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text file

Summary

text file is a file format[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of file_format entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • text file's instance of is recorded as file format[3].
  • text file is a type of electronic document[4].
  • text file is a type of plain text[5].
  • text file is a type of computer file[6].
  • text file's Commons category is recorded as Plain text[7].
  • text file's said to be the same as is recorded as .txt file[8].
  • text file is the opposite of binary file[9].
  • text file is the opposite of graphic file[10].
  • text file comprises plain text[11].
  • text file's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Plain text[12].
  • text file's media type is recorded as text/plain[13].
  • text file's file extension is recorded as txt[14].
  • text file's file extension is recorded as text[15].
  • text file's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/text-files[16].
  • text file's has characteristic is recorded as character encoding[17].
  • text file's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/TextDigitalDocument[18].
  • text file's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/T4FS_0000233[19].
  • text file's equivalent class is recorded as https://www.webkb.org/doc/RDF/phOntology.rdfs#TextualFile[20].
  • text file's different from is recorded as plain text[21].
  • text file's different from is recorded as plaintext[22].
  • text file's uses is recorded as textual data format[23].
  • text file's exact match is recorded as http://rs.tdwg.org/format/values/m019[24].

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Designation and Status

text file's instance of is recorded as file format[3].

Why It Matters

text file ranks in the top 7% of file_format entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 89 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . file-types.com. file-types.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Q141624432. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Controlled Vocabulary for Dublin Core format. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22h ago Β· عُثمان Β· 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata β†—
    Equivalent class β†’ https://schema.org/TextDigitalDocument, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/T4FS_0000233, https://www.webkb.org/doc/RDF/phOntology.rdfs#TextualFile
    Claims rich β†’ β€”
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: https://www.webkb.org/doc/RDF/phOntology.rdfs#TextualFile"
  2. 1d ago Β· Kinsio Β· 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata β†—
    Subclass of β†’ electronic document, plain text, computer file
    Sitelink count β†’ 42
    Wikipedia languages β†’ ['af', 'ar', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', '
    Claims rich β†’ β€”
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q694975]]"
  3. 7d ago Β· عُثمان Β· 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata β†—
    Equivalent class β†’ https://schema.org/TextDigitalDocument, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/T4FS_0000233, https://www.webkb.org/doc/RDF/phOntology.rdfs#TextualFile
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/T4FS_0000233"
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