Virtual International Authority File

Quality:

Virtual International Authority File - OCLC dataset and service that virtually combines multiple name authority files into a single name authority service. This website is the 446^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 21^st most popular website in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article "Virtual International Authority File" in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 7.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 2040^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 21^st most popular in websites in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 446^th most popular in websites.

Since the creation of article "Virtual International Authority File", its content was written by 5 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and edited by 651 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Virtual International Authority File is on the 21^st place in local ranking of websites in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 446^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 4148531 times in all languages (9^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #511 in September 2012
• Global: #9670 in September 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #214 in February 2017
• Global: #4055 in October 2024

There are 48 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	Ukrainian (uk) VIAF		41.8218
2	Russian (ru) VIAF		35.9952
3	English (en) Virtual International Authority File		33.8019
4	Croatian (hr) Virtualna međunarodna normativna baza		32.4883
5	Belarusian (be) Virtual International Authority File		31.4119
6	Malay (ms) Fail Kewibawaan Antarabangsa Maya		29.6692
7	Polish (pl) Virtual International Authority File		26.3108
8	French (fr) Fichier d'autorité international virtuel		25.6699
9	Portuguese (pt) Base Virtual Internacional de Autoridade		24.8117
10	Finnish (fi) VIAF		24.0525

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virtual International Authority File		1 694 540
2	German (de) Virtual International Authority File		479 412
3	Spanish (es) Fichero de Autoridades Virtual Internacional		440 524
4	Italian (it) Virtual International Authority File		209 113
5	Russian (ru) VIAF		110 542
6	Japanese (ja) バーチャル国際典拠ファイル		79 700
7	Chinese (zh) 虚拟国际规范文档		74 871
8	Dutch (nl) Virtual International Authority File		60 814
9	French (fr) Fichier d'autorité international virtuel		60 800
10	Portuguese (pt) Base Virtual Internacional de Autoridade		53 160

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) Virtual International Authority File		2 105
2	German (de) Virtual International Authority File		1 176
3	Russian (ru) VIAF		1 003
4	Italian (it) Virtual International Authority File		501
5	Indonesian (id) Virtual International Authority File		404
6	Spanish (es) Fichero de Autoridades Virtual Internacional		400
7	Polish (pl) Virtual International Authority File		324
8	Czech (cs) Virtual International Authority File		216
9	Portuguese (pt) Base Virtual Internacional de Autoridade		191
10	Dutch (nl) Virtual International Authority File		185

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Virtual International Authority File		138
2	German (de) Virtual International Authority File		52
3	French (fr) Fichier d'autorité international virtuel		34
4	Italian (it) Virtual International Authority File		31
5	Norwegian (no) Virtual International Authority File		25
6	Spanish (es) Fichero de Autoridades Virtual Internacional		24
7	Japanese (ja) バーチャル国際典拠ファイル		23
8	Russian (ru) VIAF		23
9	Dutch (nl) Virtual International Authority File		22
10	Hebrew (he) VIAF		16

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	Czech (cs) Virtual International Authority File		1
2	English (en) Virtual International Authority File		1
3	Arabic (ar) ملف الضبط الاستنادي الدولي الافتراضي		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) VIAF		0
5	Belarusian (be) Virtual International Authority File		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Виртуален международен нормативен архив		0
7	Catalan (ca) Virtual International Authority File		0
8	Danish (da) Virtual International Authority File		0
9	German (de) Virtual International Authority File		0
10	Greek (el) Virtual International Authority File		0

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

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