Consequentialism

Quality:

Consequentialism - class of ethical theory basing standards of right & wrong on the consequences of actions. Article "Consequentialism" in English Wikipedia has 77.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 78 references and 25 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In July 2024 the article "Consequentialism" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Consequentialism", its content was written by 405 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 868 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 952 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4642 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #27 in February 2001
• Global: #27 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #381 in December 2014
• Global: #1815 in December 2014

There are 34 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Consequentialism		77.2555
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Konsekvencijalizam		68.7411
3	Serbian (sr) Консеквенцијализам		43.5762
4	Latin (la) Consequentialismus		38.6935
5	French (fr) Conséquentialisme		33.2055
6	Indonesian (id) Konsekuensialisme		26.9178
7	Arabic (ar) عواقبية		25.2836
8	Hindi (hi) परिणामवाद		24.633
9	Spanish (es) Consecuencialismo		24.4612
10	Persian (fa) پیامدگرایی		23.5463

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Consequentialism		5 923 835
2	Spanish (es) Consecuencialismo		439 573
3	French (fr) Conséquentialisme		322 123
4	Russian (ru) Консеквенциализм		313 846
5	German (de) Konsequentialismus		302 890
6	Swedish (sv) Konsekventialism		224 323
7	Dutch (nl) Gevolgenethiek		221 026
8	Japanese (ja) 帰結主義		175 150
9	Finnish (fi) Seurausetiikka		153 702
10	Chinese (zh) 結果主義		139 168

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) Consequentialism		11 841
2	Russian (ru) Консеквенциализм		2 189
3	Spanish (es) Consecuencialismo		1 082
4	Japanese (ja) 帰結主義		972
5	French (fr) Conséquentialisme		962
6	Chinese (zh) 結果主義		891
7	German (de) Konsequentialismus		682
8	Simple English (simple) Consequentialism		450
9	Persian (fa) پیامدگرایی		421
10	Portuguese (pt) Consequencialismo		357

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Consequentialism		405
2	French (fr) Conséquentialisme		67
3	Spanish (es) Consecuencialismo		51
4	German (de) Konsequentialismus		46
5	Dutch (nl) Gevolgenethiek		35
6	Italian (it) Consequenzialismo		31
7	Swedish (sv) Konsekventialism		25
8	Russian (ru) Консеквенциализм		22
9	Finnish (fi) Seurausetiikka		20
10	Japanese (ja) 帰結主義		19

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	English (en) Consequentialism		3
2	Spanish (es) Consecuencialismo		2
3	Swedish (sv) Konsekventialism		2
4	Czech (cs) Konsekvencialismus		1
5	Dutch (nl) Gevolgenethiek		1
6	Russian (ru) Консеквенциализм		1
7	Arabic (ar) عواقبية		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Консеквенциализъм		0
9	Danish (da) Konsekvensetik		0
10	German (de) Konsequentialismus		0

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

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