Mu-law algorithm

μ-law algorithm - audio companding algorithm. Article “Mu-law algorithm” in English Wikipedia has 32.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.71 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 “Mu-law algorithm”, its content was written by 92 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 228 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 432 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1398 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1889 in March 2002
• Global: #2294 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #88468 in March 2009
• Global: #111619 in February 2008

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) Mu-law algorithm		32.4884
2	Turkish (tr) U-kanunu algoritması		32.3217
3	Estonian (et) U-seaduse algoritm		30.1873
4	Spanish (es) Ley Mu		22.4476
5	Serbian (sr) Μ-law алгоритам		14.8393
6	Japanese (ja) Μ-lawアルゴリズム		12.1272
7	Catalan (ca) Llei Mu		10.6143
8	French (fr) Loi µ		5.4376
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thuật toán luật μ		4.6385
10	Korean (ko) 뮤 법칙 알고리즘		3.6405

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Mu-law algorithm" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mu-law algorithm		1 194 774
2	Spanish (es) Ley Mu		127 844
3	Japanese (ja) Μ-lawアルゴリズム		121 737
4	German (de) Μ-law		87 805
5	Russian (ru) Мю-закон		54 724
6	French (fr) Loi µ		31 391
7	Korean (ko) 뮤 법칙 알고리즘		11 674
8	Catalan (ca) Llei Mu		10 803
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thuật toán luật μ		8 843
10	Serbian (sr) Μ-law алгоритам		871

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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 "Mu-law algorithm" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mu-law algorithm		1 943
2	Spanish (es) Ley Mu		175
3	Japanese (ja) Μ-lawアルゴリズム		126
4	French (fr) Loi µ		120
5	German (de) Μ-law		57
6	Russian (ru) Мю-закон		54
7	Catalan (ca) Llei Mu		23
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thuật toán luật μ		11
9	Korean (ko) 뮤 법칙 알고리즘		7
10	Turkish (tr) U-kanunu algoritması		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 "Mu-law algorithm" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mu-law algorithm		92
2	German (de) Μ-law		43
3	Russian (ru) Мю-закон		20
4	Spanish (es) Ley Mu		18
5	Catalan (ca) Llei Mu		14
6	French (fr) Loi µ		12
7	Japanese (ja) Μ-lawアルゴリズム		8
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thuật toán luật μ		8
9	Estonian (et) U-seaduse algoritm		5
10	Serbian (sr) Μ-law алгоритам		4

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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 "Mu-law algorithm" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Llei Mu		0
2	German (de) Μ-law		0
3	English (en) Mu-law algorithm		0
4	Spanish (es) Ley Mu		0
5	Estonian (et) U-seaduse algoritm		0
6	French (fr) Loi µ		0
7	Japanese (ja) Μ-lawアルゴリズム		0
8	Korean (ko) 뮤 법칙 알고리즘		0
9	Russian (ru) Мю-закон		0
10	Serbian (sr) Μ-law алгоритам		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 "Mu-law algorithm" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Mu-law algorithm		432
2	Japanese (ja) Μ-lawアルゴリズム		248
3	Korean (ko) 뮤 법칙 알고리즘		231
4	Ukrainian (uk) Мю-закон		150
5	French (fr) Loi µ		140
6	Russian (ru) Мю-закон		91
7	Catalan (ca) Llei Mu		54
8	German (de) Μ-law		23
9	Spanish (es) Ley Mu		14
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thuật toán luật μ		10

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Llei Mu
de	German Μ-law
en	English Mu-law algorithm
es	Spanish Ley Mu
et	Estonian U-seaduse algoritm
fr	French Loi µ
ja	Japanese Μ-lawアルゴリズム
ko	Korean 뮤 법칙 알고리즘
ru	Russian Мю-закон
sr	Serbian Μ-law алгоритам
tr	Turkish U-kanunu algoritması
uk	Ukrainian Мю-закон
vi	Vietnamese Thuật toán luật μ

Best Rank

English: #88468 03.2009

Global: #111619 02.2008

Best Rank

English: #1889 03.2002

Global: #2294 03.2002

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