UTF-16

UTF-16 - format for transforming texts encoded with one or two 16-bit code units per character of the universal character set defined by the ISO/IEC 10646 standard and the Unicode Standard. Article “UTF-16” in Russian Wikipedia has 13.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “UTF-16”, its content was written by 38 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 834 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 328 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 2294 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #9240 in May 2020
• Global: #6477 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #18617 in August 2008
• Global: #36109 in March 2009

There are 27 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) UTF-16		54.0537
2	Chinese (zh) UTF-16		27.0377
3	Bulgarian (bg) UTF-16		22.0436
4	Catalan (ca) UTF-16		21.6474
5	Czech (cs) UTF-16		20.5715
6	French (fr) UTF-16		18.3726
7	German (de) UTF-16		16.8538
8	Indonesian (id) UTF-16		15.1433
9	Spanish (es) UTF-16		13.8229
10	Russian (ru) UTF-16		13.1285

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

The most popular language versions of the article "UTF-16" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) UTF-16		3 772 708
2	Japanese (ja) UTF-16		573 002
3	German (de) UTF-16		519 295
4	Russian (ru) UTF-16		495 489
5	Chinese (zh) UTF-16		295 928
6	French (fr) UTF-16		211 369
7	Spanish (es) UTF-16		169 541
8	Polish (pl) UTF-16		159 257
9	Korean (ko) UTF-16		116 001
10	Italian (it) UTF-16		90 327

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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 "UTF-16" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) UTF-16		8 525
2	Japanese (ja) UTF-16		689
3	German (de) UTF-16		528
4	Russian (ru) UTF-16		492
5	Chinese (zh) UTF-16		390
6	French (fr) UTF-16		313
7	Spanish (es) UTF-16		124
8	Polish (pl) UTF-16		116
9	Portuguese (pt) UTF-16		88
10	Italian (it) UTF-16		82

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

Language versions of the article "UTF-16" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) UTF-16		301
2	German (de) UTF-16		71
3	French (fr) UTF-16		68
4	Chinese (zh) UTF-16		48
5	Italian (it) UTF-16		40
6	Russian (ru) UTF-16		38
7	Dutch (nl) UTF-16		28
8	Polish (pl) UTF-16		27
9	Japanese (ja) UTF-16		25
10	Spanish (es) UTF-16		21

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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 "UTF-16" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) UTF-16		1
2	Arabic (ar) يو تي اف-16		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) UTF-16		0
4	Catalan (ca) UTF-16		0
5	Czech (cs) UTF-16		0
6	Danish (da) UTF-16		0
7	German (de) UTF-16		0
8	Esperanto (eo) UTF-16		0
9	Spanish (es) UTF-16		0
10	French (fr) UTF-16		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 "UTF-16" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) UTF-16		637
2	Russian (ru) UTF-16		328
3	Chinese (zh) UTF-16		316
4	Japanese (ja) UTF-16		181
5	Korean (ko) UTF-16		164
6	French (fr) UTF-16		154
7	Ukrainian (uk) UTF-16		81
8	German (de) UTF-16		66
9	Czech (cs) UTF-16		57
10	Spanish (es) UTF-16		35

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic يو تي اف-16
bg	Bulgarian UTF-16
ca	Catalan UTF-16
cs	Czech UTF-16
da	Danish UTF-16
de	German UTF-16
en	English UTF-16
eo	Esperanto UTF-16
es	Spanish UTF-16
fr	French UTF-16
he	Hebrew UTF-16
hr	Croatian UTF-16
hu	Hungarian UTF-16/UCS-2
id	Indonesian UTF-16
it	Italian UTF-16
ja	Japanese UTF-16
ko	Korean UTF-16
nl	Dutch UTF-16
pl	Polish UTF-16
pt	Portuguese UTF-16
ru	Russian UTF-16
sk	Slovak UTF-16
sv	Swedish UTF-16
th	Thai UTF-16/UCS-2
uk	Ukrainian UTF-16
ur	Urdu یو ٹی ایف-16
zh	Chinese UTF-16

Best Rank

Russian: #18617 08.2008

Global: #36109 03.2009

Best Rank

Russian: #9240 05.2020

Global: #6477 10.2004

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information