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Understanding Media

Quality:

Understanding Media - 1964 essay by Marshall McLuhan. This book is the 3827th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Understanding Media” in German Wikipedia has 44.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 3827th 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 241 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Understanding Media is on the 3827th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 17 times in German Wikipedia and cited 134 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #5444 in August 2009
  • Global: #75255 in December 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #131826 in January 2015
  • Global: #139102 in July 2017

There are 8 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Understanding Media
58.4879
2German (de)
Understanding Media
44.8603
3Catalan (ca)
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
23.9124
4Simple English (simple)
Understanding Media
18.2096
5French (fr)
Pour comprendre les médias
16.3076
6Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
11.1104
7Persian (fa)
درک رسانه‌ها
8.4178
8Italian (it)
Gli strumenti del comunicare
2.8788
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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
1 038 029
2Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
124 642
3German (de)
Understanding Media
112 273
4French (fr)
Pour comprendre les médias
95 773
5Italian (it)
Gli strumenti del comunicare
46 017
6Simple English (simple)
Understanding Media
5 583
7Persian (fa)
درک رسانه‌ها
4 914
8Catalan (ca)
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
855
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Understanding Media" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Understanding Media
3 801
2Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
342
3Simple English (simple)
Understanding Media
332
4Italian (it)
Gli strumenti del comunicare
323
5French (fr)
Pour comprendre les médias
240
6German (de)
Understanding Media
218
7Persian (fa)
درک رسانه‌ها
27
8Catalan (ca)
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
10
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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
103
2German (de)
Understanding Media
57
3French (fr)
Pour comprendre les médias
39
4Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
23
5Italian (it)
Gli strumenti del comunicare
9
6Catalan (ca)
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
5
7Persian (fa)
درک رسانه‌ها
4
8Simple English (simple)
Understanding Media
1
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Understanding Media" with the highest AI in June 2025
#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
7Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
0
8Simple 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
64
2Russian (ru)
Понимание медиа
19
3German (de)
Understanding Media
17
4French (fr)
Pour comprendre les médias
14
5Persian (fa)
درک رسانه‌ها
9
6Italian (it)
Gli strumenti del comunicare
4
7Simple English (simple)
Understanding Media
4
8Catalan (ca)
Comprendre els mitjans de comunicació
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
ruRussian
Понимание медиа
simpleSimple English
Understanding Media

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#131826
01.2015
Global:
#139102
07.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#5444
08.2009
Global:
#75255
12.2018

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Understanding Media from Wikipedia articles about The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan, Global village, The Medium Is the Massage and Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. 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, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Umberto Eco.

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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