Windows Media Player

Quality:

This software is the 99^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 88^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “Windows Media Player” in English Wikipedia has 68.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 54 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.58 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 88^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 99^th most popular in software.

In June 2026 the article “Windows Media Player” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Windows Media Player”, its content was written by 741 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2311 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Windows Media Player is on the 88^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 99^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 796 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4850 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1730 in January 2003
• Global: #2511 in June 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #693 in June 2008
• Global: #1081 in June 2008

There are 39 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	English (en) Windows Media Player		68.1832
2	German (de) Windows Media Player		58.4861
3	Greek (el) Windows Media Player		50.2356
4	Vietnamese (vi) Windows Media Player		45.279
5	Arabic (ar) مشغل وسائط ويندوز		32.8358
6	Serbian (sr) Windows Media Player		29.7877
7	Tamil (ta) விண்டோசு மீடியா பிளேயர்		29.4417
8	Dutch (nl) Windows Media Player		28.4328
9	Turkish (tr) Windows Medya Oynatıcı		27.3603
10	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		25.3483

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Windows Media Player		6 658 264
2	Spanish (es) Reproductor de Windows Media		1 306 933
3	German (de) Windows Media Player		690 352
4	Russian (ru) Проигрыватель Windows Media		585 859
5	French (fr) Lecteur Windows Media		406 592
6	Italian (it) Windows Media Player		375 564
7	Portuguese (pt) Windows Media Player		353 164
8	Vietnamese (vi) Windows Media Player		305 244
9	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		245 319
10	Polish (pl) Windows Media Player		222 635

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) Windows Media Player		7 016
2	Japanese (ja) Windows Media Player Legacy		709
3	Russian (ru) Проигрыватель Windows Media		672
4	French (fr) Lecteur Windows Media		584
5	German (de) Windows Media Player		577
6	Spanish (es) Reproductor de Windows Media		522
7	Korean (ko) 윈도우 미디어 플레이어		453
8	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		415
9	Portuguese (pt) Windows Media Player		316
10	Turkish (tr) Windows Medya Oynatıcı		286

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Windows Media Player		741
2	German (de) Windows Media Player		175
3	Spanish (es) Reproductor de Windows Media		138
4	French (fr) Lecteur Windows Media		116
5	Italian (it) Windows Media Player		111
6	Russian (ru) Проигрыватель Windows Media		100
7	Dutch (nl) Windows Media Player		92
8	Japanese (ja) Windows Media Player Legacy		86
9	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		82
10	Portuguese (pt) Windows Media Player		68

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) Windows Media Player		3
2	Turkish (tr) Windows Medya Oynatıcı		2
3	Arabic (ar) مشغل وسائط ويندوز		1
4	Spanish (es) Reproductor de Windows Media		1
5	Korean (ko) 윈도우 미디어 플레이어		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Windows Media Player		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Windows Media Player		0
8	Catalan (ca) Windows Media Player		0
9	Czech (cs) Windows Media Player		0
10	Danish (da) Windows Media Player		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information