SWL

Shortwave listening - hobby of listening to shortwave radio broadcasts. Article “SWL” in Hungarian Wikipedia has 24.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “SWL”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Hungarian Wikipedia and edited by 337 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Hungarian Wikipedia and cited 446 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Hungarian): #25658 in April 2025
• Global: #33767 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Hungarian): #104792 in February 2025
• Global: #22247 in August 2011

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	English (en) Shortwave listening		51.625
2	French (fr) Radioécouteur		48.7032
3	Spanish (es) Escucha de onda corta		35.7735
4	Russian (ru) Наблюдатель (любительское радио)		30.6346
5	Portuguese (pt) Escuta de ondas curtas		29.071
6	Hungarian (hu) SWL		24.1581
7	Japanese (ja) BCL		21.5025
8	Italian (it) Shortwave listening		20.0225
9	Korean (ko) 단파 청취		3.0513

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

The most popular language versions of the article "SWL" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shortwave listening		637 171
2	Japanese (ja) BCL		585 078
3	French (fr) Radioécouteur		171 292
4	Korean (ko) 단파 청취		43 821
5	Russian (ru) Наблюдатель (любительское радио)		29 850
6	Italian (it) Shortwave listening		21 922
7	Portuguese (pt) Escuta de ondas curtas		836
8	Spanish (es) Escucha de onda corta		588
9	Hungarian (hu) SWL		458

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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 "SWL" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shortwave listening		3 012
2	Japanese (ja) BCL		1 108
3	French (fr) Radioécouteur		198
4	Russian (ru) Наблюдатель (любительское радио)		166
5	Korean (ko) 단파 청취		124
6	Spanish (es) Escucha de onda corta		117
7	Portuguese (pt) Escuta de ondas curtas		109
8	Italian (it) Shortwave listening		54
9	Hungarian (hu) SWL		21

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shortwave listening		139
2	Japanese (ja) BCL		73
3	French (fr) Radioécouteur		65
4	Korean (ko) 단파 청취		26
5	Italian (it) Shortwave listening		20
6	Russian (ru) Наблюдатель (любительское радио)		7
7	Spanish (es) Escucha de onda corta		4
8	Hungarian (hu) SWL		2
9	Portuguese (pt) Escuta de ondas curtas		1

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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 "SWL" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shortwave listening		2
2	Japanese (ja) BCL		2
3	Spanish (es) Escucha de onda corta		0
4	French (fr) Radioécouteur		0
5	Hungarian (hu) SWL		0
6	Italian (it) Shortwave listening		0
7	Korean (ko) 단파 청취		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Escuta de ondas curtas		0
9	Russian (ru) Наблюдатель (любительское радио)		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 "SWL" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Radioécouteur		106
2	Japanese (ja) BCL		104
3	Russian (ru) Наблюдатель (любительское радио)		100
4	English (en) Shortwave listening		75
5	Italian (it) Shortwave listening		31
6	Korean (ko) 단파 청취		16
7	Hungarian (hu) SWL		6
8	Spanish (es) Escucha de onda corta		4
9	Portuguese (pt) Escuta de ondas curtas		4

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#	Language	Value
en	English Shortwave listening
es	Spanish Escucha de onda corta
fr	French Radioécouteur
hu	Hungarian SWL
it	Italian Shortwave listening
ja	Japanese BCL
ko	Korean 단파 청취
pt	Portuguese Escuta de ondas curtas
ru	Russian Наблюдатель (любительское радио)

Best Rank

Hungarian: #104792 02.2025

Global: #22247 08.2011

Best Rank

Hungarian: #25658 04.2025

Global: #33767 02.2004

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