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Amazon Mechanical Turk

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Summary

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a website[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,151 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: crowdsourcing[3]
  • Named after: The Turk[4]
  • Inception: November 2, 2005[5]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: September 30, 2026[6]
  • Official website: https://www.mturk.com[7]
  • Alexa rank: 6603[8]
  • Name in kana: アマゾンメカニカルターク[9]

Why It Matters

Amazon Mechanical Turk has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

Amazon Web Services website

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . historyofinformation.com. historyofinformation.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Amazon Mechanical Turk. Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/amazon-mechanical-turk
MLA “Amazon Mechanical Turk.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 17 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/amazon-mechanical-turk.
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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. 6d ago · Jugondial · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dissolved, abolished or demolished date → +2026-09-30T00:00:00Z
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 30 September 2026"
  2. 15w ago · Shisma · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Domain name → mturk.com
    Alexa rank → —
    Alexa rank → {'amount': '+6603'}
    Golden id → —
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Domain name: mturk.com, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1783157205909"
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