Vertical blanking interval

Vertical blanking interval - duration between the writing of the final row of one frame in a television signal and the writing of the inital row in the next frame, during which the display is allowed to reset and the display head to return to the frame start position. Article “Vertical blanking interval” in English Wikipedia has 23 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.21 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Vertical blanking interval”, its content was written by 57 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 169 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 281 times in English Wikipedia and cited 633 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #33908 in October 2003
• Global: #12695 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #137215 in January 2015
• Global: #159307 in June 2010

There are 9 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	Russian (ru) Кадровый гасящий импульс		24.2213
2	English (en) Vertical blanking interval		23.0345
3	French (fr) Intervalle de rafraîchissement vertical		11.5008
4	German (de) Austastlücke		9.939
5	Catalan (ca) Interval d'esborrat vertical		6.7573
6	Spanish (es) Intervalo de supresión vertical		5.4476
7	Korean (ko) 수직 귀선 기간		2.2061
8	Japanese (ja) 垂直帰線区間		1.9859
9	Chinese (zh) 垂直空白間隙		0.5258

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Vertical blanking interval" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vertical blanking interval		679 778
2	German (de) Austastlücke		128 516
3	Russian (ru) Кадровый гасящий импульс		72 926
4	Japanese (ja) 垂直帰線区間		50 568
5	Chinese (zh) 垂直空白間隙		18 440
6	Korean (ko) 수직 귀선 기간		17 833
7	French (fr) Intervalle de rafraîchissement vertical		15 435
8	Spanish (es) Intervalo de supresión vertical		4 509
9	Catalan (ca) Interval d'esborrat vertical		2 250

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Vertical blanking interval" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vertical blanking interval		2 414
2	German (de) Austastlücke		256
3	Russian (ru) Кадровый гасящий импульс		182
4	Japanese (ja) 垂直帰線区間		93
5	French (fr) Intervalle de rafraîchissement vertical		87
6	Chinese (zh) 垂直空白間隙		86
7	Spanish (es) Intervalo de supresión vertical		20
8	Korean (ko) 수직 귀선 기간		13
9	Catalan (ca) Interval d'esborrat vertical		7

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

Language versions of the article "Vertical blanking interval" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Vertical blanking interval		57
2	German (de) Austastlücke		43
3	Russian (ru) Кадровый гасящий импульс		19
4	Japanese (ja) 垂直帰線区間		13
5	Korean (ko) 수직 귀선 기간		11
6	Chinese (zh) 垂直空白間隙		10
7	French (fr) Intervalle de rafraîchissement vertical		6
8	Catalan (ca) Interval d'esborrat vertical		5
9	Spanish (es) Intervalo de supresión vertical		5

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

Language versions of the article "Vertical blanking interval" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Interval d'esborrat vertical		0
2	German (de) Austastlücke		0
3	English (en) Vertical blanking interval		0
4	Spanish (es) Intervalo de supresión vertical		0
5	French (fr) Intervalle de rafraîchissement vertical		0
6	Japanese (ja) 垂直帰線区間		0
7	Korean (ko) 수직 귀선 기간		0
8	Russian (ru) Кадровый гасящий импульс		0
9	Chinese (zh) 垂直空白間隙		0

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

Language versions of the article "Vertical blanking interval" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Vertical blanking interval		281
2	Russian (ru) Кадровый гасящий импульс		81
3	Japanese (ja) 垂直帰線区間		75
4	Korean (ko) 수직 귀선 기간		72
5	Chinese (zh) 垂直空白間隙		44
6	German (de) Austastlücke		43
7	French (fr) Intervalle de rafraîchissement vertical		15
8	Catalan (ca) Interval d'esborrat vertical		12
9	Spanish (es) Intervalo de supresión vertical		10

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Interval d'esborrat vertical
de	German Austastlücke
en	English Vertical blanking interval
es	Spanish Intervalo de supresión vertical
fr	French Intervalle de rafraîchissement vertical
ja	Japanese 垂直帰線区間
ko	Korean 수직 귀선 기간
ru	Russian Кадровый гасящий импульс
zh	Chinese 垂直空白間隙

Best Rank

English: #137215 01.2015

Global: #159307 06.2010

Best Rank

English: #33908 10.2003

Global: #12695 01.2004

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