Metcalfesches Gesetz

Metcalfe's law - empirical rule that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of its number of users. Article “Metcalfesches Gesetz” in German Wikipedia has 29.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.57 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “Metcalfesches Gesetz”, its content was written by 59 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 562 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16 times in German Wikipedia and cited 214 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1007 in July 2003
• Global: #3168 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #41845 in April 2018
• Global: #68636 in February 2021

There are 26 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Metcalfe's law		38.7681
2	Esperanto (eo) Leĝo de Metcalfe		31.152
3	German (de) Metcalfesches Gesetz		29.864
4	Ukrainian (uk) Закон Меткалфа		29.37
5	Dutch (nl) Wet van Metcalfe		28.7331
6	Hebrew (he) חוק מטקלף		26.9293
7	Greek (el) Νόμος του Μέτκαλφ		24.1131
8	French (fr) Loi de Metcalfe		20.9284
9	Polish (pl) Prawo Metcalfe’a		18.5136
10	Catalan (ca) Llei de Metcalfe		16.501

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Metcalfesches Gesetz" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metcalfe's law		1 849 017
2	Spanish (es) Ley de Metcalfe		168 549
3	Japanese (ja) メトカーフの法則		129 823
4	French (fr) Loi de Metcalfe		127 162
5	German (de) Metcalfesches Gesetz		123 533
6	Chinese (zh) 梅特卡夫定律		117 569
7	Russian (ru) Закон Меткалфа		98 620
8	Italian (it) Legge di Metcalfe		60 956
9	Portuguese (pt) Lei de Metcalfe		46 944
10	Dutch (nl) Wet van Metcalfe		30 486

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Metcalfesches Gesetz" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Metcalfe's law		4 659
2	German (de) Metcalfesches Gesetz		368
3	Japanese (ja) メトカーフの法則		307
4	Chinese (zh) 梅特卡夫定律		305
5	French (fr) Loi de Metcalfe		246
6	Spanish (es) Ley de Metcalfe		227
7	Russian (ru) Закон Меткалфа		190
8	Italian (it) Legge di Metcalfe		161
9	Korean (ko) 메칼프의 법칙		128
10	Polish (pl) Prawo Metcalfe’a		92

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Metcalfesches Gesetz" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Metcalfe's law		179
2	German (de) Metcalfesches Gesetz		59
3	French (fr) Loi de Metcalfe		39
4	Italian (it) Legge di Metcalfe		31
5	Dutch (nl) Wet van Metcalfe		26
6	Russian (ru) Закон Меткалфа		25
7	Danish (da) Metcalfes lov		21
8	Spanish (es) Ley de Metcalfe		21
9	Japanese (ja) メトカーフの法則		18
10	Catalan (ca) Llei de Metcalfe		15

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Metcalfesches Gesetz" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Metcalfe's law		1
2	Finnish (fi) Metcalfen laki		1
3	Arabic (ar) قانون متكالف		0
4	Catalan (ca) Llei de Metcalfe		0
5	Czech (cs) Metcalfův zákon		0
6	Danish (da) Metcalfes lov		0
7	German (de) Metcalfesches Gesetz		0
8	Greek (el) Νόμος του Μέτκαλφ		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Leĝo de Metcalfe		0
10	Spanish (es) Ley de Metcalfe		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Metcalfesches Gesetz" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Metcalfe's law		56
2	French (fr) Loi de Metcalfe		18
3	German (de) Metcalfesches Gesetz		16
4	Korean (ko) 메칼프의 법칙		12
5	Arabic (ar) قانون متكالف		10
6	Japanese (ja) メトカーフの法則		10
7	Spanish (es) Ley de Metcalfe		9
8	Persian (fa) قانون متکالف		8
9	Italian (it) Legge di Metcalfe		8
10	Hebrew (he) חוק מטקלף		7

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قانون متكالف
ca	Catalan Llei de Metcalfe
cs	Czech Metcalfův zákon
da	Danish Metcalfes lov
de	German Metcalfesches Gesetz
el	Greek Νόμος του Μέτκαλφ
en	English Metcalfe's law
eo	Esperanto Leĝo de Metcalfe
es	Spanish Ley de Metcalfe
eu	Basque Metcalferen legea
fa	Persian قانون متکالف
fi	Finnish Metcalfen laki
fr	French Loi de Metcalfe
he	Hebrew חוק מטקלף
it	Italian Legge di Metcalfe
ja	Japanese メトカーフの法則
ko	Korean 메칼프의 법칙
nl	Dutch Wet van Metcalfe
no	Norwegian Metcalfes lov
pl	Polish Prawo Metcalfe’a
pt	Portuguese Lei de Metcalfe
ro	Romanian Legea lui Metcalfe
ru	Russian Закон Меткалфа
sv	Swedish Metcalfes lag
uk	Ukrainian Закон Меткалфа
zh	Chinese 梅特卡夫定律

Best Rank

German: #41845 04.2018

Global: #68636 02.2021

Best Rank

German: #1007 07.2003

Global: #3168 07.2003

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