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cosplay

Summary

cosplay is a hobby[1]. cosplay ranks in the top 5% of hobby entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,187 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • cosplay's instance of is recorded as hobby[3].
  • cosplay is a type of live action role-playing game[4].
  • cosplay's Commons category is recorded as Cosplay[5].
  • cosplay's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cosplay[6].
  • cosplay's Commons gallery is recorded as Cosplay[7].
  • cosplay's topic has template is recorded as Template:Cosplay[8].
  • cosplay's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://anime.stackexchange.com/tags/cosplay[9].
  • cosplay's main Wikidata property is recorded as P13593[10].
  • cosplay's main Wikidata property is recorded as P13632[11].
  • cosplay's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'costume play'}[12].
  • cosplay's hashtag is recorded as cosplay[13].
  • cosplay's practiced by is recorded as cosplayer[14].

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Definition and Type

cosplay's instance of is recorded as hobby[3]. cosplay is a type of live action role-playing game[4].

Why It Matters

cosplay ranks in the top 5% of hobby entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,187 views/month).[2] cosplay has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] cosplay is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . 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] ↑ . twitter.com. Retrieved . twitter.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → cosplayer
    Twitch tag id → 2ffd5c3e-b927-4749-ba53-79d3b626b2da
    Topic has template → Template:Cosplay
    Instance of → hobby
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 20742, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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