VIAF

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 460^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 847^th most popular website in Russian Wikipedia. Article “VIAF” in Russian Wikipedia has 36 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Russian Wikipedia:

The 847^th most popular in websites in Russian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 460^th most popular in websites.

Since the creation of article “VIAF”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 682 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Virtual International Authority File is on the 847^th place in local ranking of websites in Russian Wikipedia and on the 460^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 274445 times in Russian Wikipedia (7^th place) and cited 4252838 times in all languages (8^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #7234 in May 2013
• Global: #9698 in September 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #67781 in August 2021
• Global: #4480 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, 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	Ukrainian (uk) VIAF		39.3317
2	Russian (ru) VIAF		36.0294
3	English (en) Virtual International Authority File		33.6999
4	Croatian (hr) Virtualna međunarodna normativna baza		32.4782
5	Belarusian (be) Virtual International Authority File		31.3924
6	Malay (ms) Fail Kewibawaan Antarabangsa Maya		30.145
7	Polish (pl) Virtual International Authority File		26.191
8	French (fr) Fichier d'autorité international virtuel		25.5627
9	Portuguese (pt) Base Virtual Internacional de Autoridade		24.6706
10	Finnish (fi) VIAF		24.0506

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virtual International Authority File		1 715 861
2	German (de) Virtual International Authority File		498 437
3	Spanish (es) Fichero de Autoridades Virtual Internacional		440 324
4	Italian (it) Virtual International Authority File		214 877
5	Russian (ru) VIAF		118 410
6	Japanese (ja) バーチャル国際典拠ファイル		81 007
7	Chinese (zh) 虚拟国际规范文档		76 328
8	French (fr) Fichier d'autorité international virtuel		62 818
9	Dutch (nl) Virtual International Authority File		62 449
10	Portuguese (pt) Base Virtual Internacional de Autoridade		54 590

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Virtual International Authority File		2 783
2	English (en) Virtual International Authority File		1 402
3	Spanish (es) Fichero de Autoridades Virtual Internacional		424
4	Italian (it) Virtual International Authority File		415
5	Polish (pl) Virtual International Authority File		343
6	Russian (ru) VIAF		260
7	Czech (cs) Virtual International Authority File		219
8	Dutch (nl) Virtual International Authority File		188
9	French (fr) Fichier d'autorité international virtuel		181
10	Portuguese (pt) Base Virtual Internacional de Autoridade		180

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		147
2	German (de) Virtual International Authority File		54
3	French (fr) Fichier d'autorité international virtuel		34
4	Italian (it) Virtual International Authority File		33
5	Spanish (es) Fichero de Autoridades Virtual Internacional		32
6	Russian (ru) VIAF		24
7	Japanese (ja) バーチャル国際典拠ファイル		23
8	Dutch (nl) Virtual International Authority File		22
9	Hebrew (he) VIAF		17
10	Czech (cs) Virtual International Authority File		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	English (en) Virtual International Authority File		5
2	Arabic (ar) ملف الضبط الاستنادي الدولي الافتراضي		1
3	Basque (eu) Nazioarteko Autoritate Fitxategi Birtuala		1
4	Hebrew (he) VIAF		1
5	Italian (it) Virtual International Authority File		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) VIAF		0
7	Belarusian (be) Virtual International Authority File		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Виртуален международен нормативен архив		0
9	Catalan (ca) Virtual International Authority File		0
10	Czech (cs) 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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