Windows Media Player

Quality:

Windows Media Player - media player and media library application by Microsoft. This software is the 129^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 284^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “Windows Media Player” in English Wikipedia has 76.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 55 references and 25 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 284^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 129^th most popular in software.

In June 2025 the article “Windows Media Player” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Windows Media Player”, its content was written by 732 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2292 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Windows Media Player is on the 284^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 129^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 855 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4984 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1730 in January 2003
• Global: #2506 in June 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8514 in July 2009
• Global: #3856 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, 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) Windows Media Player		76.4152
2	German (de) Windows Media Player		59.9027
3	Greek (el) Windows Media Player		50.6039
4	Vietnamese (vi) Windows Media Player		44.997
5	Arabic (ar) مشغل وسائط ويندوز		32.9812
6	Serbian (sr) Windows Media Player		29.7511
7	Tamil (ta) விண்டோசு மீடியா பிளேயர்		29.6111
8	Dutch (nl) Windows Media Player		28.2966
9	Turkish (tr) Windows Media Player		27.3256
10	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		25.3822

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Windows Media Player		2 205 147
2	Spanish (es) Reproductor de Windows Media		1 298 736
3	Japanese (ja) Windows Media Player Legacy		1 095 274
4	German (de) Windows Media Player		681 331
5	Russian (ru) Проигрыватель Windows Media		556 260
6	French (fr) Lecteur Windows Media		399 862
7	Italian (it) Windows Media Player		371 932
8	Portuguese (pt) Windows Media Player		349 032
9	Vietnamese (vi) Windows Media Player		303 944
10	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		249 505

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		7 164
2	Japanese (ja) Windows Media Player Legacy		1 142
3	Spanish (es) Reproductor de Windows Media		998
4	French (fr) Lecteur Windows Media		690
5	German (de) Windows Media Player		668
6	Russian (ru) Проигрыватель Windows Media		594
7	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		536
8	Italian (it) Windows Media Player		347
9	Portuguese (pt) Windows Media Player		285
10	Korean (ko) 윈도우 미디어 플레이어		267

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		732
2	German (de) Windows Media Player		171
3	Spanish (es) Reproductor de Windows Media		136
4	French (fr) Lecteur Windows Media		112
5	Italian (it) Windows Media Player		111
6	Russian (ru) Проигрыватель Windows Media		100
7	Dutch (nl) Windows Media Player		91
8	Japanese (ja) Windows Media Player Legacy		83
9	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		80
10	Portuguese (pt) Windows Media Player		64

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	German (de) Windows Media Player		1
2	English (en) Windows Media Player		1
3	Korean (ko) 윈도우 미디어 플레이어		1
4	Russian (ru) Проигрыватель Windows Media		1
5	Arabic (ar) مشغل وسائط ويندوز		0
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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