YouTube

Quality:

YouTube - American video-sharing platform owned by Alphabet Inc.. This website is the 1^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 4^th most popular website in German Wikipedia. Article “YouTube” in German Wikipedia has 95 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 218 references and 49 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5 points.

This article has the best quality in Vietnamese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 48^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 181^st most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 4^th most popular in websites in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2^nd most popular in all topics.

The 20^th most popular in AI.

The 1^st most popular in websites.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 260^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 50^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 324^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “YouTube” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 104 authors in all languages (324^th place).

Since the creation of article “YouTube”, its content was written by 948 registered users of German Wikipedia (181^st place) and edited by 16901 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (20^th place).

YouTube is on the 4^th place in local ranking of websites in German Wikipedia and on the 1^st place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 31551 times in German Wikipedia (115^th place) and cited 622999 times in all languages (147^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #13 in October 2006
• Global: #17 in October 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #13 in June 2008
• Global: #3 in August 2013

There are 54 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	Vietnamese (vi) YouTube		100
2	Hebrew (he) יוטיוב		100
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) YouTube		100
4	Korean (ko) 유튜브		98.6552
5	Indonesian (id) YouTube		96.8146
6	Spanish (es) YouTube		96.5973
7	English (en) YouTube		96.2492
8	German (de) YouTube		95
9	Chinese (zh) YouTube		92.198
10	Ukrainian (uk) YouTube		90.0002

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) YouTube		331 331 842
2	Russian (ru) YouTube		50 889 899
3	Spanish (es) YouTube		41 785 984
4	French (fr) YouTube		35 706 865
5	Japanese (ja) YouTube		29 884 145
6	Arabic (ar) يوتيوب		21 005 556
7	German (de) YouTube		20 916 014
8	Turkish (tr) YouTube		20 713 230
9	Portuguese (pt) YouTube		19 419 587
10	Italian (it) YouTube		16 465 755

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) YouTube		1 272 048
2	Russian (ru) YouTube		312 120
3	Japanese (ja) YouTube		80 600
4	Spanish (es) YouTube		72 480
5	French (fr) YouTube		61 160
6	German (de) YouTube		55 370
7	Italian (it) YouTube		39 050
8	Portuguese (pt) YouTube		36 020
9	Korean (ko) 유튜브		23 469
10	Turkish (tr) YouTube		21 500

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) YouTube		4 188
2	French (fr) YouTube		1 110
3	German (de) YouTube		948
4	Spanish (es) YouTube		883
5	Italian (it) YouTube		796
6	Russian (ru) YouTube		738
7	Japanese (ja) YouTube		653
8	Chinese (zh) YouTube		560
9	Polish (pl) YouTube		475
10	Hebrew (he) יוטיוב		426

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) YouTube		22
2	English (en) YouTube		16
3	Hungarian (hu) YouTube		5
4	Czech (cs) YouTube		4
5	Hindi (hi) यूट्यूब		4
6	Romanian (ro) YouTube		4
7	Russian (ru) YouTube		4
8	Chinese (zh) YouTube		4
9	Belarusian (be) YouTube		3
10	French (fr) YouTube		3

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information