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volume
volume of a book or music release in a collection/series or a published collection of journal issues in a serial publication

Description	Volume of a publication, like a scientific journal or one specific book of a collection/series
Represents	volume (Q1238720)
Data type	String
Template parameter	en:Template:Cite_journal
Domain	Volume of a book in a collection/serie, volume of a scientific article, ... (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Allowed values	According to this template: Use string datatype in order to be able to use latin number (I, II, III,...) or complex numbering like AI, A2, 2-1,... According to statements in the property: When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Example	Principia Mathematica II (Q62092410) → 2 On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (Q3020388) → 322 Now That's What I Call Music (Q7065737) → 1 no label (Q117377742) → XLIV
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P478 (Q98110184)
See also	edition number (P393), issue (P433), series ordinal (P1545), number of parts of this work (P2635)
Lists	Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Database reports/Constraint violations/P478 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	[not applicable Proposal discussion]
Current uses	Total 37,731,625 Main statement 36,872,500 97.7% of uses Qualifier 823,470 2.2% of uses Reference 35,655 <0.1% of uses

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Qualifiers “object named as (P1932), follows (P155), followed by (P156), reason for deprecated rank (P2241), reason for preferred rank (P7452), object has role (P3831), subject named as (P1810)”: this property should be used only with the listed qualifiers. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P478#allowed qualifiers, SPARQL

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200), Wikibase lexeme (Q51885771), Wikibase MediaInfo (Q59712033), Wikibase sense (Q54285715), Wikibase form (Q54285143): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P478#Entity types

Scope is as qualifier (Q54828449), as main value (Q54828448), as reference (Q54828450): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P478#Scope, SPARQL

This property is being used by: s:ru:Шаблон:Остатье en:Template:Cite Q, en:Template:Academic-written review/testcases ilo:Plantilia:Cite Q ja:Template:Cite Q hi:साँचा:सन्दर्भ विकिडाटा sl:Predloga:Navedi Q nn:Mal:Kjelde på Wikidata cy:Nodyn:Cite Q d:Template:Cite Q da:Skabelon:Cite Q v:en:Template:Cite Q tr:Şablon:Q kaynağı gl:Modelo:Academic-written review/uso Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

See also: Wikidata:Periodicals task force

Use this property only as a qualifier

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John Vandenberg Aubrey Daniel Mietchen DarTar Maximilianklein Mvolz Andy Mabbett Mattsenate TomT0m JakobVoss Mahdimoqri Jsamwrites Dig.log Sic19 Andreasmperu Pete F 99of9 Mfchris84 Runner1928 Jneubert Juandev VIGNERON Uomovariabile SilentSpike Ecritures Tfrancart Dick Bos Rdmpage Clifford Anderson Parobis1 Susanna Giaccai Zblace Alessandra.Moi ArthurPSmith Alessandra Boccone Erfurth Mgrenci EthanRobertLee Sandbergja Aliyu shaba Walter Klosse Tommasopaiano Dr. Gogami TiagoLubiana (talk) 21:35, 30 December 2021 (UTC) Metacladistics Maxime Skim Reboot01 Strakhov Barrett Golding (Iffy.news)

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I thought this property should be used only as a qualifier, but I noticed a lot of items (even the property examples) use it as as a "real" property. Is it correct?--Malore (talk) 21:39, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Where do you see that it's only meant to be used as a qualifier? It's certainly not so anywhere on the page... Circeus (talk) 12:01, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Why should it be limited to a qualifier? It's present in every journal article item. It should also be "okay" to use it on references, e.g. an encyclopedia with 90 volumes that may not all have their own Wikidata items (think Who's Who (Q2567271) or The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (Q7753168). Of course the Wikidata purist would demand a dedicated item for every section in a book, but most humans don't got time for that. -Animalparty (talk) 04:03, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Spanish name

In Spanish it should be "volumen" because "tomo" means a different type (intellectual) of division. But volume as quantity (P2234) already uses it. Does someone know a fix for it? Mauricio V. Genta (talk) 03:58, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Double numbers

Apparently it's not possible to use 7/8 as double number for a journal, at least I get a warning at Q107345800. However it's quite common for Dutch journals to have a double numbers for a volume. The notation is as it published in the said journal. Roelof Hendrickx (talk) 18:24, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

@Roelof Hendrickx: It's a very good point.You can use 7-8, but it's not the same as 7/8, right? AmarilisMGC (talk) 16:36, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Correct, that's not the same. Using 7-8 means published in two separate issues. While 7/8 means it is one issue, usually with more pages that a regular issue. Roelof Hendrickx (talk) 19:44, 24 November 2021 (UTC)