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Wubi

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Wubi was established in 2008 . It is a creative work designed to facilitate the input of Chinese characters using a keyboard-based method. The system maps Chinese characters to combinations of keystrokes based on their structural components . Wubi remains in use among typists seeking high-speed Chinese input without reliance on phonetic systems .

Wubi

Summary

Wubi is a free software[1]. Wubi ranks in the top 9% of free_software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wubi's image is recorded as Wubi screenshot.png[3].
  • Wubi's instance of is recorded as free software[4].
  • Wubi's logo image is recorded as Wubi-logo-text.svg[5].
  • Wubi's copyright license is recorded as GNU General Public License, version 2.0[6].
  • Wubi's programmed in is recorded as Q2407[7].
  • Wubi's programmed in is recorded as Python[8].
  • Wubi's operating system is recorded as Microsoft Windows[9].
  • Wubi's software version identifier is recorded as 12.04[10].
  • Wubi's has use is recorded as Q381[11].
  • Wubi's Commons category is recorded as Wubi[12].
  • Wubi's platform is recorded as Microsoft Windows[13].
  • +2008-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Wubi[14].
  • Wubi's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02pwl6m[15].
  • Wubi's official website is recorded as http://wubi.sourceforge.net/[16].
  • Wubi's official website is recorded as http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/windows-installer[17].
  • Wubi's source code repository URL is recorded as https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/wubi[18].
  • Wubi's issue tracker URL is recorded as https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi[19].
  • Wubi's SourceForge project is recorded as wubi[20].
  • Wubi's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19637312[21].
  • Wubi's Launchpad.net project ID is recorded as wubi[22].
  • Wubi's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[23].

Why It Matters

Wubi ranks in the top 9% of free_software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2] Wubi has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Wubi is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . SourceForge. Retrieved . sourceforge.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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