publisher

person heading a publishing company or who publishes media
Intangible profession Q2516866
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Summary

publisher is a profession[1]. publisher has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: occupation[3], position[4]
  • Subclass of: media proprietor[5], publisher[6]
  • Commons category: Publishers[7]
  • Field of this occupation: publishing[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Publishers (people)[9]
  • Partially coincident with: publication manager[10]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox publisher[11]
  • Main Wikidata property: P123[12]
  • Different from: editor[13], publishing house[14], publisher[15]
  • Female form of label: ناشرة[16], editora[17], vydavatelka[18], Verlegerin[19], εκδότρια[20], eldonistino[21], éditrice[22], מוציאה לאור[23], editrice[24], uitgeefster[25], editoare[26], založnica[27], видавниця[28], издательница[29]
  • Male form of label: Verleger[30], מוציא לאור[31], editor[32], издатель[33], éditeur[34], editore[35], založnik[36], leidėjas[37], ناشر[38]

Why It Matters

publisher is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 1585, 6508, 5262 +4
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 1778, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327287|Publisher (#7327287)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 1585, 6508, 5262 +4
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 5262, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7330292|Publisher (#7330292)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 1585, 6508, 5262 +4
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'da', 'de', 'eo', 'et', 'fr', 'it', 'ja', 'ln', 'nl', 'no', 'ru', 'sk', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 1585, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327160|publisher (#7327160)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  4. 7w ago · Tiziana Deluca · 2026-08-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bncf thesaurus id → 8289
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Bncf thesaurus id: 8289"
  5. 12w ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Male form of label → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Verleger'}, {'lang': 'he', 'text': 'מוציא לאור'}, {'lang': 'pt-br', 'text': 'editor'} +7
    Svkkl authority id → 0358555-nakladatelky-a-vydavatelky, 0225595-nakladatele-a-vydavatele
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Male form of label: editor"
  6. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0358555-nakladatelky-a-vydavatelky, 0225595-nakladatele-a-vydavatele
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0358555-nakladatelky-a-vydavatelky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259576|batch #259576]]"
  7. 21w ago · Stuartyeates · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox publisher
    Topic's main category → Category:Publishers (people)
    Instance of → —
    Partially coincident with → publication manager
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Library of congress authority id: sh85108871"
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