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metasyntactic variable

Summary

metasyntactic variable ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (219 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • metasyntactic variable's subclass of is recorded as placeholder name[2].
  • metasyntactic variable's subclass of is recorded as identifier[3].
  • metasyntactic variable's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/050zy[4].
  • metasyntactic variable's Quora topic ID is recorded as Metasyntactic-Variables[5].
  • metasyntactic variable's P6009 is recorded as 14466[6].
  • metasyntactic variable's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 119359676[7].
  • metasyntactic variable's FOLDOC ID is recorded as metasyntactic+variable[8].
  • metasyntactic variable's ComputerLanguage.com definition is recorded as metasyntactic+variable[9].

Why It Matters

metasyntactic variable ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (219 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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