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whaling

hunting of whales
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whaling
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Summary

whaling is an industry[1]. whaling ranks in the top 4% of industry entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,110 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: fishing[3]
  • Commons category: Whaling[4]
  • Archives at: International Institute of Social History[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Whaling[6]
  • Commons gallery: Whaling[7]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[10]
  • Practiced by: whaler[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Animal heritage[13]

Why It Matters

whaling has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] whaling is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

International Institute of Social History

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → whaling
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: whaling, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289971297|whaling (#289971297)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004354-velrybarstvi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004354-velrybarstvi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Animal heritage
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → fishing
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 19805, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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