Sign-on and sign-off

Sign-on and sign-off - beginning and ending of operations for a radio or television station. Article “Sign-on and sign-off” in English Wikipedia has 41.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 56 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 17.69 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Sign-on and sign-off” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sign-on and sign-off”, its content was written by 316 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 564 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2595 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2974 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2199 in April 2011
• Global: #21030 in April 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #101042 in April 2009
• Global: #77039 in July 2014

There are 8 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	German (de) Sendeschluss		47.3945
2	English (en) Sign-on and sign-off		41.2742
3	Japanese (ja) 局名告知		17.7202
4	Indonesian (id) Buka siaran dan tutup siaran		12.7075
5	Korean (ko) 정파 (방송)		12.5306
6	Chinese (zh) 开播及收播		9.4063
7	Thai (th) การปิดสถานี		3.2339
8	Dutch (nl) Zendersluiting		0.2775

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sign-on and sign-off" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sign-on and sign-off		1 120 329
2	Japanese (ja) 局名告知		320 235
3	German (de) Sendeschluss		243 131
4	Korean (ko) 정파 (방송)		10 738
5	Thai (th) การปิดสถานี		9 013
6	Chinese (zh) 开播及收播		8 988
7	Dutch (nl) Zendersluiting		6 043
8	Indonesian (id) Buka siaran dan tutup siaran		3 429

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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 "Sign-on and sign-off" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sign-on and sign-off		6 056
2	Japanese (ja) 局名告知		1 080
3	German (de) Sendeschluss		591
4	Korean (ko) 정파 (방송)		171
5	Chinese (zh) 开播及收播		132
6	Thai (th) การปิดสถานี		63
7	Dutch (nl) Zendersluiting		29
8	Indonesian (id) Buka siaran dan tutup siaran		23

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

Language versions of the article "Sign-on and sign-off" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sign-on and sign-off		316
2	Japanese (ja) 局名告知		129
3	German (de) Sendeschluss		83
4	Korean (ko) 정파 (방송)		8
5	Dutch (nl) Zendersluiting		8
6	Thai (th) การปิดสถานี		8
7	Chinese (zh) 开播及收播		8
8	Indonesian (id) Buka siaran dan tutup siaran		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 "Sign-on and sign-off" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sign-on and sign-off		3
2	Indonesian (id) Buka siaran dan tutup siaran		1
3	Korean (ko) 정파 (방송)		1
4	German (de) Sendeschluss		0
5	Japanese (ja) 局名告知		0
6	Dutch (nl) Zendersluiting		0
7	Thai (th) การปิดสถานี		0
8	Chinese (zh) 开播及收播		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 "Sign-on and sign-off" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Sign-on and sign-off		2 595
2	Japanese (ja) 局名告知		300
3	German (de) Sendeschluss		38
4	Chinese (zh) 开播及收播		24
5	Korean (ko) 정파 (방송)		10
6	Thai (th) การปิดสถานี		4
7	Dutch (nl) Zendersluiting		2
8	Indonesian (id) Buka siaran dan tutup siaran		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Sendeschluss
en	English Sign-on and sign-off
id	Indonesian Buka siaran dan tutup siaran
ja	Japanese 局名告知
ko	Korean 정파 (방송)
nl	Dutch Zendersluiting
th	Thai การปิดสถานี
zh	Chinese 开播及收播

Best Rank

English: #101042 04.2009

Global: #77039 07.2014

Best Rank

English: #2199 04.2011

Global: #21030 04.2011

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