Information entropy

Quality:

Information entropy - expected value of the amount of information delivered by a message. Article “Information entropy” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Information entropy”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1653 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3154 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #447 in September 2015
• Global: #301 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1151 in December 2015
• Global: #9354 in April 2015

There are 37 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) Entropy (information theory)		54.3675
2	Russian (ru) Информационная энтропия		47.8997
3	Czech (cs) Informační entropie		46.5535
4	Ukrainian (uk) Інформаційна ентропія		41.1209
5	Arabic (ar) اعتلاج (نظرية المعلومات)		39.1825
6	Chinese (zh) 熵 (信息论)		33.7711
7	Catalan (ca) Entropia de Shannon		32.7795
8	German (de) Entropie (Informationstheorie)		32.2294
9	Spanish (es) Entropía (información)		29.1202
10	Galician (gl) Entropía da información		28.2952

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Entropy (information theory)		10 571 988
2	Spanish (es) Entropía (información)		1 931 919
3	Russian (ru) Информационная энтропия		1 651 109
4	German (de) Entropie (Informationstheorie)		1 305 644
5	Japanese (ja) 情報量		962 399
6	Chinese (zh) 熵 (信息论)		899 422
7	French (fr) Entropie de Shannon		714 735
8	Polish (pl) Entropia (teoria informacji)		588 052
9	Italian (it) Entropia (teoria dell'informazione)		445 778
10	Portuguese (pt) Entropia da informação		228 877

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) Entropy (information theory)		30 625
2	German (de) Entropie (Informationstheorie)		2 573
3	French (fr) Entropie de Shannon		2 424
4	Russian (ru) Информационная энтропия		2 221
5	Chinese (zh) 熵 (信息论)		1 976
6	Japanese (ja) 情報量		1 871
7	Spanish (es) Entropía (información)		1 024
8	Italian (it) Entropia (teoria dell'informazione)		833
9	Polish (pl) Entropia (teoria informacji)		763
10	Korean (ko) 정보 엔트로피		539

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Entropy (information theory)		544
2	German (de) Entropie (Informationstheorie)		160
3	French (fr) Entropie de Shannon		122
4	Italian (it) Entropia (teoria dell'informazione)		111
5	Spanish (es) Entropía (información)		82
6	Russian (ru) Информационная энтропия		79
7	Chinese (zh) 熵 (信息论)		61
8	Polish (pl) Entropia (teoria informacji)		50
9	Japanese (ja) 情報量		43
10	Hebrew (he) אנטרופיה (סטטיסטיקה)		41

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) Entropy (information theory)		3
2	Italian (it) Entropia (teoria dell'informazione)		3
3	Arabic (ar) اعتلاج (نظرية المعلومات)		1
4	Persian (fa) آنتروپی اطلاعات		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Ентропия на Шанън		0
6	Catalan (ca) Entropia de Shannon		0
7	Czech (cs) Informační entropie		0
8	Danish (da) Entropi (informationsteori)		0
9	German (de) Entropie (Informationstheorie)		0
10	Greek (el) Εντροπία πληροφοριών		0

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

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