Information theory

Quality:

Information theory - mathematical theory from the field of probability theory and statistics. Article "Information theory" in English Wikipedia has 63 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 50 references and 32 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In July 2024 the article "Information theory" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Information theory", its content was written by 526 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1917 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1811 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9217 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #557 in May 2001
• Global: #70 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7458 in April 2016
• Global: #5728 in April 2016

There are 51 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Information theory		63.0304
2	Greek (el) Θεωρία πληροφορίας		52.4796
3	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da informação		42.6783
4	Italian (it) Teoria dell'informazione		41.6267
5	Catalan (ca) Teoria de la informació		35.3317
6	Spanish (es) Teoría de la información		31.2377
7	Esperanto (eo) Informteorio		29.9218
8	Urdu (ur) نظریۂ اطلاعات		29.1837
9	Chinese (zh) 信息论		28.8097
10	Malay (ms) Teori maklumat		28.2941

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Information theory		5 869 564
2	Spanish (es) Teoría de la información		1 854 111
3	French (fr) Théorie de l'information		971 710
4	Russian (ru) Теория информации		674 924
5	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da informação		554 575
6	German (de) Informationstheorie		470 275
7	Japanese (ja) 情報理論		442 459
8	Italian (it) Teoria dell'informazione		377 709
9	Chinese (zh) 信息论		291 775
10	Polish (pl) Teoria informacji		229 394

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Information theory		23 306
2	Spanish (es) Teoría de la información		3 764
3	French (fr) Théorie de l'information		2 217
4	Italian (it) Teoria dell'informazione		1 956
5	Japanese (ja) 情報理論		1 875
6	Chinese (zh) 信息论		1 711
7	Russian (ru) Теория информации		1 423
8	German (de) Informationstheorie		1 408
9	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da informação		1 210
10	Persian (fa) نظریه اطلاعات		729

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Information theory		526
2	French (fr) Théorie de l'information		184
3	German (de) Informationstheorie		104
4	Italian (it) Teoria dell'informazione		98
5	Russian (ru) Теория информации		81
6	Spanish (es) Teoría de la información		76
7	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da informação		76
8	Chinese (zh) 信息论		56
9	Polish (pl) Teoria informacji		49
10	Japanese (ja) 情報理論		44

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Information theory		4
2	Italian (it) Teoria dell'informazione		3
3	Hebrew (he) תורת האינפורמציה		2
4	Georgian (ka) ინფორმაციის თეორია		2
5	Romanian (ro) Teoria informației		1
6	Russian (ru) Теория информации		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Теорія інформації		1
8	Arabic (ar) نظرية المعلومات		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) İnformasiya nəzəriyyəsi		0
10	Belarusian (be) Тэорыя інфармацыі		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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