Witch-hunt

Quality:

Hunt of the witches - search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, or mass hysteria. Article "Witch-hunt" in English Wikipedia has 91.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 209 references and 20 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7477^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9427^th most popular in all topics.

The 3813^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5329^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Witch-hunt" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 32 authors in all languages (5329^th place).

Since the creation of article "Witch-hunt", its content was written by 915 registered users of English Wikipedia (7477^th place) and edited by 3918 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3813^th place).

The article is cited 1764 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9013 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3 in October 2001
• Global: #3 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #10035 in September 2008
• Global: #3452 in May 2014

There are 41 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	Swedish (sv) Häxprocess		96.3636
2	German (de) Hexenverfolgung		95
3	French (fr) Chasse aux sorcières		92.7791
4	English (en) Witch-hunt		91.1066
5	Hebrew (he) ציד מכשפות		77.2155
6	Portuguese (pt) Caça às bruxas		66.9892
7	Spanish (es) Caza de brujas		63.8429
8	Danish (da) Heksejagt		59.3443
9	Italian (it) Caccia alle streghe		59.2723
10	Vietnamese (vi) Săn phù thủy		57.38

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Witch-hunt		6 120 648
2	German (de) Hexenverfolgung		5 234 717
3	Japanese (ja) 魔女狩り		3 793 216
4	Spanish (es) Caza de brujas		1 982 907
5	Russian (ru) Охота на ведьм		1 601 830
6	Italian (it) Caccia alle streghe		1 331 310
7	French (fr) Chasse aux sorcières		1 195 775
8	Portuguese (pt) Caça às bruxas		963 914
9	Polish (pl) Proces o czary		862 382
10	Chinese (zh) 獵巫		651 921

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) Witch-hunt		20 665
2	German (de) Hexenverfolgung		14 943
3	Japanese (ja) 魔女狩り		12 668
4	Spanish (es) Caza de brujas		8 559
5	Russian (ru) Охота на ведьм		8 070
6	French (fr) Chasse aux sorcières		4 370
7	Italian (it) Caccia alle streghe		3 822
8	Chinese (zh) 獵巫		3 687
9	Portuguese (pt) Caça às bruxas		2 679
10	Polish (pl) Proces o czary		2 672

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Witch-hunt		915
2	German (de) Hexenverfolgung		758
3	French (fr) Chasse aux sorcières		310
4	Italian (it) Caccia alle streghe		264
5	Japanese (ja) 魔女狩り		135
6	Polish (pl) Proces o czary		134
7	Russian (ru) Охота на ведьм		128
8	Swedish (sv) Häxprocess		125
9	Norwegian (no) Hekseprosessene		111
10	Spanish (es) Caza de brujas		110

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	German (de) Hexenverfolgung		8
2	Chinese (zh) 獵巫		4
3	French (fr) Chasse aux sorcières		3
4	Spanish (es) Caza de brujas		2
5	Italian (it) Caccia alle streghe		2
6	Korean (ko) 마녀사냥		2
7	Portuguese (pt) Caça às bruxas		2
8	Thai (th) การล่าแม่มด		2
9	Czech (cs) Čarodějnické procesy		1
10	Greek (el) Κυνήγι μαγισσών		1

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

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