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Understanding Media

Quality:

Understanding Media - 1964 essay by Marshall McLuhan. This book is the 3907th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Understanding Media” in German Wikipedia has 44.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 3907th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Understanding Media”, its content was written by 57 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 250 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Understanding Media is on the 3907th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 14 times in German Wikipedia and cited 127 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #5575 in August 2009
  • Global: #75403 in December 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #131629 in January 2015
  • Global: #139575 in July 2017

There are 9 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, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

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

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Understanding Media
55.3359
2German (de)
Understanding Media
44.4026
3Catalan (ca)
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
24.0005
4Korean (ko)
미디어의 이해
19.5647
5Simple English (simple)
Understanding Media
17.8952
6French (fr)
Pour comprendre les médias
16.2693
7Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
11.1215
8Persian (fa)
درک رسانه‌ها
8.3584
9Italian (it)
Gli strumenti del comunicare
2.906
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Understanding Media" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Understanding Media
1 087 423
2Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
132 911
3German (de)
Understanding Media
115 147
4French (fr)
Pour comprendre les médias
99 471
5Italian (it)
Gli strumenti del comunicare
48 873
6Simple English (simple)
Understanding Media
5 475
7Persian (fa)
درک رسانه‌ها
5 179
8Catalan (ca)
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
926
9Korean (ko)
미디어의 이해
245
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Understanding Media" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Understanding Media
3 310
2French (fr)
Pour comprendre les médias
218
3Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
208
4Italian (it)
Gli strumenti del comunicare
194
5German (de)
Understanding Media
156
6Korean (ko)
미디어의 이해
57
7Simple English (simple)
Understanding Media
29
8Persian (fa)
درک رسانه‌ها
21
9Catalan (ca)
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
6
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Understanding Media" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Understanding Media
106
2German (de)
Understanding Media
57
3French (fr)
Pour comprendre les médias
41
4Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
24
5Italian (it)
Gli strumenti del comunicare
9
6Catalan (ca)
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
5
7Persian (fa)
درک رسانه‌ها
4
8Korean (ko)
미디어의 이해
2
9Simple English (simple)
Understanding Media
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Understanding Media" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Catalan (ca)
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
0
2German (de)
Understanding Media
0
3English (en)
Understanding Media
0
4Persian (fa)
درک رسانه‌ها
0
5French (fr)
Pour comprendre les médias
0
6Italian (it)
Gli strumenti del comunicare
0
7Korean (ko)
미디어의 이해
0
8Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
0
9Simple English (simple)
Understanding Media
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Understanding Media" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Understanding Media
63
2Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
18
3German (de)
Understanding Media
14
4French (fr)
Pour comprendre les médias
11
5Persian (fa)
درک رسانه‌ها
7
6Catalan (ca)
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
4
7Italian (it)
Gli strumenti del comunicare
4
8Korean (ko)
미디어의 이해
3
9Simple English (simple)
Understanding Media
3
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
deGerman
Understanding Media
enEnglish
Understanding Media
faPersian
درک رسانه‌ها
frFrench
Pour comprendre les médias
itItalian
Gli strumenti del comunicare
koKorean
미디어의 이해
ruRussian
Понимание медиа
simpleSimple English
Understanding Media

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#131629
01.2015
Global:
#139575
07.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#5575
08.2009
Global:
#75403
12.2018

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Understanding Media from Wikipedia articles about The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Global village and The Medium Is the Massage. Whereas reading the article about Understanding Media people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Marshall McLuhan, The medium is the message, McGraw-Hill Education, Media studies and Means of communication.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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