ActivityPub

Summary

ActivityPub is an open standard^[1]. ActivityPub draws 159 Wikipedia views per month (open_standard category, ranking #6 of 17).^[2]

Key Facts

• ActivityPub authored Christine Lemmer-Webber^[3].
• ActivityPub authored Evan Prodromou^[4].
• ActivityPub's image is recorded as ActivityPub-tutorial-image.png^[5].
• ActivityPub's instance of is recorded as open standard^[6].
• ActivityPub's instance of is recorded as computer network protocol^[7].
• ActivityPub's instance of is recorded as W3C Recommendation^[8].
• ActivityPub's instance of is recorded as guideline^[9].
• ActivityPub's logo image is recorded as ActivityPub-logo.svg^[10].
• ActivityPub's developer is recorded as World Wide Web Consortium^[11].
• ActivityPub's software version identifier is recorded as 2017^[12].
• ActivityPub's software version identifier is recorded as 2016-01-28^[13].
• ActivityPub's software version identifier is recorded as 23.01.2018^[14].
• ActivityPub's Commons category is recorded as ActivityPub^[15].
• +2016-01-28T00:00:00Z marks the founding of ActivityPub^[16].
• ActivityPub's publication date is recorded as +2018-01-23T00:00:00Z^[17].
• ActivityPub's official website is recorded as https://activitypub.rocks/^[18].
• ActivityPub's topic's main category is recorded as Category:ActivityPub^[19].
• ActivityPub's work available at URL is recorded as https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/^[20].
• ActivityPub's media type is recorded as application/activity+json^[21].
• ActivityPub's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/w3c/activitypub^[22].
• ActivityPub's replaces is recorded as OStatus^[23].
• ActivityPub's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'ActivityPub'}^[24].
• ActivityPub's used by is recorded as Mastodon^[25].
• ActivityPub's used by is recorded as Q50938515^[26].
• ActivityPub's used by is recorded as Nextcloud^[27].

Body

Authorship and Creation

Authored works include Christine Lemmer-Webber^[3], a software engineer^[28], b. 1984^[29], of United States^[30] and Evan Prodromou^[4], an engineer^[31], b. 1968^[32], of United States^[33], awarded the O'Reilly Open Source Award^[34].

Publication

ActivityPub's publication date is recorded as +2018-01-23T00:00:00Z^[17].

Why It Matters

ActivityPub draws 159 Wikipedia views per month (open_standard category, ranking #6 of 17).^[2] ActivityPub has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[35]