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PayPal

American worldwide online payments system
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PayPal

Summary

PayPal is an e-commerce payment system[1]. PayPal draws 20,202 Wikipedia views per month (e_commerce_payment_system category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • PayPal was a member of Linux Foundation[3].
  • PayPal was a member of OpenAPI Initiative[4].
  • PayPal was a member of Internet Association[5].
  • PayPal was a member of World Wide Web Consortium[6].
  • PayPal was a member of Node.js Foundation[7].
  • PayPal was a member of FIDO Alliance[8].
  • PayPal is in the country of United States[9].
  • PayPal's instance of is recorded as e-commerce payment system[10].
  • PayPal's instance of is recorded as financial product[11].
  • PayPal's instance of is recorded as website[12].
  • PayPal's instance of is recorded as application software[13].
  • PayPal's founder is recorded as Ken Howery[14].
  • PayPal's founder is recorded as Max Levchin[15].
  • PayPal's founder is recorded as Luke Nosek[16].
  • PayPal's founder is recorded as Peter Thiel[17].
  • PayPal's founder is recorded as Yu Pan[18].
  • PayPal's founder is recorded as Elon Musk[19].
  • PayPal is operated by PayPal[20].
  • PayPal is part of Nasdaq-100[21].
  • PayPal's Commons category is recorded as PayPal[22].
  • December 1998 marks the founding of PayPal[23].
  • 1998 marks the founding of PayPal[24].
  • PayPal's official website is recorded as https://www.paypal.com/[25].
  • PayPal's topic's main category is recorded as Category:PayPal[26].
  • PayPal's described at URL is recorded as https://www.electronicpaymentsinternational.com/news/paypal-history-milestones/[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for PayPal include Pay Pal[28], a television series episode[29], directed by Michael Polcino[30] and PayPal Park[31], an association football venue[32], in United States[33], founded in 2012[34].

Why It Matters

PayPal draws 20,202 Wikipedia views per month (e_commerce_payment_system category, ranking #1 of 5).[2] PayPal has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] PayPal is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for PayPal include Pay Pal[28], a television series episode[29], directed by Michael Polcino[30] and PayPal Park[31], an association football venue[32], in United States[33], founded in 2012[34].

Related Entities

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References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [9] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [15] ↑ . electronicpaymentsinternational.com. Retrieved . electronicpaymentsinternational.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [17] ↑ . electronicpaymentsinternational.com. Retrieved . electronicpaymentsinternational.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [3] ↑ . linuxfoundation.org. Retrieved . linuxfoundation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [4] ↑ . openapis.org. Retrieved . openapis.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [5] ↑ . internetassociation.org. Retrieved . internetassociation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [6] ↑ . w3.org. Retrieved . w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [7] ↑ . foundation.nodejs.org. Retrieved . foundation.nodejs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [8] ↑ . fidoalliance.org. Retrieved . fidoalliance.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . electronicpaymentsinternational.com. Retrieved . electronicpaymentsinternational.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . electronicpaymentsinternational.com. Retrieved . electronicpaymentsinternational.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → paypal
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: paypal, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289954118|paypal (#289954118)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  2. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q12993
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48942|batch #48942]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  3. 7w ago · Iamcarbon · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Google play store app id → com.paypal.android.p2pmobile
    Official app → Q141100223
    App store app id → 283646709, 1053148887
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P3861]]: 283646709, Moving to [[Q141100223]]"
  4. 9w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at url → https://www.electronicpaymentsinternational.com/news/paypal-, https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/PYPL
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P973]]: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/PayPal, migrated to ‎[[P:P14350|P14350]] ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/752f6a15b80|details]])"
  5. 9w ago · NMaia · 2026-07-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Consumer rights wiki article id → 626
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14350]]: 626, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/297029334|PayPal (#297029334)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8142|‎Consumer Rights Wiki articl"
  6. 10w ago · Beko · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → —
    Industry → Q16319025
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P452]]: [[Q16319025]], ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/harvesttemplates/45c3307eb72c|details]])"
  7. 11w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P214]]: 155243432"
  8. 15w ago · Spiral6800 · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Logo image → Paypal.svg, PayPal logo pre-2014.svg, Pp fc hl.svg +3
    Icannwiki page id → PayPal
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P12521]]: PayPal, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/294326882|PayPal (#294326882)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8064|ICANNWiki]] #mix'n'match"
  9. 15w ago · Ziv · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Operator → —
    Tos;dr service id → —
    Country → United States
    Service status information url → —
    + 92 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P154]]: PayPal.svg, ([[c:GR|GR]]) [[c:COM:Duplicate|Duplicate]]: [[File:Pp fc hl.svg]] → [[File:PayPal.svg]] Exact or scaled-down duplicate: [[c::File:PayPal.svg]]"
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