Contact (1997)

Quality:

Contact - 1997 film by Robert Zemeckis. This film is the 1213^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films. Article “Contact (1997)” in German Wikipedia has 36.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.9 points.

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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 1213^th most popular in films.

In June 2025 the article “Contact (1997)” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Contact (1997)”, its content was written by 154 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1796 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Contact is on the 1213^th place in global ranking of films on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 143 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2764 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2107 in April 2022
• Global: #7050 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1220 in July 2015
• Global: #6528 in November 2014

There are 41 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) Contact (1997 American film)		83.6879
2	Chinese (zh) 超時空接觸		76.9037
3	Greek (el) Επαφή (ταινία, 1997)		67.499
4	Basque (eu) Contact (1997ko filma)		67.3158
5	Spanish (es) Contact (película)		65.7621
6	French (fr) Contact (film, 1997)		37.275
7	German (de) Contact (1997)		36.0793
8	Norwegian (no) Kontakt (film)		33.4187
9	Catalan (ca) Contact (pel·lícula de 1997)		32.9235
10	Slovenian (sl) Stik (film)		28.5358

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contact (1997 American film)		6 801 516
2	Russian (ru) Контакт (фильм)		2 089 151
3	Spanish (es) Contact (película)		1 532 846
4	German (de) Contact (1997)		1 378 727
5	Japanese (ja) コンタクト (映画)		1 056 231
6	Italian (it) Contact (film)		1 054 348
7	French (fr) Contact (film, 1997)		733 866
8	Portuguese (pt) Contact		399 290
9	Chinese (zh) 超時空接觸		345 724
10	Polish (pl) Kontakt (film 1997)		176 852

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) Contact (1997 American film)		48 925
2	French (fr) Contact (film, 1997)		10 766
3	Russian (ru) Контакт (фильм)		7 183
4	Spanish (es) Contact (película)		3 906
5	German (de) Contact (1997)		3 370
6	Japanese (ja) コンタクト (映画)		3 138
7	Italian (it) Contact (film)		2 483
8	Chinese (zh) 超時空接觸		1 610
9	Turkish (tr) Mesaj (film)		1 577
10	Portuguese (pt) Contact		1 555

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contact (1997 American film)		583
2	German (de) Contact (1997)		154
3	French (fr) Contact (film, 1997)		134
4	Italian (it) Contact (film)		114
5	Russian (ru) Контакт (фильм)		93
6	Spanish (es) Contact (película)		87
7	Japanese (ja) コンタクト (映画)		62
8	Hungarian (hu) Kapcsolat (film)		53
9	Dutch (nl) Contact (film)		53
10	Portuguese (pt) Contact		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) Contact (1997 American film)		3
2	Greek (el) Επαφή (ταινία, 1997)		2
3	Russian (ru) Контакт (фильм)		2
4	German (de) Contact (1997)		1
5	Spanish (es) Contact (película)		1
6	Galician (gl) Contact		1
7	Hebrew (he) קונטקט (סרט)		1
8	Italian (it) Contact (film)		1
9	Korean (ko) 콘택트 (영화)		1
10	Dutch (nl) Contact (film)		1

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

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