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Wi-Fi

family of wireless network protocols
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Summary

Wi-Fi is a certification mark[1]. Wi-Fi ranks in the top 2% of certification mark entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (35,437 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: technical standard[3], communication protocol[4]
  • Named after: wireless communication[5], fidelity[6]
  • Developer: Wi-Fi Alliance[7]
  • Subclass of: wireless network[8], computer interface[9]
  • Has use: wireless network[10]
  • Commons category: Wi-Fi[11]
  • Opposite of: No Wi-Fi[12]
  • Has part(s): Beacon frame[13]
  • Inception: September 15, 1997[14]
  • Publication date: 1998[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Wi-Fi[16]
  • Partially coincident with: wireless LAN[17]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/wifi[18]
  • Main Wikidata property: P2848[19]
  • Different from: Ethernet[20]
  • Hashtag: wifi[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]
  • P14541: ygSpx[23], 3Tm4LY[24]

Why It Matters

Wi-Fi has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Wi-Fi is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . bbc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . bbc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . webopedia.com. Retrieved . webopedia.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . 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. 58m ago · ~2026-55379-11 · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-rank:1||1 */ Hrvatska enciklopedija id: 68386"
  2. 14d ago · Back ache · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn'
    Sitelink count → 111
    Has part(s) → Beacon frame
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has part(s): Beacon frame"
  3. 4w ago · ~2026-49709-38 · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1997-09-15T00:00:00Z
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Inception: 15 September 1997"
  4. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ygSpx, 3Tm4LY
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 19w ago · ~2026-32801-04 · 2026-06-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → Beacon frame
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Has part(s): Wi-Fi jamming"
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