loc.gov in June 2020
The Library of Congress is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. The library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. The library's functions are overseen by the librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the architect of the Capitol. The Library of Congress is one of the largest libraries in the world. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 450 languages." More information...
Multilingual Wikipedia
In June 2020 the website loc.gov was on the 90th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 127th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "loc.gov" is the 100th most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before tvline.com and after thefutoncritic.com in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
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127th placeEnglish Wikipedia
Arabic Wikipedia
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115th place 87th placeFrench Wikipedia
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About project
Popularity and reliability assessment of sources in references of Wikipedia in different languages. Data extraction based on complex method using Wikimedia dumps in July 2020. To find the most popular and reliable sources we used information about over 200 million references of Wikipedia articles. More details in the research "Modeling Popularity and Reliability of Sources in Multilingual Wikipedia". Values for PR-score and AR-score were additinaly increased 100 times (to distinguish smaller values in the ranking).