Abdication

Quality:

Abdication - voluntary or forced renunciation of sovereign power. Article “Abdication” in French Wikipedia has 23.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Since the creation of article “Abdication”, its content was written by 83 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1212 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 475 times in French Wikipedia and cited 6553 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #917 in July 2013
• Global: #236 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #11873 in June 2014
• Global: #7181 in September 2022

There are 40 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	English (en) Abdication		48.05
2	Polish (pl) Abdykacja		38.2514
3	Japanese (ja) 退位		35.7416
4	Thai (th) การสละราชสมบัติ		33.5785
5	Simple English (simple) Abdication		33.5689
6	Norwegian (no) Abdikasjon		26.0384
7	Galician (gl) Abdicación		25.26
8	French (fr) Abdication		23.776
9	German (de) Abdikation		23.0151
10	Kazakh (kk) Абдикация		21.2473

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Abdication		4 406 790
2	Spanish (es) Abdicación		884 702
3	Polish (pl) Abdykacja		526 949
4	Italian (it) Abdicazione		253 847
5	Dutch (nl) Abdicatie		225 494
6	French (fr) Abdication		220 194
7	Japanese (ja) 退位		200 961
8	German (de) Abdikation		190 584
9	Portuguese (pt) Abdicação		181 941
10	Czech (cs) Abdikace		121 667

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) Abdication		16 633
2	Spanish (es) Abdicación		1 004
3	German (de) Abdikation		834
4	Polish (pl) Abdykacja		634
5	Chinese (zh) 逊位		580
6	Japanese (ja) 退位		540
7	Russian (ru) Абдикация		475
8	French (fr) Abdication		472
9	Italian (it) Abdicazione		417
10	Simple English (simple) Abdication		374

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Abdication		242
2	German (de) Abdikation		102
3	French (fr) Abdication		83
4	Dutch (nl) Abdicatie		80
5	Italian (it) Abdicazione		64
6	Spanish (es) Abdicación		59
7	Polish (pl) Abdykacja		59
8	Japanese (ja) 退位		55
9	Russian (ru) Абдикация		45
10	Norwegian (no) Abdikasjon		44

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	Korean (ko) 퇴위		1
2	Portuguese (pt) Abdicação		1
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Abdikacija		1
4	Ukrainian (uk) Абдикація		1
5	Arabic (ar) التنازل عن العرش		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Abdikasiya		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Абдикация		0
8	Catalan (ca) Abdicació		0
9	Czech (cs) Abdikace		0
10	Danish (da) Abdikation		0

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

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