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`.markdown`

2 claimants 1 primary 1 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.

8.3M

total occurrences

1.3M

since 2019 (15.7%)

1970–2023

years active

Case variants in archive: .markdown (8.3M), .MARKDOWN (1.8K), .mARkdown (1.7K), .Markdown (1.5K), .MarkDown (512), .markDown (21), .MaRkDoWn (12), .marKdown (5), .markdOWN (4), .mArKdoWn (2), .MArkdown (2) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to markdown as primary by 1 authoritative claim.

Authoritative sources: △ Linguist · secondary △ Pygments · secondary ✓ Wikidata · Q1193600 ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (4)

Languages that list .markdown among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.

Language	Source	Strength
markdown	wikidata	primary
gcc-machine-description	pygments	secondary
markdown	linguist	secondary
markdown	pygments	secondary

SWH-mined examples (1)

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.

2013-02-17-impact-of-heroku-routing-mesh-and-random-routing.markdown · 7301 B · seen 1341× in SWH

predicted: unclassified via fallback

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