PAL

Quality:

PAL - colour encoding system for analogue television. Article “PAL” in Japanese Wikipedia has 11.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 11 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “PAL”, its content was written by 40 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 1963 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 314 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 13853 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #3188 in April 2006
• Global: #112 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #12964 in April 2008
• Global: #3071 in December 2008

There are 44 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) PAL		81.9117
2	Korean (ko) PAL		80.782
3	Tamil (ta) படிநிலை மாற்று வரிசை		65.9628
4	Chinese (zh) PAL制式		61.0256
5	Swedish (sv) Phase Alternating Line		47.336
6	German (de) PAL (Farbkodierungssystem)		38.7834
7	Thai (th) แพล		37.6093
8	Spanish (es) PAL		28.819
9	Polish (pl) PAL		27.2692
10	French (fr) Phase Alternating Line		25.8283

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) PAL		13 441 964
2	Spanish (es) PAL		2 222 642
3	German (de) PAL (Farbkodierungssystem)		1 648 224
4	Russian (ru) PAL		903 592
5	Japanese (ja) PAL		858 217
6	Polish (pl) PAL		808 138
7	French (fr) Phase Alternating Line		480 992
8	Chinese (zh) PAL制式		409 679
9	Portuguese (pt) PAL		379 544
10	Swedish (sv) Phase Alternating Line		204 071

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) PAL		25 609
2	German (de) PAL (Farbkodierungssystem)		1 679
3	Spanish (es) PAL		1 536
4	Russian (ru) PAL		1 198
5	Japanese (ja) PAL		964
6	Italian (it) PAL (televisione)		694
7	Polish (pl) PAL		620
8	French (fr) Phase Alternating Line		600
9	Chinese (zh) PAL制式		544
10	Portuguese (pt) PAL		260

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) PAL		729
2	German (de) PAL (Farbkodierungssystem)		204
3	French (fr) Phase Alternating Line		117
4	Spanish (es) PAL		109
5	Italian (it) PAL (televisione)		83
6	Russian (ru) PAL		60
7	Dutch (nl) Phase Alternating Line		56
8	Polish (pl) PAL		41
9	Swedish (sv) Phase Alternating Line		41
10	Japanese (ja) PAL		40

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) PAL (Farbkodierungssystem)		3
2	English (en) PAL		2
3	Arabic (ar) خط تناوب الطور		1
4	Greek (el) PAL		1
5	Korean (ko) PAL		1
6	Vietnamese (vi) PAL		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) PAL		0
8	Belarusian (be) PAL		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) PAL		0
10	Catalan (ca) PAL		0

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

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