Godwins lov

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Godwin's law - Godwin's Law is known to be the oldest meme on the Internet, made by Mike Godwin. The memes meaning is to say: The longer an online conversation continues, The more of a chance there is to mention Hitler.. Article “Godwins lov” in Danish Wikipedia has 12.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.66 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Godwins lov”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Danish Wikipedia and edited by 2390 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Danish Wikipedia and cited 818 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Danish): #210 in May 2018
• Global: #735 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Danish): #2246 in August 2008
• Global: #3201 in May 2016

There are 39 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) Godwin's law		38.7208
2	Esperanto (eo) Leĝo de Godwin		35.3887
3	German (de) Godwin’s law		33.3979
4	French (fr) Loi de Godwin		32.4501
5	Russian (ru) Закон Годвина		29.5266
6	Italian (it) Legge di Godwin		29.4924
7	Simple English (simple) Godwin's law		28.9452
8	Malay (ms) Hukum Godwin		28.0089
9	Croatian (hr) Godwinov zakon		27.2325
10	Catalan (ca) Llei de Godwin		26.4383

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Godwin's law		14 391 668
2	French (fr) Loi de Godwin		3 690 674
3	German (de) Godwin’s law		1 395 371
4	Russian (ru) Закон Годвина		989 738
5	Spanish (es) Ley de Godwin		883 362
6	Polish (pl) Prawo Godwina		640 079
7	Dutch (nl) Wet van Godwin		508 567
8	Portuguese (pt) Lei de Godwin		495 746
9	Swedish (sv) Godwins lag		252 867
10	Japanese (ja) ゴドウィンの法則		223 505

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) Godwin's law		17 982
2	French (fr) Loi de Godwin		9 122
3	Russian (ru) Закон Годвина		3 559
4	Japanese (ja) ゴドウィンの法則		1 863
5	German (de) Godwin’s law		1 741
6	Simple English (simple) Godwin's law		1 289
7	Dutch (nl) Wet van Godwin		1 145
8	Spanish (es) Ley de Godwin		975
9	Polish (pl) Prawo Godwina		824
10	Portuguese (pt) Lei de Godwin		553

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Godwin's law		926
2	French (fr) Loi de Godwin		320
3	German (de) Godwin’s law		270
4	Russian (ru) Закон Годвина		108
5	Dutch (nl) Wet van Godwin		82
6	Polish (pl) Prawo Godwina		71
7	Spanish (es) Ley de Godwin		69
8	Hebrew (he) חוק גודווין		67
9	Italian (it) Legge di Godwin		60
10	Swedish (sv) Godwins lag		39

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) Godwin's law		5
2	Azerbaijani (az) Qodvin qanunu		1
3	Japanese (ja) ゴドウィンの法則		1
4	Arabic (ar) قانون جودوين		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Закон на Годуин		0
6	Catalan (ca) Llei de Godwin		0
7	Czech (cs) Godwinův zákon		0
8	Danish (da) Godwins lov		0
9	German (de) Godwin’s law		0
10	Greek (el) Νόμος του Γκόντγουιν		0

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

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