Virtual memory

Quality:

Virtual memory - operating system level memory management technique. Article “Virtual memory” in English Wikipedia has 55.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 54 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.19 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Virtual memory”, its content was written by 475 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1728 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 916 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4535 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #262 in March 2001
• Global: #266 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9304 in April 2008
• Global: #7879 in April 2008

There are 41 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	Estonian (et) Virtuaalmälu		71.3184
2	English (en) Virtual memory		55.7064
3	Turkish (tr) Sanal bellek		47.1152
4	Hindi (hi) वर्चुअल मेमोरी (आभासी स्मृति)		44.9857
5	German (de) Virtuelle Speicherverwaltung		42.7979
6	Persian (fa) حافظه مجازی		35.4534
7	French (fr) Mémoire virtuelle		34.5177
8	Japanese (ja) 仮想記憶		34.0733
9	Portuguese (pt) Memória virtual		28.8222
10	Serbian (sr) Виртуелна меморија		27.0647

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virtual memory		6 319 853
2	Spanish (es) Memoria virtual		1 528 699
3	Russian (ru) Виртуальная память		887 434
4	Japanese (ja) 仮想記憶		715 290
5	German (de) Virtuelle Speicherverwaltung		653 036
6	Portuguese (pt) Memória virtual		580 545
7	French (fr) Mémoire virtuelle		558 957
8	Polish (pl) Pamięć wirtualna		457 211
9	Italian (it) Memoria virtuale		379 870
10	Chinese (zh) 虚拟内存		311 605

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) Virtual memory		4 878
2	Russian (ru) Виртуальная память		557
3	Chinese (zh) 虚拟内存		402
4	Japanese (ja) 仮想記憶		401
5	French (fr) Mémoire virtuelle		297
6	German (de) Virtuelle Speicherverwaltung		294
7	Spanish (es) Memoria virtual		272
8	Italian (it) Memoria virtuale		230
9	Portuguese (pt) Memória virtual		171
10	Polish (pl) Pamięć wirtualna		144

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Virtual memory		475
2	German (de) Virtuelle Speicherverwaltung		141
3	French (fr) Mémoire virtuelle		125
4	Italian (it) Memoria virtuale		86
5	Spanish (es) Memoria virtual		79
6	Japanese (ja) 仮想記憶		69
7	Portuguese (pt) Memória virtual		67
8	Russian (ru) Виртуальная память		65
9	Polish (pl) Pamięć wirtualna		63
10	Chinese (zh) 虚拟内存		49

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	Arabic (ar) ذاكرة افتراضية		1
2	French (fr) Mémoire virtuelle		1
3	Italian (it) Memoria virtuale		1
4	Serbian (sr) Виртуелна меморија		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ nhớ ảo		1
6	Chinese (zh) 虚拟内存		1
7	Catalan (ca) Memòria virtual		0
8	Czech (cs) Virtuální paměť		0
9	Danish (da) Virtuel hukommelse		0
10	German (de) Virtuelle Speicherverwaltung		0

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

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