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Defendant

Quality:

Defendant - accused party in a legal case. Article “Defendant” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.02 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Defendant”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 487 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 95 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2896 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #4138 in December 2019
  • Global: #9495 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #2725 in May 2009
  • Global: #60149 in March 2010

There are 30 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1French (fr)
Accusé
24.3294
2Hindi (hi)
अभियुक्त
23.8192
3Croatian (hr)
Optuženik
22.0622
4German (de)
Beklagter
21.6493
5Estonian (et)
Kostja
18.9766
6Finnish (fi)
Vastaaja
18.7267
7Indonesian (id)
Terdakwa
18.7113
8Russian (ru)
Ответчик
18.2429
9English (en)
Defendant
17.5105
10Japanese (ja)
被告
16.6728
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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 "Defendant" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defendant
1 822 111
2Portuguese (pt)
Réu
468 105
3Russian (ru)
Ответчик
244 806
4Japanese (ja)
被告
225 910
5Italian (it)
Convenuto
154 601
6Polish (pl)
Pozwany
127 651
7German (de)
Beklagter
119 896
8Chinese (zh)
被告
109 622
9Persian (fa)
خوانده
82 217
10Ukrainian (uk)
Відповідач
52 764
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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 June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Defendant" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defendant
3 501
2Japanese (ja)
被告
549
3Russian (ru)
Ответчик
434
4Portuguese (pt)
Réu
350
5Persian (fa)
خوانده
346
6Chinese (zh)
被告
321
7Turkish (tr)
Sanık
314
8German (de)
Beklagter
145
9Korean (ko)
피고
133
10Hindi (hi)
अभियुक्त
119
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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 "Defendant" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Defendant
116
2German (de)
Beklagter
45
3Japanese (ja)
被告
27
4French (fr)
Accusé
25
5Italian (it)
Convenuto
25
6Dutch (nl)
Gedaagde
22
7Russian (ru)
Ответчик
22
8Portuguese (pt)
Réu
21
9Chinese (zh)
被告
21
10Vietnamese (vi)
Bị cáo
18
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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 June 2025

Language versions of the article "Defendant" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Azerbaijani (az)
Müttəhim
1
2Arabic (ar)
متهم
0
3Czech (cs)
Žalovaný
0
4German (de)
Beklagter
0
5English (en)
Defendant
0
6Estonian (et)
Kostja
0
7Persian (fa)
خوانده
0
8Finnish (fi)
Vastaaja
0
9French (fr)
Accusé
0
10Hebrew (he)
נאשם
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 "Defendant" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Defendant
1 014
2Japanese (ja)
被告
249
3Chinese (zh)
被告
243
4Portuguese (pt)
Réu
191
5French (fr)
Accusé
163
6Korean (ko)
피고
158
7Simple English (simple)
Defendant
95
8German (de)
Beklagter
90
9Russian (ru)
Ответчик
82
10Hebrew (he)
נאשם
60
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
متهم
azAzerbaijani
Müttəhim
csCzech
Žalovaný
deGerman
Beklagter
enEnglish
Defendant
etEstonian
Kostja
faPersian
خوانده
fiFinnish
Vastaaja
frFrench
Accusé
heHebrew
נאשם
hiHindi
अभियुक्त
hrCroatian
Optuženik
hyArmenian
Ամբաստանյալ
idIndonesian
Terdakwa
itItalian
Convenuto
jaJapanese
被告
koKorean
피고
nlDutch
Gedaagde
plPolish
Pozwany
ptPortuguese
Réu
ruRussian
Ответчик
simpleSimple English
Defendant
skSlovak
Žalovaný
srSerbian
Okrivljena osoba
svSwedish
Svarande
trTurkish
Sanık
ukUkrainian
Відповідач
urUrdu
ملزم
viVietnamese
Bị cáo
zhChinese
被告

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2725
05.2009
Global:
#60149
03.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#4138
12.2019
Global:
#9495
02.2002

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Defendant from Wikipedia articles about Plaintiff, Prosecutor, List of suspects in the Ergenekon investigation, Lawsuit and Depp v. Heard. Whereas reading the article about Defendant people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Plaintiff, Criminal procedure, Civil procedure, Legal capacity and Prosecutor.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

pt: Réu
ja: 被告
zh: 被告
tr: Sanık
ko: 피고
et: Kostja
simple: Defendant

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