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Language documentation

Quality:

Language documentation - subfield of linguistics which aims to document human languages. Article "Language documentation" in English Wikipedia has 31.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 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 language version.

Since the creation of article "Language documentation", its content was written by 33 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 64 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 255 times in English Wikipedia and cited 355 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #81822 in January 2018
  • Global: #171209 in June 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #413870 in November 2018
  • Global: #694273 in November 2018

There are 10 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Language documentation
31.0623
2Esperanto (eo)
Lingvodokumentado
25.9646
3Swedish (sv)
Språkdokumentation
25.3994
4Ukrainian (uk)
Документальна лінгвістика
22.6794
5Portuguese (pt)
Documentação linguística
21.002
6Catalan (ca)
Documentació lingüística
19.4471
7Spanish (es)
Documentación de la lengua
14.6522
8French (fr)
Documentation linguistique
13.618
9Chinese (zh)
語言檔案編制
4.1107
10Tamil (ta)
மொழி ஆவணப்படுத்தல்
0.1921
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Language documentation" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Language documentation
130 809
2Chinese (zh)
語言檔案編制
6 679
3Spanish (es)
Documentación de la lengua
4 595
4French (fr)
Documentation linguistique
3 148
5Ukrainian (uk)
Документальна лінгвістика
2 111
6Catalan (ca)
Documentació lingüística
741
7Tamil (ta)
மொழி ஆவணப்படுத்தல்
698
8Swedish (sv)
Språkdokumentation
464
9Esperanto (eo)
Lingvodokumentado
174
10Portuguese (pt)
Documentação linguística
157
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Language documentation" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Language documentation
1 177
2French (fr)
Documentation linguistique
24
3Chinese (zh)
語言檔案編制
24
4Portuguese (pt)
Documentação linguística
15
5Esperanto (eo)
Lingvodokumentado
13
6Spanish (es)
Documentación de la lengua
12
7Catalan (ca)
Documentació lingüística
7
8Swedish (sv)
Språkdokumentation
6
9Tamil (ta)
மொழி ஆவணப்படுத்தல்
6
10Ukrainian (uk)
Документальна лінгвістика
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Language documentation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Language documentation
33
2Ukrainian (uk)
Документальна лінгвістика
6
3French (fr)
Documentation linguistique
5
4Catalan (ca)
Documentació lingüística
4
5Spanish (es)
Documentación de la lengua
4
6Esperanto (eo)
Lingvodokumentado
3
7Tamil (ta)
மொழி ஆவணப்படுத்தல்
3
8Chinese (zh)
語言檔案編制
3
9Portuguese (pt)
Documentação linguística
2
10Swedish (sv)
Språkdokumentation
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Language documentation" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Portuguese (pt)
Documentação linguística
1
2Catalan (ca)
Documentació lingüística
0
3English (en)
Language documentation
0
4Esperanto (eo)
Lingvodokumentado
0
5Spanish (es)
Documentación de la lengua
0
6French (fr)
Documentation linguistique
0
7Swedish (sv)
Språkdokumentation
0
8Tamil (ta)
மொழி ஆவணப்படுத்தல்
0
9Ukrainian (uk)
Документальна лінгвістика
0
10Chinese (zh)
語言檔案編制
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Language documentation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Language documentation
255
2Chinese (zh)
語言檔案編制
59
3French (fr)
Documentation linguistique
13
4Catalan (ca)
Documentació lingüística
9
5Esperanto (eo)
Lingvodokumentado
5
6Swedish (sv)
Språkdokumentation
5
7Spanish (es)
Documentación de la lengua
4
8Portuguese (pt)
Documentação linguística
3
9Tamil (ta)
மொழி ஆவணப்படுத்தல்
1
10Ukrainian (uk)
Документальна лінгвістика
1
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Documentació lingüística
enEnglish
Language documentation
eoEsperanto
Lingvodokumentado
esSpanish
Documentación de la lengua
frFrench
Documentation linguistique
ptPortuguese
Documentação linguística
svSwedish
Språkdokumentation
taTamil
மொழி ஆவணப்படுத்தல்
ukUkrainian
Документальна лінгвістика
zhChinese
語言檔案編制

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#413870
11.2018
Global:
#694273
11.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#81822
01.2018
Global:
#171209
06.2014

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Language documentation from Wikipedia articles about Language revitalization, Glottolog, Endangered language, Linguistics and Language documentation tools and methods. Whereas reading the article about Language documentation people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Language documentation tools and methods, FirstVoices, Language revitalization, Descriptive linguistics and Language.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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