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Portable Game Notation

computer data format for recording chess games
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Portable Game Notation

Summary

Portable Game Notation is a file format[1]. It draws 171 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #39 of 297).[2]

Key Facts

  • Portable Game Notation's instance of is recorded as file format[3].
  • Portable Game Notation's developer is recorded as Steven James Edwards[4].
  • Portable Game Notation's subclass of is recorded as chess notation[5].
  • Portable Game Notation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01lx08[6].
  • Portable Game Notation's media type is recorded as application/vnd.chess-pgn[7].
  • Portable Game Notation's media type is recorded as application/x-chess-pgn[8].
  • Portable Game Notation's file extension is recorded as pgn[9].
  • Portable Game Notation's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://chess.stackexchange.com/tags/pgn[10].
  • Portable Game Notation's main Wikidata property is recorded as P5286[11].
  • Portable Game Notation's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'PGN'}[12].
  • Portable Game Notation's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as PGN[13].
  • Portable Game Notation's file format identification pattern is recorded as 5B4576656E742022[14].

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Designation and Status

Portable Game Notation's instance of is recorded as file format[3].

Why It Matters

Portable Game Notation draws 171 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #39 of 297).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 6 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] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . TrID. mark0.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . TrID. mark0.net. Provenance: 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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