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Wayland

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Wayland

Summary

Wayland is a communication protocol[1]. Wayland ranks in the top 3% of communication_protocol entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,527 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wayland's instance of is recorded as communication protocol[3].
  • Wayland's instance of is recorded as windowing system[4].
  • Wayland is named after Wayland[5].
  • Wayland's developer is recorded as Kristian Høgsberg[6].
  • Wayland's developer is recorded as Q310917[7].
  • Wayland's copyright license is recorded as MIT License[8].
  • Wayland's programmed in is recorded as Q15777[9].
  • Wayland's software version identifier is recorded as 1.22.0[10].
  • Wayland's software version identifier is recorded as 1.22.91[11].
  • Wayland's software version identifier is recorded as 1.23.0[12].
  • Wayland's software version identifier is recorded as 1.23.1[13].
  • Wayland's software version identifier is recorded as 1.24.0[14].
  • Wayland's software version identifier is recorded as 1.25[15].
  • Wayland is part of Q310917[16].
  • Wayland is used for display server[17].
  • Wayland's Commons category is recorded as Wayland[18].
  • Wayland comprises Wayland compositor[19].
  • 2008 marks the founding of Wayland[20].
  • Wayland's official website is recorded as https://wayland.freedesktop.org/[21].
  • Wayland's source code repository URL is recorded as https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland[22].
  • Wayland's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/wayland[23].
  • Wayland's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://askubuntu.com/tags/wayland[24].
  • Wayland's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/wayland[25].
  • Wayland's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://superuser.com/tags/wayland[26].
  • Wayland's IRC channel URL is recorded as irc://irc.freenode.net/#wayland[27].

Body

Publication

Wayland is part of Q310917[16].

Why It Matters

Wayland ranks in the top 3% of communication_protocol entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,527 views/month).[2] Wayland has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Wayland is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Kristian Høgsberg libwayland wayland-ivi-extension

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . arstechnica.com. arstechnica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . hoegsberg.blogspot.com. Retrieved . hoegsberg.blogspot.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . phoronix.com. Retrieved . phoronix.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . lists.freedesktop.org. Retrieved . lists.freedesktop.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . lists.freedesktop.org. lists.freedesktop.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . lists.freedesktop.org. Retrieved . lists.freedesktop.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . lists.freedesktop.org. Retrieved . lists.freedesktop.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . lore.freedesktop.org. Retrieved . lore.freedesktop.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . lore.freedesktop.org. Retrieved . lore.freedesktop.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . gitlab.freedesktop.org. Retrieved . gitlab.freedesktop.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · APTEM · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Reply to → X.Org Server
    Developer → Kristian Høgsberg, Q310917
    Official website → https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
    Part of → Q310917
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P18]]: Weston 10.0 screenshot.png"
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