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virology

scientific study of biological viruses
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Summary

virology is a branch of biology[1]. virology draws 2,425 Wikipedia views per month (branch of biology category, ranking #20 of 72).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: microbiology[3]
  • Commons category: Virology[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Virology[5]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11[6]
  • Topic has template: Template:Virus topics[7]
  • Practiced by: virologist[8]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Zika Corpus[9], WikiProject COVID-19[10]
  • P10203: 2406[11]

Why It Matters

virology has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] virology is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . All Science Journal Classification Codes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 8w ago · O Breixo · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 199137
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Enciclopedia galega universal id: 199137"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2vXrhZ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/41251|batch #41251]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → virology
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: virology, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289967212|virology (#289967212)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004753-virologie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004753-virologie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Zika Corpus, WikiProject COVID-19
    Subclass of → microbiology
    Instance of → branch of biology
    Practiced by → virologist
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 14570, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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