Viking (satellite)

Viking - Sweden's first satellite. Article “Viking (satellite)” in Italian Wikipedia has 13.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Viking (satellite)”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 149 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 110 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 284 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #40547 in October 2016
• Global: #45777 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #589698 in October 2016
• Global: #791054 in July 2008

There are 12 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	Swedish (sv) Viking (satellit)		43.6966
2	Galician (gl) Viking (satélite)		27.3109
3	Japanese (ja) バイキング (人工衛星)		24.2181
4	English (en) Viking (satellite)		24.1032
5	Russian (ru) Викинг (космический аппарат)		22.5006
6	Polish (pl) Viking (satelita)		19.2481
7	French (fr) Viking (satellite)		15.1338
8	Portuguese (pt) Viking (satélite)		13.6831
9	Italian (it) Viking (satellite)		13.5664
10	Finnish (fi) Viking (satelliitti)		6.7936

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Viking (satellite)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Viking (satellite)		72 400
2	Swedish (sv) Viking (satellit)		25 640
3	French (fr) Viking (satellite)		6 660
4	German (de) Viking (Satellit)		6 246
5	Japanese (ja) バイキング (人工衛星)		5 491
6	Portuguese (pt) Viking (satélite)		4 095
7	Polish (pl) Viking (satelita)		3 304
8	Finnish (fi) Viking (satelliitti)		2 144
9	Russian (ru) Викинг (космический аппарат)		1 693
10	Italian (it) Viking (satellite)		1 112

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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 "Viking (satellite)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Viking (satellite)		149
2	French (fr) Viking (satellite)		62
3	Swedish (sv) Viking (satellit)		42
4	Russian (ru) Викинг (космический аппарат)		23
5	Italian (it) Viking (satellite)		18
6	Japanese (ja) バイキング (人工衛星)		11
7	German (de) Viking (Satellit)		10
8	Portuguese (pt) Viking (satélite)		9
9	Finnish (fi) Viking (satelliitti)		8
10	Hungarian (hu) Viking (műhold)		8

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Viking (satellite)		33
2	Swedish (sv) Viking (satellit)		23
3	French (fr) Viking (satellite)		20
4	German (de) Viking (Satellit)		18
5	Polish (pl) Viking (satelita)		10
6	Finnish (fi) Viking (satelliitti)		9
7	Portuguese (pt) Viking (satélite)		9
8	Italian (it) Viking (satellite)		8
9	Japanese (ja) バイキング (人工衛星)		7
10	Hungarian (hu) Viking (műhold)		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 "Viking (satellite)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Russian (ru) Викинг (космический аппарат)		1
2	German (de) Viking (Satellit)		0
3	English (en) Viking (satellite)		0
4	Finnish (fi) Viking (satelliitti)		0
5	French (fr) Viking (satellite)		0
6	Galician (gl) Viking (satélite)		0
7	Hungarian (hu) Viking (műhold)		0
8	Italian (it) Viking (satellite)		0
9	Japanese (ja) バイキング (人工衛星)		0
10	Polish (pl) Viking (satelita)		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 "Viking (satellite)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Viking (satellite)		110
2	Russian (ru) Викинг (космический аппарат)		76
3	English (en) Viking (satellite)		43
4	Swedish (sv) Viking (satellit)		19
5	Japanese (ja) バイキング (人工衛星)		10
6	French (fr) Viking (satellite)		7
7	Portuguese (pt) Viking (satélite)		5
8	German (de) Viking (Satellit)		4
9	Hungarian (hu) Viking (műhold)		4
10	Finnish (fi) Viking (satelliitti)		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German Viking (Satellit)
en	English Viking (satellite)
fi	Finnish Viking (satelliitti)
fr	French Viking (satellite)
gl	Galician Viking (satélite)
hu	Hungarian Viking (műhold)
it	Italian Viking (satellite)
ja	Japanese バイキング (人工衛星)
pl	Polish Viking (satelita)
pt	Portuguese Viking (satélite)
ru	Russian Викинг (космический аппарат)
sv	Swedish Viking (satellit)

Best Rank

Italian: #589698 10.2016

Global: #791054 07.2008

Best Rank

Italian: #40547 10.2016

Global: #45777 01.2004

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