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retaining wall

structure designed to confine and support soil laterally so that it can be retained on unnatural slopes
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retaining wall

Summary

retaining wall ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (478 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • retaining wall is a type of wall[2].
  • retaining wall's Commons category is recorded as Retaining walls[3].
  • retaining wall's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as barrier=retaining_wall[4].

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Definition and Type

retaining wall is a type of wall[2].

Why It Matters

retaining wall ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (478 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[5] It is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[6]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . 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. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q6904
    "/* 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. 6w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C8514
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P10381]]: C8514, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  3. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0378003-operne-zdi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0378003-operne-zdi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259473|batch #259473]]"
  4. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → wall
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007533910205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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