Yellow vests protests

Quality:

Yellow vests movement - 2018 social movement started in France. This event is the 613^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 903^rd most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Yellow vests protests” in English Wikipedia has 91.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 549 references and 32 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.82 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 903^rd most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 613^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “Yellow vests protests” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Yellow vests protests”, its content was written by 610 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2158 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Yellow vests movement is on the 903^rd place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 613^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1755 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3719 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3 in December 2018
• Global: #1 in December 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #105 in December 2018
• Global: #58 in December 2018

There are 42 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	French (fr) Mouvement des Gilets jaunes		100
2	Chinese (zh) 黃背心運動		98.514
3	German (de) Gelbwestenbewegung		92.8571
4	English (en) Yellow vests protests		91.4864
5	Japanese (ja) 黄色いベスト運動		84.1816
6	Croatian (hr) Pokret žutih prsluka		81.14
7	Turkish (tr) Sarı yelekliler hareketi		78.2928
8	Spanish (es) Movimiento de los chalecos amarillos		71.2373
9	Dutch (nl) Protestbeweging van de gele hesjes		65.2954
10	Finnish (fi) Keltaisten liivien liike		63.0017

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Yellow vests protests		4 164 760
2	French (fr) Mouvement des Gilets jaunes		3 352 043
3	German (de) Gelbwestenbewegung		655 198
4	Spanish (es) Movimiento de los chalecos amarillos		610 005
5	Chinese (zh) 黃背心運動		549 737
6	Russian (ru) Движение жёлтых жилетов		518 460
7	Italian (it) Movimento dei gilet gialli		323 117
8	Japanese (ja) 黄色いベスト運動		260 700
9	Dutch (nl) Protestbeweging van de gele hesjes		222 233
10	Portuguese (pt) Movimento dos coletes amarelos		142 082

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) Yellow vests protests		12 742
2	French (fr) Mouvement des Gilets jaunes		9 359
3	German (de) Gelbwestenbewegung		1 631
4	Russian (ru) Движение жёлтых жилетов		1 597
5	Spanish (es) Movimiento de los chalecos amarillos		1 474
6	Chinese (zh) 黃背心運動		1 013
7	Italian (it) Movimento dei gilet gialli		882
8	Japanese (ja) 黄色いベスト運動		825
9	Polish (pl) Ruch żółtych kamizelek		670
10	Portuguese (pt) Movimento dos coletes amarelos		503

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Yellow vests protests		610
2	French (fr) Mouvement des Gilets jaunes		599
3	German (de) Gelbwestenbewegung		173
4	Italian (it) Movimento dei gilet gialli		70
5	Russian (ru) Движение жёлтых жилетов		67
6	Spanish (es) Movimiento de los chalecos amarillos		66
7	Chinese (zh) 黃背心運動		61
8	Dutch (nl) Protestbeweging van de gele hesjes		55
9	Japanese (ja) 黄色いベスト運動		50
10	Hebrew (he) מחאת האפודים הצהובים		40

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	French (fr) Mouvement des Gilets jaunes		4
2	English (en) Yellow vests protests		3
3	Polish (pl) Ruch żółtych kamizelek		3
4	Russian (ru) Движение жёлтых жилетов		3
5	Finnish (fi) Keltaisten liivien liike		2
6	Galician (gl) Movemento dos chalecos amarelos		1
7	Japanese (ja) 黄色いベスト運動		1
8	Arabic (ar) حركة السترات الصفراء		0
9	Belarusian (be) Рух жоўтых камізэлек		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Жълти жилетки		0

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

On 12 August 2025 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Cristiano Ronaldo, Wednesday, Georgina Rodríguez, ChatGPT, Weapons, Jenna Ortega, deaths in 2025, Taylor Swift, Miguel Uribe Turbay, 2025–26 UEFA Champions League.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Weapons (2025 film), Danielle Spencer (American actress), Cristiano Ronaldo, Deaths in 2025, Taylor Swift, Wednesday (TV series), Superman (2025 film), Georgina Rodríguez, Coolie (2025 film), The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information