VLC

Quality:

This software is the 38^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 37^th most popular software in Russian Wikipedia. Article “VLC” in Russian Wikipedia has 53.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 59 references and 14 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Russian Wikipedia:

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The 9029^th most editable in Russian Wikipedia.

The 37^th most popular in software in Russian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8274^th most popular in AI.

The 38^th most popular in software.

Achievements in the last month:

Russian Wikipedia:

ru

The 6459^th most popular in Russian Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “VLC”, its content was written by 148 registered users of Russian Wikipedia (9029^th place) and edited by 2820 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8274^th place).

VLC media player is on the 37^th place in local ranking of software in Russian Wikipedia and on the 38^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 172 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 2020 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #1122 in May 2010
• Global: #984 in August 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #2634 in March 2008
• Global: #1716 in June 2008

There are 41 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) VLC media player		94.2857
2	Hindi (hi) वीएलसी मीडिया प्लेयर		74.1224
3	Greek (el) VLC media player		65.6035
4	Armenian (hy) VLC մեդիա նվագարկիչ		64.8083
5	Russian (ru) VLC		53.8447
6	French (fr) VLC media player		52.9486
7	Korean (ko) VLC 미디어 플레이어		51.2751
8	Chinese (zh) VLC多媒體播放器		48.0123
9	Norwegian (no) VLC media player		47.8406
10	German (de) VLC media player		44.8

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) VLC media player		11 305 855
2	German (de) VLC media player		2 290 607
3	Russian (ru) VLC		1 950 597
4	Japanese (ja) VLCメディアプレーヤー		1 804 502
5	French (fr) VLC media player		1 663 541
6	Spanish (es) VLC media player		1 358 889
7	Italian (it) VLC media player		740 984
8	Portuguese (pt) VLC		426 199
9	Chinese (zh) VLC多媒體播放器		362 914
10	Dutch (nl) VLC media player		286 115

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) VLC media player		33 622
2	Russian (ru) VLC		9 812
3	German (de) VLC media player		5 377
4	French (fr) VLC media player		4 481
5	Japanese (ja) VLCメディアプレーヤー		2 977
6	Spanish (es) VLC media player		2 730
7	Chinese (zh) VLC多媒體播放器		1 246
8	Korean (ko) VLC 미디어 플레이어		935
9	Catalan (ca) VLC media player		844
10	Italian (it) VLC media player		833

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) VLC media player		718
2	German (de) VLC media player		267
3	French (fr) VLC media player		239
4	Italian (it) VLC media player		156
5	Russian (ru) VLC		148
6	Spanish (es) VLC media player		100
7	Dutch (nl) VLC media player		95
8	Japanese (ja) VLCメディアプレーヤー		86
9	Chinese (zh) VLC多媒體播放器		69
10	Portuguese (pt) VLC		61

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	Catalan (ca) VLC media player		2
2	English (en) VLC media player		2
3	French (fr) VLC media player		2
4	Arabic (ar) مشغل الوسائط في إل سي		1
5	Czech (cs) VLC media player		1
6	Danish (da) VLC media player		1
7	Korean (ko) VLC 미디어 플레이어		1
8	Chinese (zh) VLC多媒體播放器		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) VLC media player		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) VLC media player		0

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

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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