.sci

1 claimant 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.

174.2K
total occurrences
12.0K
since 2019 (6.9%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .sci (173.9K), .SCI (345), .Sci (1) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Scilab; Scilab as primary by 2 authoritative claims.

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

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Claimants (2)

Languages that list .sci among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
Scilablinguistprimary
Scilabpygmentsprimary

Wikidata says… (5)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .sci 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
ColoRIX Q28205846
file format
file formatUse as new PL ↗
ColoRIX bitmap Q105858530
file format
file formatapplication/octet-streamUse as new PL ↗
Scidb game data Q105852642
file format
file formatapplication/octet-streamUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (2)

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.
AST_ReadASTHeader.sci · 2479 B · seen 93× in SWH
predicted: Scilab via unique-primary
swh:1:cnt:7a52b1f26606b67f1f056a639ebb59cea03b2d3c;origin=https://github.com/siddhu8990/Scilab2C;anchor=swh:1:rev:6a320264c2de3d6dd8cc1d1327b3c30df4c8cb26;path=/2.3-1/macros/ASTManagement/AST_ReadASTHeader.sci
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AST_HandleEOL.sci · 2990 B · seen 46× in SWH
predicted: Scilab via unique-primary
swh:1:cnt:0f55457e88ca45f50d3e9b159c7a759def331ec8;origin=https://github.com/FOSSEE-Internship/Scilab2C-Ashish-;anchor=swh:1:rev:6a320264c2de3d6dd8cc1d1327b3c30df4c8cb26;path=/2.3-1/macros/ASTManagement/AST_HandleEOL.sci
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