Circuit switching

Circuit switching - digital network implementation in which two nodes establish a dedicated channel through the network before they communicate. Article “Circuit switching” in English Wikipedia has 18.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.98 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Circuit switching”, its content was written by 133 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 550 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1202 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2817 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4734 in April 2002
• Global: #5587 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #37409 in November 2009
• Global: #45816 in November 2009

There are 28 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Portuguese (pt) Comutação de circuitos		31.0688
2	Polish (pl) Komutacja kanałów		21.9557
3	Catalan (ca) Commutació de circuits		20.8231
4	Arabic (ar) تبديل الدارات		20.1838
5	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển mạch kênh		19.3438
6	English (en) Circuit switching		18.6809
7	Basque (eu) Zirkuituen kommutazio		17.2007
8	Ukrainian (uk) Мережа з комутацією каналів		14.5402
9	Korean (ko) 회선 교환		13.2426
10	French (fr) Commutation de circuits		12.0472

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Circuit switching" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Circuit switching		2 879 521
2	Spanish (es) Conmutación de circuitos		313 497
3	Portuguese (pt) Comutação de circuitos		207 971
4	German (de) Leitungsvermittlung		188 636
5	Polish (pl) Komutacja kanałów		180 766
6	French (fr) Commutation de circuits		175 084
7	Japanese (ja) 回線交換		157 075
8	Indonesian (id) Pengalihan sirkuit		145 695
9	Russian (ru) Коммутация каналов		126 543
10	Chinese (zh) 电路交换		121 088

More...

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 "Circuit switching" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Circuit switching		1 389
2	Russian (ru) Коммутация каналов		133
3	German (de) Leitungsvermittlung		119
4	Chinese (zh) 电路交换		104
5	French (fr) Commutation de circuits		100
6	Japanese (ja) 回線交換		91
7	Polish (pl) Komutacja kanałów		80
8	Portuguese (pt) Comutação de circuitos		73
9	Spanish (es) Conmutación de circuitos		63
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển mạch kênh		44

More...

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Circuit switching		133
2	French (fr) Commutation de circuits		54
3	German (de) Leitungsvermittlung		52
4	Dutch (nl) Circuitgeschakeld netwerk		32
5	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển mạch kênh		31
6	Chinese (zh) 电路交换		26
7	Spanish (es) Conmutación de circuitos		21
8	Polish (pl) Komutacja kanałów		20
9	Hebrew (he) מיתוג מעגלים		19
10	Finnish (fi) Piirikytkentä		17

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Circuit switching" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) تبديل الدارات		1
2	Basque (eu) Zirkuituen kommutazio		1
3	Catalan (ca) Commutació de circuits		0
4	Czech (cs) Přepojování okruhů		0
5	German (de) Leitungsvermittlung		0
6	Greek (el) Μεταγωγή κυκλώματος		0
7	English (en) Circuit switching		0
8	Spanish (es) Conmutación de circuitos		0
9	Persian (fa) مدارگزینی		0
10	Finnish (fi) Piirikytkentä		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Circuit switching" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Circuit switching		1 202
2	Korean (ko) 회선 교환		219
3	Japanese (ja) 回線交換		201
4	Arabic (ar) تبديل الدارات		181
5	Persian (fa) مدارگزینی		169
6	Chinese (zh) 电路交换		145
7	Portuguese (pt) Comutação de circuitos		133
8	French (fr) Commutation de circuits		80
9	Malay (ms) Pensuisan litar		76
10	Ukrainian (uk) Мережа з комутацією каналів		57

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تبديل الدارات
ca	Catalan Commutació de circuits
cs	Czech Přepojování okruhů
de	German Leitungsvermittlung
el	Greek Μεταγωγή κυκλώματος
en	English Circuit switching
es	Spanish Conmutación de circuitos
eu	Basque Zirkuituen kommutazio
fa	Persian مدارگزینی
fi	Finnish Piirikytkentä
fr	French Commutation de circuits
he	Hebrew מיתוג מעגלים
id	Indonesian Pengalihan sirkuit
ja	Japanese 回線交換
ko	Korean 회선 교환
ms	Malay Pensuisan litar
nl	Dutch Circuitgeschakeld netwerk
no	Norwegian Linjesvitsjing
pl	Polish Komutacja kanałów
pt	Portuguese Comutação de circuitos
ro	Romanian Comutație de circuite
ru	Russian Коммутация каналов
sv	Swedish Kretskopplade nätverk
th	Thai การสวิตช์วงจร
tr	Turkish Devre anahtarlama
uk	Ukrainian Мережа з комутацією каналів
vi	Vietnamese Chuyển mạch kênh
zh	Chinese 电路交换

Best Rank

English: #37409 11.2009

Global: #45816 11.2009

Best Rank

English: #4734 04.2002

Global: #5587 03.2002

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information