Rec. 601

Rec. 601 - recommendation/international standard from the International Telecommunication Union. Article “Rec. 601” in Japanese Wikipedia has 10.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 6 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Rec. 601” was edited by 1 authors in Japanese Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rec. 601”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 199 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 18 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 362 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #48765 in May 2021
• Global: #4228 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #339174 in March 2023
• Global: #174908 in April 2008

There are 10 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) Rec. 601		24.6929
2	Catalan (ca) ITU 601		18.0945
3	Chinese (zh) BT.601		15.3092
4	Spanish (es) UIT-R BT.601-7		14.2374
5	German (de) ITU-R BT 601		11.7026
6	Japanese (ja) Rec. 601		10.9026
7	Korean (ko) Rec. 601		10.2298
8	Czech (cs) Rec. 601		4.3561
9	French (fr) Rec. 601		3.6129
10	Italian (it) BT.601		3.4008

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Rec. 601" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rec. 601		737 698
2	German (de) ITU-R BT 601		100 926
3	Spanish (es) UIT-R BT.601-7		55 111
4	Chinese (zh) BT.601		32 883
5	French (fr) Rec. 601		26 716
6	Italian (it) BT.601		21 352
7	Japanese (ja) Rec. 601		10 410
8	Catalan (ca) ITU 601		5 069
9	Korean (ko) Rec. 601		1 364
10	Czech (cs) Rec. 601		370

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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 "Rec. 601" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rec. 601		2 268
2	Chinese (zh) BT.601		219
3	Japanese (ja) Rec. 601		171
4	German (de) ITU-R BT 601		129
5	French (fr) Rec. 601		80
6	Spanish (es) UIT-R BT.601-7		75
7	Italian (it) BT.601		35
8	Korean (ko) Rec. 601		30
9	Czech (cs) Rec. 601		8
10	Catalan (ca) ITU 601		6

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

Language versions of the article "Rec. 601" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rec. 601		85
2	German (de) ITU-R BT 601		40
3	Italian (it) BT.601		20
4	Spanish (es) UIT-R BT.601-7		15
5	French (fr) Rec. 601		13
6	Catalan (ca) ITU 601		10
7	Chinese (zh) BT.601		8
8	Japanese (ja) Rec. 601		5
9	Czech (cs) Rec. 601		2
10	Korean (ko) Rec. 601		1

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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 "Rec. 601" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rec. 601		3
2	Japanese (ja) Rec. 601		1
3	Catalan (ca) ITU 601		0
4	Czech (cs) Rec. 601		0
5	German (de) ITU-R BT 601		0
6	Spanish (es) UIT-R BT.601-7		0
7	French (fr) Rec. 601		0
8	Italian (it) BT.601		0
9	Korean (ko) Rec. 601		0
10	Chinese (zh) BT.601		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 "Rec. 601" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Rec. 601		171
2	Italian (it) BT.601		42
3	Korean (ko) Rec. 601		32
4	Chinese (zh) BT.601		30
5	German (de) ITU-R BT 601		29
6	Japanese (ja) Rec. 601		18
7	Spanish (es) UIT-R BT.601-7		15
8	French (fr) Rec. 601		15
9	Catalan (ca) ITU 601		7
10	Czech (cs) Rec. 601		3

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan ITU 601
cs	Czech Rec. 601
de	German ITU-R BT 601
en	English Rec. 601
es	Spanish UIT-R BT.601-7
fr	French Rec. 601
it	Italian BT.601
ja	Japanese Rec. 601
ko	Korean Rec. 601
zh	Chinese BT.601

Best Rank

Japanese: #339174 03.2023

Global: #174908 04.2008

Best Rank

Japanese: #48765 05.2021

Global: #4228 03.2003

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