mud

mixture of water and any combination of soil, silt, and clay
Thing general Q170449
mud
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mud

Summary

mud ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,018 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • mud is a type of clastic sediment[2].
  • mud is a type of building material[3].
  • mud is a type of mixture[4].
  • mud's Commons category is recorded as Mud[5].
  • mud's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mud[6].
  • mud's Commons gallery is recorded as Mud[7].
  • mud's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as surface=mud[8].
  • mud's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • mud's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[10].
  • mud's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[11].
  • mud's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000001[12].
  • mud's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include clastic sediment[2], building material[3], and mixture[4].

Influence

Things named for mud include February[14], a calendar month[15]; big ball of mud[16], a programming anti-pattern[17]; and Mudborne: Frog Management Sim[18], a video game[19].

Why It Matters

mud ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,018 views/month).[1] mud has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] mud is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Entities named for mud include February[14], a calendar month[15]; big ball of mud[16], a programming anti-pattern[17]; and Mudborne: Frog Management Sim[18], a video game[19].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Environment Ontology. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [14] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [18] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [15] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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 · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 Q18669
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 4w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag mud
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: mud, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289955136|mud (#289955136)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 5w ago · Chalmd · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Bbc things id 04add118-f96d-473a-9bea-018bb8d52e1d
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1617]]: 04add118-f96d-473a-9bea-018bb8d52e1d, Adding BBC Things ID"
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