Data link layer

Data link layer - second layer of the OSI networking model. Article "Data link layer" in English Wikipedia has 24.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 11 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Data link layer", its content was written by 205 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1035 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 312 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3187 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2079 in May 2003
• Global: #5653 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #20225 in February 2015
• Global: #18475 in April 2015

There are 38 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	Portuguese (pt) Camada de enlace de dados		38.3761
2	Indonesian (id) Lapisan taut data		32.9489
3	English (en) Data link layer		24.7734
4	Japanese (ja) データリンク層		23.4408
5	Spanish (es) Capa de enlace de datos		18.7341
6	Italian (it) Livello di collegamento dati		18.7008
7	French (fr) Couche liaison de données		15.6421
8	Catalan (ca) Capa d'enllaç de dades		14.7086
9	Kazakh (kk) Арналық деңгей		13.7926
10	Arabic (ar) طبقة ربط البيانات		12.2943

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Data link layer" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Data link layer		5 646 368
2	Spanish (es) Capa de enlace de datos		1 420 915
3	Russian (ru) Канальный уровень		804 635
4	French (fr) Couche liaison de données		727 457
5	Portuguese (pt) Camada de enlace de dados		551 805
6	Japanese (ja) データリンク層		491 671
7	Italian (it) Livello di collegamento dati		411 801
8	Chinese (zh) 数据链路层		292 098
9	Indonesian (id) Lapisan taut data		221 529
10	Polish (pl) Warstwa łącza danych		207 368

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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 "Data link layer" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Data link layer		9 131
2	Spanish (es) Capa de enlace de datos		1 649
3	Russian (ru) Канальный уровень		1 197
4	French (fr) Couche liaison de données		773
5	Chinese (zh) 数据链路层		573
6	Japanese (ja) データリンク層		519
7	Portuguese (pt) Camada de enlace de dados		495
8	Italian (it) Livello di collegamento dati		390
9	Polish (pl) Warstwa łącza danych		178
10	Czech (cs) Linková vrstva		173

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Data link layer		205
2	French (fr) Couche liaison de données		99
3	Spanish (es) Capa de enlace de datos		89
4	Italian (it) Livello di collegamento dati		76
5	Dutch (nl) Datalinklaag		50
6	Russian (ru) Канальный уровень		42
7	Chinese (zh) 数据链路层		41
8	Hebrew (he) שכבת הקו של מודל ה-OSI		36
9	Portuguese (pt) Camada de enlace de dados		34
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tầng liên kết dữ liệu		33

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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 "Data link layer" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 데이터 링크 계층		1
2	Arabic (ar) طبقة ربط البيانات		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Kanal səviyyəsi		0
4	Belarusian (be) Канальны ўзровень		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Канален слой на OSI модела		0
6	Catalan (ca) Capa d'enllaç de dades		0
7	Czech (cs) Linková vrstva		0
8	Danish (da) Datalinklaget		0
9	Greek (el) Επίπεδο ζεύξης δεδομένων		0
10	English (en) Data link layer		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 "Data link layer" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Data link layer		312
2	French (fr) Couche liaison de données		297
3	Russian (ru) Канальный уровень		218
4	Catalan (ca) Capa d'enllaç de dades		199
5	Czech (cs) Linková vrstva		164
6	Japanese (ja) データリンク層		144
7	Ukrainian (uk) Канальний рівень		139
8	Italian (it) Livello di collegamento dati		130
9	Portuguese (pt) Camada de enlace de dados		110
10	Spanish (es) Capa de enlace de datos		108

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic طبقة ربط البيانات
az	Azerbaijani Kanal səviyyəsi
be	Belarusian Канальны ўзровень
bg	Bulgarian Канален слой на OSI модела
ca	Catalan Capa d'enllaç de dades
cs	Czech Linková vrstva
da	Danish Datalinklaget
el	Greek Επίπεδο ζεύξης δεδομένων
en	English Data link layer
es	Spanish Capa de enlace de datos
et	Estonian Kanalikiht
eu	Basque Lotura geruza
fa	Persian لایه پیوند داده‌ای
fr	French Couche liaison de données
he	Hebrew שכבת הקו של מודל ה-OSI
hu	Hungarian Adatkapcsolati réteg
id	Indonesian Lapisan taut data
it	Italian Livello di collegamento dati
ja	Japanese データリンク層
kk	Kazakh Арналық деңгей
ko	Korean 데이터 링크 계층
la	Latin Stratum conexionis datorum
ms	Malay Lapisan pautan data
nl	Dutch Datalinklaag
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Datalinklaget
no	Norwegian Datalink-laget
pl	Polish Warstwa łącza danych
pt	Portuguese Camada de enlace de dados
ru	Russian Канальный уровень
sh	Serbo-Croatian Sloj veze
sk	Slovak Vrstva dátového spoja
sl	Slovenian Plast podatkovne povezave
sr	Serbian Слој везе
sv	Swedish Datalänkskikt
tr	Turkish Veri bağlantısı katmanı
uk	Ukrainian Канальний рівень
vi	Vietnamese Tầng liên kết dữ liệu
zh	Chinese 数据链路层

Best Rank

English: #20225 02.2015

Global: #18475 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #2079 05.2003

Global: #5653 11.2002

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