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right to repair

legal right for owners of devices and equipment to freely modify and repair products
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right to repair

Summary

right to repair ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,859 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • right to repair is a type of proposed legislation[2].
  • right to repair is a type of rights[3].
  • right to repair is the opposite of planned obsolescence[4].
  • right to repair's has effect is recorded as reverse engineering[5].
  • right to repair's hashtag is recorded as RightToRepair[6].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include proposed legislation[2] and rights[3]. right to repair is the opposite of planned obsolescence[4].

Why It Matters

right to repair ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,859 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . eff.org. eff.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . 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. 29d ago · Jsamwrites · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Iate entry id → 3588476
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P11662]]: 3588476, Matched to #mix'n'match [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/178701571|right to repair (#178701571)]] for {{P|11662}}"
  2. 9w ago · Sadads · 2026-07-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Consumer rights wiki article id → 119
    Opposite of → planned obsolescence
    Aliases → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14350]]: 119, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/297029523|Right to repair (#297029523)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8142|‎Consumer Rights Wi"
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