Janissary

Quality:

Janissary - Member of an elite Ottoman military unit (active 1363–1826). Article "Janissary" in English Wikipedia has 83.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 102 references and 16 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 8941st most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article "Janissary", its content was written by 572 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2594 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8941st place).

The article is cited 1253 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8671 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #910 in April 2003
  • Global: #1789 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #8216 in January 2023
  • Global: #4547 in January 2023

There are 51 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Turkish (tr)
Yeniçeri
100
2English (en)
Janissary
83.4166
3Polish (pl)
Janczarzy
80.1398
4French (fr)
Janissaire
61.0426
5Malay (ms)
Janissari
48.9866
6Swedish (sv)
Janitsjarer
43.4308
7Serbo-Croatian (sh)
Janjičari
42.7376
8Chinese (zh)
耶尼切里
42.5407
9Persian (fa)
ینی‌چری
42.386
10Finnish (fi)
Janitsaarit
41.0198
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Janissary" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Janissary
6 662 018
2Turkish (tr)
Yeniçeri
2 653 107
3Russian (ru)
Янычары
1 934 634
4Arabic (ar)
إنكشارية
1 460 001
5German (de)
Janitscharen
1 384 442
6Spanish (es)
Jenízaros
1 156 586
7French (fr)
Janissaire
1 120 306
8Japanese (ja)
イェニチェリ
741 853
9Italian (it)
Giannizzeri
724 299
10Polish (pl)
Janczarzy
717 313
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Janissary" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Janissary
36 804
2Turkish (tr)
Yeniçeri
9 967
3Russian (ru)
Янычары
9 313
4French (fr)
Janissaire
6 406
5Arabic (ar)
إنكشارية
6 305
6German (de)
Janitscharen
6 293
7Spanish (es)
Jenízaros
5 471
8Italian (it)
Giannizzeri
3 357
9Japanese (ja)
イェニチェリ
2 977
10Persian (fa)
ینی‌چری
2 854
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Janissary" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Janissary
572
2German (de)
Janitscharen
221
3French (fr)
Janissaire
221
4Turkish (tr)
Yeniçeri
168
5Russian (ru)
Янычары
115
6Italian (it)
Giannizzeri
94
7Arabic (ar)
إنكشارية
86
8Dutch (nl)
Janitsaren
80
9Spanish (es)
Jenízaros
75
10Hungarian (hu)
Janicsár
69
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Janissary" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Polish (pl)
Janczarzy
3
2Bulgarian (bg)
Еничари
1
3Catalan (ca)
Genísser
1
4Finnish (fi)
Janitsaarit
1
5French (fr)
Janissaire
1
6Hindi (hi)
जाँनिसारी
1
7Ukrainian (uk)
Яничари
1
8Arabic (ar)
إنكشارية
0
9Azerbaijani (az)
Yeniçəri
0
10Belarusian (be)
Янычары
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Janissary" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Janissary
1 253
2French (fr)
Janissaire
654
3Turkish (tr)
Yeniçeri
557
4Russian (ru)
Янычары
508
5Arabic (ar)
إنكشارية
453
6Italian (it)
Giannizzeri
440
7German (de)
Janitscharen
392
8Spanish (es)
Jenízaros
347
9Azerbaijani (az)
Yeniçəri
276
10Ukrainian (uk)
Яничари
271
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
إنكشارية
azAzerbaijani
Yeniçəri
beBelarusian
Янычары
bgBulgarian
Еничари
caCatalan
Genísser
csCzech
Janičáři
daDanish
Janitshar (soldat)
deGerman
Janitscharen
elGreek
Γενίτσαροι
enEnglish
Janissary
eoEsperanto
Janiĉaroj
esSpanish
Jenízaros
etEstonian
Janitšarid
euBasque
Jenizaro
faPersian
ینی‌چری
fiFinnish
Janitsaarit
frFrench
Janissaire
glGalician
Xanízaro
heHebrew
יניצ'רים
hiHindi
जाँनिसारी
hrCroatian
Janjičari
huHungarian
Janicsár
hyArmenian
Ենիչերիներ
idIndonesian
Yanisari
itItalian
Giannizzeri
jaJapanese
イェニチェリ
kaGeorgian
იანიჩარები
kkKazakh
Жаңа шерік
koKorean
예니체리
laLatin
Ianizari
ltLithuanian
Janyčarai
msMalay
Janissari
nlDutch
Janitsaren
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Janitsjar
noNorwegian
Janitsjar
plPolish
Janczarzy
ptPortuguese
Janízaro
roRomanian
Ienicer
ruRussian
Янычары
shSerbo-Croatian
Janjičari
skSlovak
Janičiar
slSlovenian
Janičar
srSerbian
Јањичари
svSwedish
Janitsjarer
thThai
จานิสซารี
trTurkish
Yeniçeri
ukUkrainian
Яничари
urUrdu
ینی چری
uzUzbek
Yanicharlar
viVietnamese
Janissary
zhChinese
耶尼切里

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#8216
01.2023
Global:
#4547
01.2023

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#910
04.2003
Global:
#1789
12.2011

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Janissary from Wikipedia articles about Fall of Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Dracula Untold, Devşirme and Battle of Vienna. Whereas reading the article about Janissary people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Auspicious Incident, Devşirme, Yatagan, Sipahi and Mamluk.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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