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The Button

Summary

The Button is a subreddit[1]. It draws 196 Wikipedia views per month (subreddit category, ranking #5 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Button is the creator of Josh Wardle[3].
  • The Button's instance of is recorded as subreddit[4].
  • The Button's instance of is recorded as social experiment[5].
  • The Button's instance of is recorded as April Fools' Day joke[6].
  • The Button's developer is recorded as Josh Wardle[7].
  • The Button's depicts is recorded as button[8].
  • The Button's part of is recorded as Reddit[9].
  • +2015-04-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of The Button[10].
  • The Button was dissolved in +2015-06-05T00:00:00Z[11].
  • The Button's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0131_rkr[12].
  • The Button's organizer is recorded as Reddit[13].
  • The Button's official website is recorded as https://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton[14].
  • The Button's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit-plugin-thebutton[15].
  • The Button's number of registered users/contributors is recorded as {'amount': '+1008316'}[16].
  • The Button's subreddit is recorded as thebutton[17].
  • The Button's search formatter URL is recorded as https://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/search?q=$1&restrict_sr=1[18].

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Authorship and Creation

The Button is the creator of Josh Wardle[3].

Publication

The Button's part of is recorded as Reddit[9].

Why It Matters

The Button draws 196 Wikipedia views per month (subreddit category, ranking #5 of 14).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Reddit

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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