History of the telephone

History of the telephone - aspect of history relating to telephones. Article “History of the telephone” in English Wikipedia has 83.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 78 references and 15 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.

In June 2025 the article “History of the telephone” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “History of the telephone”, its content was written by 410 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 499 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1082 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1504 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4136 in March 2018
• Global: #11328 in September 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #25083 in February 2020
• Global: #47275 in March 2022

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) History of the telephone		83.7617
2	Chinese (zh) 电话的历史		44.7158
3	Italian (it) Storia del telefono		39.8151
4	Japanese (ja) 電話の歴史		28.8423
5	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الهاتف		25.4313
6	French (fr) Histoire du téléphone		21.6379

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

The most popular language versions of the article "History of the telephone" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of the telephone		4 470 871
2	Japanese (ja) 電話の歴史		335 264
3	French (fr) Histoire du téléphone		214 374
4	Chinese (zh) 电话的历史		115 804
5	Italian (it) Storia del telefono		10 168
6	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الهاتف		6 913

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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 "History of the telephone" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of the telephone		13 696
2	Japanese (ja) 電話の歴史		2 230
3	Chinese (zh) 电话的历史		1 137
4	Italian (it) Storia del telefono		931
5	French (fr) Histoire du téléphone		386
6	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الهاتف		74

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History of the telephone		410
2	French (fr) Histoire du téléphone		50
3	Japanese (ja) 電話の歴史		22
4	Italian (it) Storia del telefono		8
5	Chinese (zh) 电话的历史		6
6	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الهاتف		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 "History of the telephone" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History of the telephone		5
2	Italian (it) Storia del telefono		2
3	Japanese (ja) 電話の歴史		2
4	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الهاتف		0
5	French (fr) Histoire du téléphone		0
6	Chinese (zh) 电话的历史		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 "History of the telephone" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) History of the telephone		1 082
2	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الهاتف		147
3	Japanese (ja) 電話の歴史		123
4	Chinese (zh) 电话的历史		98
5	French (fr) Histoire du téléphone		45
6	Italian (it) Storia del telefono		9

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تاريخ الهاتف
en	English History of the telephone
fr	French Histoire du téléphone
it	Italian Storia del telefono
ja	Japanese 電話の歴史
zh	Chinese 电话的历史

Best Rank

English: #25083 02.2020

Global: #47275 03.2022

Best Rank

English: #4136 03.2018

Global: #11328 09.2016

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