Civil society

Quality:

Civil society - social activities of individuals or groups in which the state has no involvement; civil society is the collection of non-governmental organisations and institutions which are the will and desire of citizens. Article “Civil society” in English Wikipedia has 76.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 99 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.02 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Civil society” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Civil society”, its content was written by 381 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1993 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2200 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10886 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3872 in March 2023
• Global: #3278 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #24863 in April 2015
• Global: #7046 in November 2019

There are 48 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	Chinese (zh) 公民社会		80.5244
2	English (en) Civil society		76.2868
3	Hindi (hi) नागरिक समाज		70.535
4	Korean (ko) 시민 사회		66.1001
5	Turkish (tr) Sivil toplum		58.6361
6	Armenian (hy) Քաղաքացիական հասարակություն		57.157
7	Indonesian (id) Masyarakat madani		55.6714
8	Estonian (et) Kodanikuühiskond		51.6743
9	French (fr) Société civile		51.6637
10	Ukrainian (uk) Громадянське суспільство		44.7927

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Civil society		4 798 791
2	Spanish (es) Sociedad civil (ciencia política)		3 607 671
3	Russian (ru) Гражданское общество		3 051 698
4	Indonesian (id) Masyarakat madani		1 740 859
5	Ukrainian (uk) Громадянське суспільство		1 237 020
6	French (fr) Société civile		1 181 439
7	Polish (pl) Społeczeństwo obywatelskie		898 015
8	Arabic (ar) مجتمع مدني		848 265
9	Portuguese (pt) Sociedade civil		756 137
10	German (de) Zivilgesellschaft		554 315

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) Civil society		9 872
2	Russian (ru) Гражданское общество		2 788
3	French (fr) Société civile		2 367
4	Spanish (es) Sociedad civil (ciencia política)		1 321
5	German (de) Zivilgesellschaft		1 157
6	Chinese (zh) 公民社会		897
7	Polish (pl) Społeczeństwo obywatelskie		684
8	Indonesian (id) Masyarakat madani		671
9	Ukrainian (uk) Громадянське суспільство		668
10	Arabic (ar) مجتمع مدني		522

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Civil society		381
2	German (de) Zivilgesellschaft		182
3	French (fr) Société civile		148
4	Russian (ru) Гражданское общество		135
5	Spanish (es) Sociedad civil (ciencia política)		88
6	Dutch (nl) Burgermaatschappij		81
7	Ukrainian (uk) Громадянське суспільство		76
8	Polish (pl) Społeczeństwo obywatelskie		61
9	Chinese (zh) 公民社会		58
10	Turkish (tr) Sivil toplum		50

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	Korean (ko) 시민 사회		4
2	English (en) Civil society		3
3	German (de) Zivilgesellschaft		2
4	Spanish (es) Sociedad civil (ciencia política)		2
5	Armenian (hy) Քաղաքացիական հասարակություն		2
6	Serbian (sr) Civilno društvo		2
7	Arabic (ar) مجتمع مدني		1
8	Persian (fa) جامعه مدنی		1
9	Russian (ru) Гражданское общество		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Xã hội dân sự		1

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

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