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Global Handwashing Day

campaign to motivate and mobilize people around the world to improve their handwashing habits
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Global Handwashing Day
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Global Handwashing Day

Summary

Global Handwashing Day is a world day[1]. It draws 60 Wikipedia views per month (world_day category, ranking #47 of 248).[2]

Key Facts

  • Global Handwashing Day's image is recorded as Global Handwashing Day (emblem).svg[3].
  • Global Handwashing Day's instance of is recorded as world day[4].
  • Global Handwashing Day's Commons category is recorded as Global handwashing Day[5].
  • Global Handwashing Day's commemorates is recorded as hand washing[6].
  • +2008-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Global Handwashing Day[7].
  • Global Handwashing Day's start time is recorded as +2008-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Global Handwashing Day's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04n1r7l[9].
  • Global Handwashing Day's day in year for periodic occurrence is recorded as October 15[10].
  • Global Handwashing Day's official website is recorded as https://globalhandwashing.org/[11].
  • Global Handwashing Day's main subject is recorded as hand washing[12].
  • Global Handwashing Day's WikiProjectMed ID is recorded as Global Handwashing Day[13].

Why It Matters

Global Handwashing Day draws 60 Wikipedia views per month (world_day category, ranking #47 of 248).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . globalhandwashing.org. globalhandwashing.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . globalhandwashing.org. globalhandwashing.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . globalhandwashing.org. globalhandwashing.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . globalhandwashing.org. globalhandwashing.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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