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, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 7 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Circuit switching", its content was written by 132 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 540 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1216 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2659 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4732 in April 2002
• Global: #5602 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #37193 in November 2009
• Global: #45615 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, 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	Polish (pl) Komutacja kanałów		22.8502
2	Catalan (ca) Commutació de circuits		20.7892
3	Arabic (ar) تبديل الدارات		20.2822
4	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển mạch kênh		19.3532
5	English (en) Circuit switching		18.7176
6	Basque (eu) Zirkuituen kommutazio		17.2951
7	Ukrainian (uk) Мережа з комутацією каналів		14.8211
8	French (fr) Commutation de circuits		12.0799
9	Czech (cs) Přepojování okruhů		11.1887
10	Romanian (ro) Comutație de circuite		11.1767

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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		2 854 878
2	Spanish (es) Conmutación de circuitos		311 197
3	Portuguese (pt) Comutação de circuitos		206 668
4	German (de) Leitungsvermittlung		186 792
5	Polish (pl) Komutacja kanałów		179 467
6	French (fr) Commutation de circuits		173 219
7	Japanese (ja) 回線交換		155 045
8	Indonesian (id) Pengalihan sirkuit		145 475
9	Russian (ru) Коммутация каналов		120 038
10	Chinese (zh) 电路交换		118 928

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Circuit switching		3 559
2	Russian (ru) Коммутация каналов		238
3	Chinese (zh) 电路交换		221
4	Spanish (es) Conmutación de circuitos		171
5	Japanese (ja) 回線交換		141
6	German (de) Leitungsvermittlung		127
7	French (fr) Commutation de circuits		119
8	Polish (pl) Komutacja kanałów		119
9	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển mạch kênh		101
10	Korean (ko) 회선 교환		96

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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		132
2	French (fr) Commutation de circuits		54
3	German (de) Leitungsvermittlung		50
4	Dutch (nl) Circuitgeschakeld netwerk		32
5	Vietnamese (vi) Chuyển mạch kênh		30
6	Chinese (zh) 电路交换		25
7	Spanish (es) Conmutación de circuitos		21
8	Hebrew (he) מיתוג מעגלים		19
9	Polish (pl) Komutacja kanałów		19
10	Finnish (fi) Piirikytkentä		17

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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 2025

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

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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		1 216
2	Japanese (ja) 回線交換		200
3	Korean (ko) 회선 교환		184
4	Arabic (ar) تبديل الدارات		172
5	Persian (fa) مدارگزینی		169
6	Chinese (zh) 电路交换		134
7	French (fr) Commutation de circuits		79
8	Malay (ms) Pensuisan litar		75
9	German (de) Leitungsvermittlung		54
10	Czech (cs) Přepojování okruhů		48

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#	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: #37193 11.2009

Global: #45615 11.2009

Best Rank

English: #4732 04.2002

Global: #5602 03.2002

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