DirectSound

DirectSound - Software library for interfacing with sound card drivers on Windows operating system. This software is the 813^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 743^rd most popular software in Spanish Wikipedia. Article “DirectSound” in Spanish Wikipedia has 9.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.48 points.

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

Since the creation of article “DirectSound”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 181 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

DirectSound is on the 743^rd place in local ranking of software in Spanish Wikipedia and on the 813^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 18 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 576 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #25410 in August 2009
• Global: #69502 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #65599 in January 2008
• Global: #123551 in June 2008

There are 11 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) DirectSound		44.4304
2	Chinese (zh) DirectSound		17.9211
3	Japanese (ja) DirectSound		14.2159
4	Spanish (es) DirectSound		9.1233
5	Russian (ru) DirectSound		8.4394
6	Polish (pl) DirectSound		8.1355
7	Korean (ko) 다이렉트사운드		3.591
8	Czech (cs) DirectSound		2.689
9	Dutch (nl) DirectSound		2.3051
10	Ukrainian (uk) DirectSound		1.4956

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) DirectSound		623 817
2	Japanese (ja) DirectSound		181 335
3	Russian (ru) DirectSound		105 841
4	Spanish (es) DirectSound		51 751
5	Chinese (zh) DirectSound		43 318
6	Polish (pl) DirectSound		40 287
7	French (fr) DirectSound		19 812
8	Korean (ko) 다이렉트사운드		17 016
9	Dutch (nl) DirectSound		10 499
10	Ukrainian (uk) DirectSound		4 122

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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 "DirectSound" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) DirectSound		530
2	Chinese (zh) DirectSound		150
3	Japanese (ja) DirectSound		111
4	Russian (ru) DirectSound		46
5	Spanish (es) DirectSound		30
6	French (fr) DirectSound		17
7	Korean (ko) 다이렉트사운드		14
8	Polish (pl) DirectSound		13
9	Dutch (nl) DirectSound		7
10	Czech (cs) DirectSound		5

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) DirectSound		60
2	Dutch (nl) DirectSound		26
3	Japanese (ja) DirectSound		22
4	Spanish (es) DirectSound		17
5	Russian (ru) DirectSound		14
6	French (fr) DirectSound		13
7	Polish (pl) DirectSound		9
8	Ukrainian (uk) DirectSound		6
9	Korean (ko) 다이렉트사운드		5
10	Chinese (zh) DirectSound		5

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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 "DirectSound" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) DirectSound		3
2	Czech (cs) DirectSound		0
3	Spanish (es) DirectSound		0
4	French (fr) DirectSound		0
5	Japanese (ja) DirectSound		0
6	Korean (ko) 다이렉트사운드		0
7	Dutch (nl) DirectSound		0
8	Polish (pl) DirectSound		0
9	Russian (ru) DirectSound		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) DirectSound		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 "DirectSound" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) DirectSound		148
2	Japanese (ja) DirectSound		117
3	Chinese (zh) DirectSound		98
4	Korean (ko) 다이렉트사운드		85
5	Polish (pl) DirectSound		37
6	Russian (ru) DirectSound		37
7	Spanish (es) DirectSound		18
8	French (fr) DirectSound		12
9	Ukrainian (uk) DirectSound		10
10	Czech (cs) DirectSound		8

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech DirectSound
en	English DirectSound
es	Spanish DirectSound
fr	French DirectSound
ja	Japanese DirectSound
ko	Korean 다이렉트사운드
nl	Dutch DirectSound
pl	Polish DirectSound
ru	Russian DirectSound
uk	Ukrainian DirectSound
zh	Chinese DirectSound

Best Rank

Spanish: #65599 01.2008

Global: #123551 06.2008

Best Rank

Spanish: #25410 08.2009

Global: #69502 02.2009

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