Variable-length code

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Variable-length code

Quality:

Variable-length code - information theory technique for assigning shorter encoding sequences to more frequently-occurring represented elements. Article “Variable-length code” in English Wikipedia has 18.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Variable-length code”, its content was written by 42 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 60 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 63 times in English Wikipedia and cited 106 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #133631 in February 2016
  • Global: #181825 in October 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #238539 in April 2015
  • Global: #399166 in December 2011

There are 4 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
1Chinese (zh)
可变长度编码
19.0548
2English (en)
Variable-length code
18.5732
3Japanese (ja)
可変長符号
7.7176
4French (fr)
Code à longueur variable
1.8874
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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 "Variable-length code" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Variable-length code
447 286
2French (fr)
Code à longueur variable
15 588
3Japanese (ja)
可変長符号
13 063
4Chinese (zh)
可变长度编码
2 544
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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 "Variable-length code" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Variable-length code
1 112
2Japanese (ja)
可変長符号
125
3Chinese (zh)
可变长度编码
84
4French (fr)
Code à longueur variable
32
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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 "Variable-length code" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Variable-length code
42
2French (fr)
Code à longueur variable
10
3Chinese (zh)
可变长度编码
7
4Japanese (ja)
可変長符号
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 "Variable-length code" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Variable-length code
0
2French (fr)
Code à longueur variable
0
3Japanese (ja)
可変長符号
0
4Chinese (zh)
可变长度编码
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 "Variable-length code" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Variable-length code
63
2Japanese (ja)
可変長符号
20
3French (fr)
Code à longueur variable
12
4Chinese (zh)
可变长度编码
11
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Variable-length code
frFrench
Code à longueur variable
jaJapanese
可変長符号
zhChinese
可变长度编码

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#238539
04.2015
Global:
#399166
12.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#133631
02.2016
Global:
#181825
10.2023

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Variable-length code from Wikipedia articles about Huffman coding, Prefix code, LEB128, Golomb coding and Variable-length quantity. Whereas reading the article about Variable-length code people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Sardinas–Patterson algorithm, Golomb coding, Huffman coding, Bit array and Variable-width character encoding.

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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