Windows Media Player

Quality:

Windows Media Player - media player and media library application by Microsoft. This software is the 135^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 340^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article "Windows Media Player" in English Wikipedia has 76.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 54 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 language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 340^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 135^th most popular in software.

In July 2024 the article "Windows Media Player" was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Windows Media Player", its content was written by 717 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2255 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Windows Media Player is on the 340^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 135^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 853 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4809 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1729 in January 2003
• Global: #2515 in June 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8520 in July 2009
• Global: #3866 in June 2008

There are 38 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 August 1, 2024 (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		76.3574
2	German (de) Windows Media Player		56.3399
3	Greek (el) Windows Media Player		51.02
4	Vietnamese (vi) Windows Media Player		45.1837
5	Arabic (ar) مشغل وسائط ويندوز		33.1328
6	Tamil (ta) விண்டோசு மீடியா பிளேயர்		29.6111
7	Dutch (nl) Windows Media Player		28.6054
8	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		25.5904
9	Turkish (tr) Windows Media Player		24.9837
10	Swedish (sv) Windows Media Player		24.7606

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Windows Media Player		1 728 547
2	Spanish (es) Reproductor de Windows Media		1 286 684
3	Japanese (ja) Windows Media Player Legacy		1 184 446
4	German (de) Windows Media Player		671 977
5	Russian (ru) Проигрыватель Windows Media		546 338
6	French (fr) Lecteur Windows Media		390 936
7	Italian (it) Windows Media Player		367 548
8	Portuguese (pt) Windows Media Player		345 073
9	Vietnamese (vi) Windows Media Player		302 199
10	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		242 623

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		9 029
2	Japanese (ja) Windows Media Player Legacy		1 248
3	Spanish (es) Reproductor de Windows Media		1 174
4	Russian (ru) Проигрыватель Windows Media		811
5	German (de) Windows Media Player		705
6	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		661
7	French (fr) Lecteur Windows Media		535
8	Italian (it) Windows Media Player		469
9	Portuguese (pt) Windows Media Player		422
10	Polish (pl) Windows Media Player		239

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		717
2	German (de) Windows Media Player		168
3	Spanish (es) Reproductor de Windows Media		136
4	French (fr) Lecteur Windows Media		110
5	Italian (it) Windows Media Player		109
6	Russian (ru) Проигрыватель Windows Media		98
7	Dutch (nl) Windows Media Player		91
8	Japanese (ja) Windows Media Player Legacy		82
9	Chinese (zh) Windows Media Player		78
10	Portuguese (pt) Windows Media Player		62

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		4
2	Arabic (ar) مشغل وسائط ويندوز		2
3	German (de) Windows Media Player		2
4	Spanish (es) Reproductor de Windows Media		2
5	Indonesian (id) Windows Media Player		1
6	Italian (it) Windows Media Player		1
7	Japanese (ja) Windows Media Player Legacy		1
8	Polish (pl) Windows Media Player		1
9	Simple English (simple) Windows Media Player		1
10	Turkish (tr) Windows Media Player		1

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

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