Legalization

Legalization - process of removing a legal prohibition against something which is currently not legal. Article “Legalization” in English Wikipedia has 9.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.51 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Legalization”, its content was written by 60 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 170 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 251 times in English Wikipedia and cited 473 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19804 in April 2003
• Global: #26037 in August 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #247027 in March 2009
• Global: #148229 in August 2013

There are 11 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	Swedish (sv) Legalisering		23.1734
2	Norwegian (no) Legalisering		22.5708
3	Kazakh (kk) Легализация		21.8748
4	Malay (ms) Pengesahan		17.0199
5	Hebrew (he) לגליזציה		16.4765
6	Vietnamese (vi) Hợp pháp hóa		12.0547
7	English (en) Legalization		9.6179
8	Russian (ru) Легализация		1.4048
9	Czech (cs) Legalizace		1.1595
10	Korean (ko) 합법화		1.0062

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Legalization		359 039
2	Russian (ru) Легализация		305 571
3	Hebrew (he) לגליזציה		117 553
4	German (de) Legalisierung		71 847
5	Czech (cs) Legalizace		35 592
6	Swedish (sv) Legalisering		20 809
7	Kazakh (kk) Легализация		6 233
8	Vietnamese (vi) Hợp pháp hóa		4 336
9	Norwegian (no) Legalisering		2 537
10	Malay (ms) Pengesahan		2 421

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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 "Legalization" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Legalization		1 481
2	Russian (ru) Легализация		398
3	German (de) Legalisierung		124
4	Hebrew (he) לגליזציה		124
5	Czech (cs) Legalizace		40
6	Vietnamese (vi) Hợp pháp hóa		39
7	Malay (ms) Pengesahan		32
8	Norwegian (no) Legalisering		20
9	Korean (ko) 합법화		17
10	Swedish (sv) Legalisering		15

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Legalization		60
2	Hebrew (he) לגליזציה		29
3	German (de) Legalisierung		25
4	Russian (ru) Легализация		15
5	Swedish (sv) Legalisering		14
6	Czech (cs) Legalizace		12
7	Norwegian (no) Legalisering		7
8	Kazakh (kk) Легализация		3
9	Malay (ms) Pengesahan		2
10	Vietnamese (vi) Hợp pháp hóa		2

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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 "Legalization" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Legalizace		0
2	German (de) Legalisierung		0
3	English (en) Legalization		0
4	Hebrew (he) לגליזציה		0
5	Kazakh (kk) Легализация		0
6	Korean (ko) 합법화		0
7	Malay (ms) Pengesahan		0
8	Norwegian (no) Legalisering		0
9	Russian (ru) Легализация		0
10	Swedish (sv) Legalisering		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 "Legalization" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Legalization		251
2	Hebrew (he) לגליזציה		97
3	German (de) Legalisierung		47
4	Malay (ms) Pengesahan		15
5	Swedish (sv) Legalisering		15
6	Vietnamese (vi) Hợp pháp hóa		12
7	Norwegian (no) Legalisering		10
8	Russian (ru) Легализация		10
9	Czech (cs) Legalizace		9
10	Korean (ko) 합법화		6

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Legalizace
de	German Legalisierung
en	English Legalization
he	Hebrew לגליזציה
kk	Kazakh Легализация
ko	Korean 합법화
ms	Malay Pengesahan
no	Norwegian Legalisering
ru	Russian Легализация
sv	Swedish Legalisering
vi	Vietnamese Hợp pháp hóa

Best Rank

English: #247027 03.2009

Global: #148229 08.2013

Best Rank

English: #19804 04.2003

Global: #26037 08.2004

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