VLC media player

Quality:

VLC media player - free/libre and open-source cross-platform media player, streaming client, streaming media server and audio and video converter (transcoder). This software is the 43^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 48^th most popular software in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “VLC media player” in Simple English Wikipedia has 34.1 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 1.8 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:

The 48^th most popular in software in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8063^rd most popular in AI.

The 43^rd most popular in software.

Since the creation of article “VLC media player”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2814 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8063^rd place).

VLC media player is on the 48^th place in local ranking of software in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 43^rd place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2077 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #565 in October 2010
• Global: #983 in August 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1979 in January 2025
• Global: #1733 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, 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) VLC media player		94.2857
2	Hindi (hi) वीएलसी मीडिया प्लेयर		74.1723
3	Greek (el) VLC media player		65.1796
4	Armenian (hy) VLC մեդիա նվագարկիչ		64.922
5	Russian (ru) VLC		52.8006
6	French (fr) VLC media player		52.6471
7	Korean (ko) VLC 미디어 플레이어		51.0207
8	Norwegian (no) VLC media player		47.7434
9	German (de) VLC media player		45.7138
10	Chinese (zh) VLC多媒體播放器		43.6755

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) VLC media player		10 773 391
2	German (de) VLC media player		2 207 092
3	Japanese (ja) VLCメディアプレーヤー		1 755 396
4	French (fr) VLC media player		1 599 137
5	Spanish (es) VLC media player		1 318 409
6	Russian (ru) VLC		1 130 737
7	Italian (it) VLC media player		726 227
8	Portuguese (pt) VLC		413 969
9	Chinese (zh) VLC多媒體播放器		348 006
10	Dutch (nl) VLC media player		278 700

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		42 365
2	Russian (ru) VLC		9 996
3	German (de) VLC media player		4 928
4	French (fr) VLC media player		4 582
5	Japanese (ja) VLCメディアプレーヤー		3 856
6	Spanish (es) VLC media player		3 490
7	Chinese (zh) VLC多媒體播放器		1 587
8	Portuguese (pt) VLC		1 182
9	Italian (it) VLC media player		1 118
10	Polish (pl) VLC media player		851

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		694
2	German (de) VLC media player		268
3	French (fr) VLC media player		236
4	Italian (it) VLC media player		155
5	Russian (ru) VLC		148
6	Spanish (es) VLC media player		99
7	Dutch (nl) VLC media player		95
8	Japanese (ja) VLCメディアプレーヤー		85
9	Norwegian (no) VLC media player		71
10	Chinese (zh) VLC多媒體播放器		66

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	Portuguese (pt) VLC		2
2	Russian (ru) VLC		2
3	German (de) VLC media player		1
4	English (en) VLC media player		1
5	Spanish (es) VLC media player		1
6	Arabic (ar) مشغل الوسائط في إل سي		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) VLC media player		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) VLC media player		0
9	Catalan (ca) VLC media player		0
10	Czech (cs) VLC media player		0

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

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