.key

0 claimants 0 primary 0 secondary

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.

4.9M
total occurrences
4.2M
since 2019 (84.6%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .key (4.9M), .Key (3.6K), .KEY (2.9K) — aggregated above.

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  1. A new GitHub issue is opened in this repo with your form contents in a structured YAML block and the label ext-review. Your GitHub login becomes the annotator; the issue's created_at is the submission timestamp.
  2. A curator script (tools/process_extension_labels.py) fetches all ext-review issues and writes their parsed contents into data/derived/extension_labels.csv with curator_status="new". Until this script runs, your submission lives only as the GitHub issue.
  3. Your submission shows up on the curator triage page (/review/curator/) under "new". Maintainers review the issue (comment, ask for clarification, accept or reject) and edit extension_labels.csv to set curator_status to accepted.
  4. For pl/<id> labels, build_pl_taxonomy.py promotes accepted labels into ext_claim.csv with source="manual_review:<your-login>" and strength="proposed". The next site rebuild then shows your claim on this extension's page and on the language's page.
  5. Friendly-name + reference-URL labels (e.g. binary:image for .png) are not promoted into ext_claim.csv (they aren't PL claims) but are surfaced on this page's "Prior labels" table so anyone landing here sees them next to the auto-detected category.

In short: submitting opens an issue (provenance), and a small ingestion pipeline turns issues into rows the site renders. The loop is currently manual (the curator script must be run by a maintainer); GitHub Actions could automate it on each new issue.

Wikidata says… (14)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .key 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.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
Apple iWork Document, version 14 Q100669457
file format
file formatUse as new PL ↗
Apple iWorks Keynote Q59537335
file format
file format; presentation documentUse as new PL ↗
DER encoded RSA private key Q28600470
file format
file formatUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (4)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.
tails-press.key · 9976 B · seen 107592× in SWH
predicted: unclassified via unknown-ext
swh:1:cnt:9d6842a844b4a20257f2220f59a93a82d291eb8d;origin=https://github.com/austin987/tails;anchor=swh:1:rev:88aa8e007b76be41fb48e7620b8d4c2f9d16f503;path=/wiki/src/tails-press.key
Open in SWH · Raw bytes
tails-accounting.key · 10788 B · seen 107592× in SWH
predicted: unclassified via unknown-ext
swh:1:cnt:16ed0bae4e31030f385ada45820a5aec1729148e;origin=https://github.com/austin987/tails;anchor=swh:1:rev:88aa8e007b76be41fb48e7620b8d4c2f9d16f503;path=/wiki/src/tails-accounting.key
Open in SWH · Raw bytes
tails-foundations.key · 4946 B · seen 66519× in SWH
predicted: unclassified via unknown-ext
swh:1:cnt:531971ae496341e8dc8f7489dbcbc81be76f150b;origin=https://github.com/austin987/tails;anchor=swh:1:rev:57158a4c2d9f5192a1aea43e795d9d0a150f7b3b;path=/wiki/src/tails-foundations.key
Open in SWH · Raw bytes
oauth-public.key · 799 B · seen 40× in SWH
predicted: unclassified via unknown-ext
swh:1:cnt:ef478310b91ddc949efb1fcb0d78766d2201a300;origin=https://github.com/unopim/unopim;anchor=swh:1:rev:971825b018aeeeff1574f31cf164399ec4045d29;path=/packages/Webkul/AdminApi/src/Secrets/Oauth/oauth-public.key
Open in SWH · Raw bytes
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