writer

person who uses written words to communicate ideas and to produce literary works
Intangible profession Q36180
writer
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writer

Summary

writer is a profession[1]. writer ranks in the top 9% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,810 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • writer's instance of is recorded as profession[3].
  • writer's instance of is recorded as occupation[4].
  • writer is a type of author[5].
  • writer is a type of artist[6].
  • writer is a type of penman[7].
  • writer's Commons category is recorded as Writers[8].
  • writer's field of this occupation is recorded as writing[9].
  • writer's field of this occupation is recorded as book signing[10].
  • writer's said to be the same as is recorded as Scribe[11].
  • writer's Unicode character is recorded as ✍️[12].
  • writer's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Writers[13].
  • writer's ISCO-88 occupation class is recorded as 2451[14].
  • writer's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15].
  • writer's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[16].
  • writer's partially coincident with is recorded as homme de lettres[17].
  • writer's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox writer[18].
  • writer's topic has template is recorded as Template:Writer-stub[19].
  • writer's main Wikidata property is recorded as P50[20].
  • writer's main Wikidata property is recorded as P2093[21].
  • writer's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Writer[22].
  • writer's different from is recorded as author[23].
  • writer's different from is recorded as penman[24].
  • writer's has list is recorded as lists of writers[25].
  • writer's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'كاتبة'}[26].
  • writer's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'escritora'}[27].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include profession[3] and occupation[4]. Recorded subclass of include author[5], artist[6], and penman[7].

Why It Matters

writer ranks in the top 9% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,810 views/month).[2] writer has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] writer is known by 106 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. 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. 16d ago · JhealdBatch · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Esco occupation id b06a1dde-e5a1-4219-9491-2bedd0282e4b
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33289|batch #33289]]: ESCO occupations, matched in OpenRefine (#4)"
  2. 26d ago · Stuartyeates · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Library of congress authority id sh85009793
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P244]]: sh85009793"
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