Lynching

Quality:

Lynching - premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group. Article “Lynching” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 2 sections.

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 “Lynching”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2409 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 54 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10071 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #664 in October 2018
• Global: #4714 in October 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3320 in June 2020
• Global: #3370 in June 2020

There are 46 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) Lynchage et loi de Lynch		85.5006
2	English (en) Lynching		84.8576
3	Chinese (zh) 私刑		65.3364
4	Spanish (es) Linchamiento		61.5022
5	Japanese (ja) 私刑		61.1206
6	Italian (it) Linciaggio		55.9817
7	Malay (ms) Lincing		53.0459
8	Hebrew (he) לינץ'		42.4281
9	Swedish (sv) Lynchning		40.6204
10	Dutch (nl) Lynchen		37.8336

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lynching		10 751 556
2	Russian (ru) Суд Линча		3 150 946
3	Japanese (ja) 私刑		1 370 534
4	German (de) Lynchjustiz		1 239 020
5	French (fr) Lynchage et loi de Lynch		807 769
6	Spanish (es) Linchamiento		558 401
7	Italian (it) Linciaggio		431 528
8	Portuguese (pt) Linchamento		396 307
9	Dutch (nl) Lynchen		391 903
10	Swedish (sv) Lynchning		259 410

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) Lynching		38 627
2	Russian (ru) Суд Линча		10 792
3	Japanese (ja) 私刑		3 877
4	German (de) Lynchjustiz		2 622
5	French (fr) Lynchage et loi de Lynch		2 242
6	Italian (it) Linciaggio		2 024
7	Spanish (es) Linchamiento		1 840
8	Chinese (zh) 私刑		1 371
9	Portuguese (pt) Linchamento		861
10	Persian (fa) لینچ‌کردن		771

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lynching		1 002
2	French (fr) Lynchage et loi de Lynch		184
3	German (de) Lynchjustiz		145
4	Japanese (ja) 私刑		118
5	Russian (ru) Суд Линча		99
6	Hebrew (he) לינץ'		88
7	Dutch (nl) Lynchen		82
8	Spanish (es) Linchamiento		66
9	Italian (it) Linciaggio		63
10	Norwegian (no) Lynsjing		46

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	English (en) Lynching		4
2	Spanish (es) Linchamiento		1
3	Russian (ru) Суд Линча		1
4	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Linč		1
5	Serbian (sr) Линчовање		1
6	Chinese (zh) 私刑		1
7	Arabic (ar) إعدام دون محاكمة		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Linç		0
9	Belarusian (be) Суд Лінча		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Линчуване		0

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

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