watermill

structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process
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Summary

watermill ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,032 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: mill[2]
  • Part of: water mill building[3]
  • Commons category: Watermills[4]
  • Has part(s): hydro power machine[5]
  • Source of energy: hydropower[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Watermills[7]
  • Commons gallery: Watermill[8]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: man_made=watermill[9]
  • Described by source: Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[10], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Pauly–Wissowa[13]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox windmill[14]
  • Used by: water miller[15]
  • Main Wikidata property: P6406[16], P206[17]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Watermill[18]
  • Uses: mill race[19]
  • Has list: list of watermills[20]

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Influence

Things named for watermill include Kato Mylos[21], a community of Cyprus Republic[22], in Cyprus[23] and Palaiomylos[24], a community of Cyprus Republic[25], in Cyprus[26].

Why It Matters

watermill has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] watermill is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Entities named for watermill include Kato Mylos[21], a community of Cyprus Republic[22], in Cyprus[23] and Palaiomylos[24], a community of Cyprus Republic[25], in Cyprus[26].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  9. [10] ↑ . akp.nba.fi. Retrieved . akp.nba.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . 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. 7w ago · Pigsonthewing · 2026-08-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap key → watermill
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Openstreetmap key: watermill, Matched to #mix'n'match [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/298244019|watermill (#298244019)]] for {{P|13786}}"
  2. 10w ago · JhowieNitnek · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q6933
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14692: Q6933"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003954-vodni-mlyny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003954-vodni-mlyny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → water mill building
    Source of energy → hydropower
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → mill
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 16851, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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