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Active Desktop - feature of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0's optional Windows Desktop Update. This software is the 696th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 885th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “Active Desktop” in English Wikipedia has 21.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.14 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:
English Wikipedia:
Global Wikipedia:
The 696th most popular in software.

Since the creation of article “Active Desktop”, its content was written by 75 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 300 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Active Desktop is on the 885th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 696th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 102 times in English Wikipedia and cited 322 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #21805 in November 2004
  • Global: #43290 in April 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #84227 in March 2008
  • Global: #83570 in September 2008

There are 18 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
1Polish (pl)
Active Desktop
25.287
2Italian (it)
Active Desktop
22.385
3English (en)
Active Desktop
21.5843
4German (de)
Active Desktop
17.1577
5Portuguese (pt)
Active Desktop
14.5258
6Vietnamese (vi)
Active Desktop
8.2248
7Spanish (es)
Active Desktop
6.9464
8Persian (fa)
دسکتاپ فعال
6.8106
9Thai (th)
แอคทีฟเดสก์ท็อป
6.1418
10Korean (ko)
액티브 데스크톱
5.1323
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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 "Active Desktop" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Active Desktop
628 327
2Spanish (es)
Active Desktop
231 984
3German (de)
Active Desktop
120 881
4Japanese (ja)
Active Desktop
79 998
5Russian (ru)
Active Desktop
70 315
6Polish (pl)
Active Desktop
56 018
7French (fr)
Active Desktop
46 225
8Portuguese (pt)
Active Desktop
27 263
9Italian (it)
Active Desktop
18 430
10Chinese (zh)
活动桌面
17 691
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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 "Active Desktop" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Active Desktop
583
2Chinese (zh)
活动桌面
89
3Japanese (ja)
Active Desktop
67
4German (de)
Active Desktop
54
5Russian (ru)
Active Desktop
43
6Spanish (es)
Active Desktop
27
7Polish (pl)
Active Desktop
27
8Italian (it)
Active Desktop
18
9Swedish (sv)
Active Desktop
18
10French (fr)
Active Desktop
17
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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 "Active Desktop" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Active Desktop
75
2German (de)
Active Desktop
41
3French (fr)
Active Desktop
21
4Russian (ru)
Active Desktop
20
5Polish (pl)
Active Desktop
19
6Hungarian (hu)
Active Desktop
18
7Italian (it)
Active Desktop
17
8Spanish (es)
Active Desktop
16
9Chinese (zh)
活动桌面
16
10Japanese (ja)
Active Desktop
10
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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 "Active Desktop" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Active Desktop
0
2English (en)
Active Desktop
0
3Spanish (es)
Active Desktop
0
4Persian (fa)
دسکتاپ فعال
0
5French (fr)
Active Desktop
0
6Hungarian (hu)
Active Desktop
0
7Italian (it)
Active Desktop
0
8Japanese (ja)
Active Desktop
0
9Korean (ko)
액티브 데스크톱
0
10Dutch (nl)
Active Desktop
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 "Active Desktop" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Active Desktop
102
2Chinese (zh)
活动桌面
51
3Korean (ko)
액티브 데스크톱
45
4Japanese (ja)
Active Desktop
26
5Portuguese (pt)
Active Desktop
23
6Vietnamese (vi)
Active Desktop
21
7Spanish (es)
Active Desktop
11
8Italian (it)
Active Desktop
7
9Russian (ru)
Active Desktop
7
10German (de)
Active Desktop
6
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Active Desktop
enEnglish
Active Desktop
esSpanish
Active Desktop
faPersian
دسکتاپ فعال
frFrench
Active Desktop
huHungarian
Active Desktop
itItalian
Active Desktop
jaJapanese
Active Desktop
koKorean
액티브 데스크톱
nlDutch
Active Desktop
plPolish
Active Desktop
ptPortuguese
Active Desktop
ruRussian
Active Desktop
svSwedish
Active Desktop
thThai
แอคทีฟเดสก์ท็อป
trTurkish
Active Desktop
viVietnamese
Active Desktop
zhChinese
活动桌面

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#84227
03.2008 		Global:
#83570
09.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#21805
11.2004 		Global:
#43290
04.2009

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Active Desktop from Wikipedia articles about Windows 98, Windows Vista, Windows Desktop Update, Computer wallpaper and Windows Desktop Gadgets. Whereas reading the article about Active Desktop people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Windows Desktop Gadgets, Active Channel, Windows Desktop Update, PointCast and Channel Definition Format.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

en: Active Desktop
es: Active Desktop
de: Active Desktop
ja: Active Desktop
ru: Active Desktop
pl: Active Desktop
fr: Active Desktop
pt: Active Desktop
it: Active Desktop
zh: 活动桌面
ko: 액티브 데스크톱
hu: Active Desktop
nl: Active Desktop
sv: Active Desktop
vi: Active Desktop
fa: دسکتاپ فعال
tr: Active Desktop
th: แอคทีฟเดสก์ท็อป

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