Universally unique identifier

Quality:

Universally Unique Identifier - 128-bit number used to identify information in computer systems. Article “Universally unique identifier” in English Wikipedia has 62.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 64 references and 18 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 “Universally unique identifier” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Universally unique identifier”, its content was written by 575 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1052 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 182 times in English Wikipedia and cited 506 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3202 in March 2003
• Global: #6562 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3142 in July 2018
• Global: #6752 in July 2018

There are 20 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) Universally unique identifier		62.5606
2	Catalan (ca) Identificador únic universal		58.6585
3	Chinese (zh) 通用唯一识别码		54.5336
4	German (de) Universally Unique Identifier		44.8413
5	Arabic (ar) المعرف الفريد العالمي		41.3922
6	French (fr) Universally unique identifier		32.2899
7	Japanese (ja) UUID		29.2009
8	Russian (ru) UUID		23.1685
9	Norwegian (no) Universell unik identifikator		21.7971
10	Dutch (nl) Universally unique identifier		17.3877

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Universally unique identifier		11 171 633
2	German (de) Universally Unique Identifier		1 501 257
3	Russian (ru) UUID		839 424
4	Japanese (ja) UUID		757 225
5	Chinese (zh) 通用唯一识别码		513 213
6	French (fr) Universally unique identifier		468 382
7	Spanish (es) Identificador único universal		347 354
8	Portuguese (pt) Identificador único universal		143 332
9	Korean (ko) 범용 고유 식별자		128 323
10	Italian (it) Universally unique identifier		121 976

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) Universally unique identifier		25 300
2	Russian (ru) UUID		3 135
3	German (de) Universally Unique Identifier		3 014
4	Japanese (ja) UUID		2 612
5	French (fr) Universally unique identifier		1 581
6	Chinese (zh) 通用唯一识别码		1 384
7	Spanish (es) Identificador único universal		718
8	Portuguese (pt) Identificador único universal		314
9	Czech (cs) Univerzální unikátní identifikátor		234
10	Italian (it) Universally unique identifier		231

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Universally unique identifier		575
2	German (de) Universally Unique Identifier		141
3	French (fr) Universally unique identifier		104
4	Russian (ru) UUID		49
5	Chinese (zh) 通用唯一识别码		42
6	Spanish (es) Identificador único universal		23
7	Japanese (ja) UUID		21
8	Italian (it) Universally unique identifier		20
9	Czech (cs) Univerzální unikátní identifikátor		14
10	Portuguese (pt) Identificador único universal		13

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) Universally unique identifier		8
2	German (de) Universally Unique Identifier		3
3	Arabic (ar) المعرف الفريد العالمي		2
4	French (fr) Universally unique identifier		2
5	Czech (cs) Univerzální unikátní identifikátor		1
6	Turkish (tr) Evrensel olarak benzersiz tanımlayıcı		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Global unikal identifikator		0
8	Catalan (ca) Identificador únic universal		0
9	Spanish (es) Identificador único universal		0
10	Estonian (et) Universaalne unikaalne identifikaator		0

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

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