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West Nile virus

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West Nile virus

Summary

West Nile virus is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.45% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33,157 views/month, #877 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • West Nile virus's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • West Nile virus is classified at the rank of species[4].
  • West Nile virus's scientific name is West Nile virus[5].
  • West Nile virus's Commons category is recorded as West Nile virus[6].
  • West Nile virus's Commons gallery is recorded as West Nile virus[7].
  • West Nile virus's replaced by is recorded as Orthoflavivirus nilense[8].
  • West Nile virus's has effect is recorded as West Nile fever[9].
  • West Nile virus's studied by is recorded as infectious diseases[10].
  • West Nile virus's studied by is recorded as virology[11].
  • West Nile virus's ICTV virus genome composition is recorded as positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus[12].
  • West Nile virus's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Zika Corpus[13].
  • West Nile virus's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[14].
  • West Nile virus's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Invasion Biology[15].
  • West Nile virus's P14541 is recorded as LXg3M[16].

Body

Classification

West Nile virus's scientific name is West Nile virus[5]. It is classified at the rank of species[4].

Identifiers

West Nile virus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 11082[17]. West Nile virus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46700515[18]. West Nile virus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 10070245[19].

Why It Matters

West Nile virus ranks in the top 0.45% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33,157 views/month, #877 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

infectious diseases Mira Furlan Yann Tiersen

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ICTV Master Species List 2013 v2. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . ICTV Master Species List 2013 v2. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [17] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . ICTV Master Species List 2016 v1.3. wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . 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 · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'ca', 'commons', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'fa',
    Gnd id → 4682734-1
    Sitelink count → 42
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 27d ago · Brya · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Flavivirus, Arbovirus group B
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P171]]: [[Q69814491]]"
  3. 4w ago · Brya · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Replaced by → Orthoflavivirus nilense
    Store medisinske leksikon id → vestnilvirus
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1366]]: [[Q118455487]]"
  4. 6w ago · Dugnad · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i42357
    Store medisinske leksikon id → vestnilvirus
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P5082]]: vestnilvirus"
  5. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 01335581-n
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P8814]]: 01335581-n"
  6. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → LXg3M
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  7. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Flavivirus, Arbovirus group B
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007558895305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
  8. 21w ago · FoeNyx · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Library of congress authority id → sh2002008949
    Parent taxon → Flavivirus, Arbovirus group B
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P171]]: [[Q118438368]]"
  9. 22w ago · ~2026-27376-21 · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → species
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Invasion Biology
    Studied by → infectious diseases, virology
    Aliases → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P244]]: sh2002008949;kljimkmijk"
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