VPN

Quality:

Virtual private network - virtual network extending a single private network across a public network like the Internet, appearing to users as a private network. Article “VPN” in Russian Wikipedia has 28.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.04 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Russian Wikipedia:

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The 1145^th most popular in Russian Wikipedia.

ru

The 5192^nd most editable in Russian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1677^th most popular in all topics.

The 4274^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Russian Wikipedia:

ru

The 2811^th most popular in Russian Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 708^th most editable in Russian Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “VPN” was edited by 7 authors in Russian Wikipedia (708^th place) and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “VPN”, its content was written by 182 registered users of Russian Wikipedia (5192^nd place) and edited by 3805 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4274^th place).

The article is cited 349 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 5946 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #323 in January 2025
• Global: #1100 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #79 in April 2018
• Global: #699 in July 2013

There are 50 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	Tamil (ta) மெய்நிகர் தனியார் பிணையம்		72.2888
2	German (de) Virtual Private Network		63.3549
3	Arabic (ar) شبكة خاصة افتراضية		63.2078
4	Estonian (et) Virtuaalne privaatvõrk		61.7841
5	English (en) Virtual private network		54.5944
6	Ukrainian (uk) VPN		51.1371
7	Chinese (zh) 虛擬私人網路		45.7674
8	Indonesian (id) Jaringan pribadi virtual		40.7648
9	Turkish (tr) Sanal özel ağ		36.3335
10	Catalan (ca) Xarxa privada virtual		34.315

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virtual private network		30 750 358
2	German (de) Virtual Private Network		6 894 840
3	Russian (ru) VPN		6 845 523
4	Spanish (es) Red privada virtual		4 994 073
5	French (fr) Réseau privé virtuel		4 899 879
6	Japanese (ja) Virtual private network		2 770 427
7	Chinese (zh) 虛擬私人網路		2 224 299
8	Italian (it) Rete privata virtuale		1 985 175
9	Polish (pl) Wirtualna sieć prywatna		1 576 926
10	Portuguese (pt) Rede privada virtual		1 506 772

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 private network		33 973
2	Russian (ru) VPN		19 990
3	French (fr) Réseau privé virtuel		8 759
4	German (de) Virtual Private Network		6 816
5	Chinese (zh) 虛擬私人網路		3 948
6	Spanish (es) Red privada virtual		3 171
7	Japanese (ja) Virtual private network		2 947
8	Persian (fa) شبکه خصوصی مجازی		2 680
9	Italian (it) Rete privata virtuale		2 103
10	Simple English (simple) Virtual private network		1 468

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Virtual private network		1 086
2	German (de) Virtual Private Network		312
3	French (fr) Réseau privé virtuel		226
4	Spanish (es) Red privada virtual		207
5	Russian (ru) VPN		182
6	Chinese (zh) 虛擬私人網路		177
7	Italian (it) Rete privata virtuale		143
8	Japanese (ja) Virtual private network		108
9	Dutch (nl) Virtueel Particulier Netwerk		107
10	Portuguese (pt) Rede privada virtual		79

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	Russian (ru) VPN		7
2	English (en) Virtual private network		3
3	Thai (th) เครือข่ายส่วนตัวเสมือน		2
4	Catalan (ca) Xarxa privada virtual		1
5	German (de) Virtual Private Network		1
6	French (fr) Réseau privé virtuel		1
7	Japanese (ja) Virtual private network		1
8	Kazakh (kk) VPN		1
9	Korean (ko) 가상사설망		1
10	Slovak (sk) Virtuálna privátna sieť		1

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

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