Ab initio

Ab initio - Latin term meaning "from the beginning". Article “Ab initio” in German Wikipedia has 2.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Ab initio”, its content was written by 45 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 261 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 55 times in German Wikipedia and cited 519 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #4748 in July 2003
• Global: #11260 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #92032 in February 2008
• Global: #65450 in July 2009

There are 15 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, 2026 (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	Basque (eu) Ab initio		25.4801
2	Romanian (ro) Ab initio		18.7469
3	English (en) Ab initio		18.7408
4	Arabic (ar) منذ البدء		14.8154
5	Czech (cs) Ab initio		14.3505
6	Chinese (zh) Ab initio		12.3834
7	Ukrainian (uk) Ab initio		11.6645
8	Spanish (es) Ab initio		8.9743
9	Turkish (tr) Ab initio		6.3035
10	Russian (ru) Ab initio		4.0971

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ab initio" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ab initio		1 874 288
2	Spanish (es) Ab initio		238 081
3	French (fr) Ab initio		182 768
4	German (de) Ab initio		154 931
5	Japanese (ja) Ab initio		121 103
6	Russian (ru) Ab initio		92 254
7	Italian (it) Ab initio		76 082
8	Indonesian (id) Ab initio		18 399
9	Arabic (ar) منذ البدء		10 843
10	Chinese (zh) Ab initio		10 474

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Ab initio" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ab initio		2 058
2	French (fr) Ab initio		339
3	German (de) Ab initio		219
4	Russian (ru) Ab initio		190
5	Japanese (ja) Ab initio		184
6	Spanish (es) Ab initio		176
7	Italian (it) Ab initio		86
8	Chinese (zh) Ab initio		70
9	Czech (cs) Ab initio		33
10	Turkish (tr) Ab initio		16

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Ab initio" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ab initio		51
2	German (de) Ab initio		45
3	Russian (ru) Ab initio		38
4	French (fr) Ab initio		26
5	Italian (it) Ab initio		20
6	Spanish (es) Ab initio		18
7	Japanese (ja) Ab initio		18
8	Indonesian (id) Ab initio		12
9	Arabic (ar) منذ البدء		11
10	Ukrainian (uk) Ab initio		9

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Ab initio" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Ab initio		1
2	Arabic (ar) منذ البدء		0
3	Czech (cs) Ab initio		0
4	German (de) Ab initio		0
5	English (en) Ab initio		0
6	Spanish (es) Ab initio		0
7	French (fr) Ab initio		0
8	Indonesian (id) Ab initio		0
9	Italian (it) Ab initio		0
10	Japanese (ja) Ab initio		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Ab initio" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ab initio		209
2	French (fr) Ab initio		56
3	German (de) Ab initio		55
4	Spanish (es) Ab initio		45
5	Russian (ru) Ab initio		36
6	Japanese (ja) Ab initio		29
7	Italian (it) Ab initio		23
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ab initio		23
9	Indonesian (id) Ab initio		13
10	Arabic (ar) منذ البدء		11

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic منذ البدء
cs	Czech Ab initio
de	German Ab initio
en	English Ab initio
es	Spanish Ab initio
eu	Basque Ab initio
fr	French Ab initio
id	Indonesian Ab initio
it	Italian Ab initio
ja	Japanese Ab initio
ro	Romanian Ab initio
ru	Russian Ab initio
tr	Turkish Ab initio
uk	Ukrainian Ab initio
zh	Chinese Ab initio

Best Rank

German: #92032 02.2008

Global: #65450 07.2009

Best Rank

German: #4748 07.2003

Global: #11260 05.2003

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In German Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Demokratische Republik Kongo, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2026, Senegal, Julian Nagelsmann, Erling Haaland, Sadio Mané, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1994, Jürgen Klopp, Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2028, Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information