Bellingcat

Quality:

Bellingcat - investigative open source intelligence group. This website is the 756^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 399^th most popular website in German Wikipedia. Article “Bellingcat” in German Wikipedia has 71.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 68 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 399^th most popular in websites in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 756^th most popular in websites.

In June 2025 the article “Bellingcat” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Bellingcat”, its content was written by 96 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 586 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Bellingcat is on the 399^th place in local ranking of websites in German Wikipedia and on the 756^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 96 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1622 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #111 in June 2015
• Global: #2260 in December 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #3328 in March 2022
• Global: #6467 in March 2022

There are 22 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) Bellingcat		89.6278
2	Korean (ko) 벨링캣		86.1538
3	German (de) Bellingcat		71.0556
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bellingcat		70.1362
5	Bulgarian (bg) Белингкат		69.7691
6	Spanish (es) Bellingcat		60.6635
7	French (fr) Bellingcat		58.8308
8	Ukrainian (uk) Bellingcat		58.1182
9	Chinese (zh) 啤令貓		57.5683
10	Russian (ru) Bellingcat		54.3076

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bellingcat		1 378 556
2	Russian (ru) Bellingcat		448 125
3	German (de) Bellingcat		264 987
4	Dutch (nl) Bellingcat		124 788
5	Japanese (ja) ベリングキャット		101 634
6	Ukrainian (uk) Bellingcat		72 148
7	French (fr) Bellingcat		60 738
8	Czech (cs) Bellingcat		28 862
9	Finnish (fi) Bellingcat		22 373
10	Polish (pl) Bellingcat		21 955

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) Bellingcat		11 056
2	Russian (ru) Bellingcat		1 531
3	German (de) Bellingcat		1 442
4	Japanese (ja) ベリングキャット		910
5	French (fr) Bellingcat		490
6	Dutch (nl) Bellingcat		425
7	Bulgarian (bg) Белингкат		332
8	Chinese (zh) 啤令貓		265
9	Spanish (es) Bellingcat		225
10	Polish (pl) Bellingcat		185

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bellingcat		219
2	German (de) Bellingcat		96
3	Russian (ru) Bellingcat		78
4	French (fr) Bellingcat		37
5	Ukrainian (uk) Bellingcat		33
6	Dutch (nl) Bellingcat		23
7	Czech (cs) Bellingcat		16
8	Norwegian (no) Bellingcat		16
9	Japanese (ja) ベリングキャット		12
10	Finnish (fi) Bellingcat		9

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	German (de) Bellingcat		3
2	English (en) Bellingcat		2
3	Chinese (zh) 啤令貓		2
4	Russian (ru) Bellingcat		1
5	Ukrainian (uk) Bellingcat		1
6	Arabic (ar) بيلنجكات		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Белингкат		0
8	Catalan (ca) Bellingcat		0
9	Czech (cs) Bellingcat		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Bellingcat		0

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

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