Descriptive notation

Descriptive notation - notation for recording chess games. Article “Descriptive notation” in English Wikipedia has 41.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 8 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Descriptive notation”, its content was written by 83 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 211 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 558 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1016 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1202 in August 2002
• Global: #2593 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19755 in October 2019
• Global: #44809 in October 2019

There are 13 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	English (en) Descriptive notation		41.5602
2	Kazakh (kk) Сипаттамалық нотация		22.9129
3	Portuguese (pt) Notação descritiva de xadrez		13.7537
4	Spanish (es) Notación descriptiva		13.3065
5	Russian (ru) Описательная нотация		11.6396
6	French (fr) Notation descriptive		9.1814
7	Dutch (nl) Engelse beschrijvende notatie		8.4385
8	Italian (it) Notazione descrittiva		7.3533
9	Greek (el) Περιγραφική σκακιστική γραφή		6.7145
10	Catalan (ca) Notació descriptiva		3.926

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Descriptive notation" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Descriptive notation		887 445
2	Spanish (es) Notación descriptiva		270 858
3	Portuguese (pt) Notação descritiva de xadrez		55 672
4	French (fr) Notation descriptive		33 630
5	Italian (it) Notazione descrittiva		20 409
6	Dutch (nl) Engelse beschrijvende notatie		12 712
7	Greek (el) Περιγραφική σκακιστική γραφή		12 579
8	Russian (ru) Описательная нотация		7 360
9	Slovenian (sl) Opisna notacija		4 458
10	Catalan (ca) Notació descriptiva		3 646

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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 "Descriptive notation" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Descriptive notation		1 797
2	Spanish (es) Notación descriptiva		147
3	French (fr) Notation descriptive		104
4	Portuguese (pt) Notação descritiva de xadrez		63
5	Russian (ru) Описательная нотация		58
6	Italian (it) Notazione descrittiva		36
7	Dutch (nl) Engelse beschrijvende notatie		35
8	Greek (el) Περιγραφική σκακιστική γραφή		16
9	Catalan (ca) Notació descriptiva		10
10	Slovenian (sl) Opisna notacija		7

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Descriptive notation		83
2	French (fr) Notation descriptive		28
3	Spanish (es) Notación descriptiva		23
4	Italian (it) Notazione descrittiva		16
5	Dutch (nl) Engelse beschrijvende notatie		13
6	Greek (el) Περιγραφική σκακιστική γραφή		12
7	Portuguese (pt) Notação descritiva de xadrez		11
8	Catalan (ca) Notació descriptiva		10
9	Slovenian (sl) Opisna notacija		7
10	Korean (ko) 설명기보법		3

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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 "Descriptive notation" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) تأشير وصفي		0
2	Catalan (ca) Notació descriptiva		0
3	Greek (el) Περιγραφική σκακιστική γραφή		0
4	English (en) Descriptive notation		0
5	Spanish (es) Notación descriptiva		0
6	French (fr) Notation descriptive		0
7	Italian (it) Notazione descrittiva		0
8	Kazakh (kk) Сипаттамалық нотация		0
9	Korean (ko) 설명기보법		0
10	Dutch (nl) Engelse beschrijvende notatie		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 "Descriptive notation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Descriptive notation		558
2	Arabic (ar) تأشير وصفي		161
3	Korean (ko) 설명기보법		157
4	Greek (el) Περιγραφική σκακιστική γραφή		65
5	French (fr) Notation descriptive		17
6	Catalan (ca) Notació descriptiva		14
7	Spanish (es) Notación descriptiva		12
8	Portuguese (pt) Notação descritiva de xadrez		11
9	Italian (it) Notazione descrittiva		7
10	Slovenian (sl) Opisna notacija		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تأشير وصفي
ca	Catalan Notació descriptiva
el	Greek Περιγραφική σκακιστική γραφή
en	English Descriptive notation
es	Spanish Notación descriptiva
fr	French Notation descriptive
it	Italian Notazione descrittiva
kk	Kazakh Сипаттамалық нотация
ko	Korean 설명기보법
nl	Dutch Engelse beschrijvende notatie
pt	Portuguese Notação descritiva de xadrez
ru	Russian Описательная нотация
sl	Slovenian Opisna notacija

Best Rank

English: #19755 10.2019

Global: #44809 10.2019

Best Rank

English: #1202 08.2002

Global: #2593 08.2002

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