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weathering

breaking down of rocks, soil and minerals as well as artificial materials through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, biota and waters
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Summary

weathering ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,288 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Influenced by: ocean acidification[2]
  • Subclass of: transformation[3], pedologic process[4], destruction[5]
  • Commons category: Weathering[6]
  • Applies to part: water[7], calcium carbonate[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Weathering[9]
  • Commons gallery: Weathering[10]
  • Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[12]
  • Has effect: erosion[13], smoothness[14], limestone[15]
  • Destroyed: artificial object[16], soil[17], rock[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19]
  • P14541: 1Ko1yM[20], f87Yc[21]

Why It Matters

weathering has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] weathering is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . 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. 11d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 68
    Environment ontology id → 06105119
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'as', 'ast', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bew', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'commons',
    Harper's tag → weathering
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Environment ontology id: 06105119, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143356884|weathering (#143356884)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5484|Environment Ont"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1Ko1yM, f87Yc
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004488-zvetravani
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004488-zvetravani, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 18w ago · O Breixo · 2026-06-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 152321
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Enciclopedia galega universal id: 152321"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has effect → erosion, smoothness, limestone
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2336263
    Aliases → —
    Influenced by → ocean acidification
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 10485, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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