Dial tone

Dial tone - Telephony signal sent by a telephone exchange or private branch exchange (PBX) to a terminating device, such as a telephone. Article “Dial tone” in English Wikipedia has 17.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.91 points.

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 “Dial tone”, its content was written by 126 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 150 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 66 times in English Wikipedia and cited 115 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6300 in April 2002
• Global: #7158 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #126999 in March 2008
• Global: #198969 in March 2008

There are 6 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	English (en) Dial tone		17.3561
2	French (fr) Tonalité d'invitation à numéroter		13.0141
3	Persian (fa) بوق آزاد		10.8949
4	Chinese (zh) 撥號音		9.5691
5	Japanese (ja) 発信音		8.9396
6	Urdu (ur) ڈائل ٹون		8.92

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Dial tone" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dial tone		883 376
2	Japanese (ja) 発信音		36 149
3	French (fr) Tonalité d'invitation à numéroter		22 771
4	Chinese (zh) 撥號音		10 834
5	Persian (fa) بوق آزاد		1 468
6	Urdu (ur) ڈائل ٹون		714

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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 "Dial tone" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dial tone		2 525
2	Japanese (ja) 発信音		187
3	Chinese (zh) 撥號音		84
4	French (fr) Tonalité d'invitation à numéroter		73
5	Persian (fa) بوق آزاد		13
6	Urdu (ur) ڈائل ٹون		11

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dial tone		126
2	French (fr) Tonalité d'invitation à numéroter		13
3	Japanese (ja) 発信音		5
4	Persian (fa) بوق آزاد		3
5	Chinese (zh) 撥號音		2
6	Urdu (ur) ڈائل ٹون		1

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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 "Dial tone" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dial tone		0
2	Persian (fa) بوق آزاد		0
3	French (fr) Tonalité d'invitation à numéroter		0
4	Japanese (ja) 発信音		0
5	Urdu (ur) ڈائل ٹون		0
6	Chinese (zh) 撥號音		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 "Dial tone" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Dial tone		66
2	French (fr) Tonalité d'invitation à numéroter		23
3	Japanese (ja) 発信音		14
4	Persian (fa) بوق آزاد		6
5	Chinese (zh) 撥號音		6
6	Urdu (ur) ڈائل ٹون		0

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#	Language	Value
en	English Dial tone
fa	Persian بوق آزاد
fr	French Tonalité d'invitation à numéroter
ja	Japanese 発信音
ur	Urdu ڈائل ٹون
zh	Chinese 撥號音

Best Rank

English: #126999 03.2008

Global: #198969 03.2008

Best Rank

English: #6300 04.2002

Global: #7158 04.2002

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