ruins

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ruins

Summary

ruins ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,404 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ruins is a type of architectural structure[2].
  • ruins is a type of Überrest[3].
  • ruins's Commons category is recorded as Ruins[4].
  • ruins's has cause is recorded as architectural structure[5].
  • ruins's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ruins[6].
  • ruins's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as historic=ruins[7].
  • ruins's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as building=ruins[8].
  • ruins's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[9].
  • ruins's different from is recorded as ruinous[10].
  • ruins's different from is recorded as derelict building or structure[11].
  • ruins's different from is recorded as ruins[12].
  • ruins's state of conservation is recorded as ruinous[13].
  • ruins's P14692 is recorded as Colombian Championship 1994[14].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include architectural structure[2] and Überrest[3].

Influence

Things named for ruins include The Ruins of Athens[15], a musical work/composition[16], founded in 1811[17] and ruin marble[18].

Why It Matters

ruins ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,404 views/month).[1] ruins has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] ruins is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Entities named for ruins include The Ruins of Athens[15], a musical work/composition[16], founded in 1811[17] and ruin marble[18].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . 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. 29d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX556478
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX556478"
  2. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Colombian Championship 1994
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Biljana Plavšić
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q26769, Import ID Biblissima V2 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/74d891b831c|details]])"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0005584-zriceniny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0005584-zriceniny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259473|batch #259473]]"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap tag → historic=ruins, building=ruins
    Has cause → architectural structure
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Ruins
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 14172, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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