.pks

1 claimant 0 primary 1 secondary secondary-only

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.

32.1K
total occurrences
6.9K
since 2019 (21.6%)
2003–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .pks (31.1K), .PKS (1.0K) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to PLSQL — every claim across all sources (including secondary ones) points to a single language.

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

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Claimants (1)

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

Wikidata says… (3)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .pks 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
Package source file Q132641321
file format
file formatUse as new PL ↗
Panzerkrieg for Windows Scenario Q105866436
file format
file formatapplication/octet-streamUse as new PL ↗
Pksmart compressed data (v1) Q105866288
file format
file formatapplication/octet-streamUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (0)

No archived examples for .pks in our local mirror yet.

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No verbatim file with extension .pks in our local SWH mirror yet. Submit a sample-mining request and a maintainer will run swh_extension_mining.py against the live archive for this extension; samples land here once the run completes.
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