.abc
2 claimants
1 primary
0 secondary
unambiguous primary
SWH popularity
From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.
297.8K
total occurrences
157.0K
since 2019 (52.7%)
1970–2023
years active
Case variants in archive: .abc (296.8K), .ABC (978), .Abc (5) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to alembic as primary by 1 authoritative claim.
Authoritative sources: ✗ Linguist · no claim ✗ Pygments · no claim ✓ Wikidata · Q795136 △ Wikipedia · secondary
Claimants (2)
Languages that list
.abc among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| alembic | wikidata | primary |
| Clean | wikipedia | proposed |
Wikidata says… (7)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim
.abc on Wikidata
(property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox.
Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv.
Click Use as new PL on any row to open the
Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata
URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
| Format | Class (Wikidata P31) | Suggested label | MIME | Notes | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alembic Q795136 file format | file format | — | — | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| ABC FlowCharter document Q105854747 file format | file format | — | application/octet-stream | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| ABC notation (old) Q105853653 file format | file format | — | text/vnd.abc | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .abc in our local mirror yet.