Skype

Quality:

Skype - former telecommunications software service. This website is the 30^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 36^th most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia and the 16^th most popular software in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Skype” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.24 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 6212^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 7116^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 36^th most popular in websites in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 16^th most popular in software in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2358^th most popular in all topics.

The 724^th most popular in AI.

The 30^th most popular in websites.

The 11^th most popular in software.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9786^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6223^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Skype”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7116^th place) and edited by 7110 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (724^th place).

Skype is on the 36^th place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 30^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

Skype is on the 16^th place in local ranking of software in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 11^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10689 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1221 in June 2014
• Global: #66 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #189 in November 2010
• Global: #217 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, 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	English (en) Skype		94.0603
2	Chinese (zh) Skype		86.5913
3	Hungarian (hu) Skype		82.8571
4	German (de) Skype		80.0714
5	Arabic (ar) سكايب		74.859
6	Hindi (hi) स्काइप		73.7946
7	Russian (ru) Skype		70.0784
8	Vietnamese (vi) Skype		55.6706
9	French (fr) Skype		50.9779
10	Estonian (et) Skype		45.6714

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Skype		26 383 838
2	Russian (ru) Skype		6 046 929
3	Japanese (ja) Skype		5 128 729
4	German (de) Skype		4 548 627
5	Spanish (es) Skype		3 678 776
6	French (fr) Skype		3 281 717
7	Italian (it) Skype		1 596 620
8	Portuguese (pt) Skype		1 385 753
9	Chinese (zh) Skype		858 018
10	Polish (pl) Skype		843 477

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		57 102
2	Russian (ru) Skype		10 902
3	Spanish (es) Skype		7 133
4	German (de) Skype		5 553
5	French (fr) Skype		5 231
6	Japanese (ja) Skype		4 894
7	Portuguese (pt) Skype		3 572
8	Chinese (zh) Skype		2 811
9	Italian (it) Skype		2 794
10	Turkish (tr) Skype		2 201

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Skype		2 187
2	German (de) Skype		779
3	Russian (ru) Skype		481
4	French (fr) Skype		381
5	Italian (it) Skype		287
6	Chinese (zh) Skype		234
7	Japanese (ja) Skype		225
8	Spanish (es) Skype		218
9	Dutch (nl) Skype		201
10	Hebrew (he) סקייפ		148

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		6
2	French (fr) Skype		3
3	Polish (pl) Skype		3
4	Arabic (ar) سكايب		2
5	Hebrew (he) סקייפ		2
6	Dutch (nl) Skype		2
7	Portuguese (pt) Skype		2
8	Azerbaijani (az) Skype		1
9	Danish (da) Skype		1
10	Spanish (es) Skype		1

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

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In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Black, Alba Baptista, List of European countries, XXXTentacion, Golden Edge, SOLID (object-oriented design), Strait of Hormuz, Megan Skiendiel, Manon Bannerman, Chris Evans.

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information