Virtual channel

Virtual channel - method of remapping a digital program stream to a channel number. Article “Virtual channel” in English Wikipedia has 25.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.45 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Virtual channel”, its content was written by 133 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 407 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3410 times in English Wikipedia (7999^th place) and cited 6040 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #28810 in September 2022
• Global: #10655 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #120477 in June 2009
• Global: #114023 in December 2010

There are 9 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	Indonesian (id) Saluran virtual		35.072
2	English (en) Virtual channel		25.79
3	Japanese (ja) リモコンキーID		21.1907
4	German (de) Logical Channel Numbering		18.9372
5	Italian (it) Logical channel number		13.5475
6	Chinese (zh) 频道号码		6.2976
7	Swedish (sv) Kanal (GPS)		2.8331
8	Korean (ko) 가상 채널		0.5035
9	French (fr) Canal virtuel		0.1568

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Virtual channel" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virtual channel		1 113 524
2	Japanese (ja) リモコンキーID		575 110
3	Italian (it) Logical channel number		251 269
4	German (de) Logical Channel Numbering		47 931
5	Indonesian (id) Saluran virtual		32 973
6	Chinese (zh) 频道号码		9 422
7	French (fr) Canal virtuel		8 354
8	Swedish (sv) Kanal (GPS)		4 506
9	Korean (ko) 가상 채널		511

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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 "Virtual channel" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virtual channel		4 087
2	Japanese (ja) リモコンキーID		1 041
3	Indonesian (id) Saluran virtual		358
4	Italian (it) Logical channel number		351
5	Chinese (zh) 频道号码		112
6	German (de) Logical Channel Numbering		105
7	French (fr) Canal virtuel		36
8	Swedish (sv) Kanal (GPS)		30
9	Korean (ko) 가상 채널		21

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

Language versions of the article "Virtual channel" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) リモコンキーID		161
2	English (en) Virtual channel		133
3	Italian (it) Logical channel number		52
4	Indonesian (id) Saluran virtual		26
5	German (de) Logical Channel Numbering		11
6	Chinese (zh) 频道号码		11
7	French (fr) Canal virtuel		8
8	Swedish (sv) Kanal (GPS)		5
9	Korean (ko) 가상 채널		0

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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 "Virtual channel" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Indonesian (id) Saluran virtual		1
2	German (de) Logical Channel Numbering		0
3	English (en) Virtual channel		0
4	French (fr) Canal virtuel		0
5	Italian (it) Logical channel number		0
6	Japanese (ja) リモコンキーID		0
7	Korean (ko) 가상 채널		0
8	Swedish (sv) Kanal (GPS)		0
9	Chinese (zh) 频道号码		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 "Virtual channel" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Virtual channel		3 410
2	Japanese (ja) リモコンキーID		1 974
3	Italian (it) Logical channel number		231
4	Indonesian (id) Saluran virtual		185
5	French (fr) Canal virtuel		151
6	Chinese (zh) 频道号码		58
7	Swedish (sv) Kanal (GPS)		22
8	German (de) Logical Channel Numbering		5
9	Korean (ko) 가상 채널		4

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#	Language	Value
de	German Logical Channel Numbering
en	English Virtual channel
fr	French Canal virtuel
id	Indonesian Saluran virtual
it	Italian Logical channel number
ja	Japanese リモコンキーID
ko	Korean 가상 채널
sv	Swedish Kanal (GPS)
zh	Chinese 频道号码

Best Rank

English: #120477 06.2009

Global: #114023 12.2010

Best Rank

English: #28810 09.2022

Global: #10655 04.2004

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