Skype

Quality:

Skype - former telecommunications software service. This website is the 33^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 43^rd most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia and the 15^th most popular software in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Skype” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.16 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6437^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6667^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 43^rd most popular in websites in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 15^th most popular in software in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2491^st most popular in all topics.

The 741^st most popular in AI.

The 33^rd most popular in websites.

The 9^th most popular in software.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3238^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Skype” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3238^th place) and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Skype”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6667^th place) and edited by 7149 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (741^st place).

Skype is on the 43^rd place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 33^rd place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

Skype is on the 15^th place in local ranking of software in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 9^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 24 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10408 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1218 in June 2014
• Global: #66 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #187 in November 2010
• Global: #226 in March 2012

There are 52 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) Skype		93.8416
2	Chinese (zh) Skype		86.6149
3	German (de) Skype		84
4	Hungarian (hu) Skype		82.8571
5	Arabic (ar) سكايب		74.5863
6	Russian (ru) Skype		70.4226
7	Hindi (hi) स्काइप		66.0268
8	Vietnamese (vi) Skype		55.3759
9	French (fr) Skype		50.8235
10	Estonian (et) Skype		45.6396

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Skype		26 921 471
2	Russian (ru) Skype		6 163 197
3	Japanese (ja) Skype		5 174 767
4	German (de) Skype		4 606 460
5	Spanish (es) Skype		3 724 889
6	French (fr) Skype		3 340 614
7	Italian (it) Skype		1 620 263
8	Portuguese (pt) Skype		1 407 465
9	Chinese (zh) Skype		879 564
10	Polish (pl) Skype		862 804

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) Skype		34 967
2	Russian (ru) Skype		5 073
3	French (fr) Skype		3 516
4	Japanese (ja) Skype		3 086
5	German (de) Skype		2 960
6	Spanish (es) Skype		2 628
7	Chinese (zh) Skype		1 583
8	Italian (it) Skype		1 540
9	Portuguese (pt) Skype		1 480
10	Polish (pl) Skype		1 081

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Skype		2 204
2	German (de) Skype		783
3	Russian (ru) Skype		483
4	French (fr) Skype		395
5	Italian (it) Skype		294
6	Chinese (zh) Skype		240
7	Japanese (ja) Skype		228
8	Spanish (es) Skype		222
9	Dutch (nl) Skype		202
10	Hebrew (he) סקייפ		150

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) Skype		4
2	Persian (fa) اسکایپ		3
3	Turkish (tr) Skype		2
4	Arabic (ar) سكايب		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Skype		1
6	Estonian (et) Skype		1
7	Basque (eu) Skype		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Skype		1
9	Indonesian (id) Skype		1
10	Lithuanian (lt) Skype		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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