Geiselnahme von Gladbeck

Quality:

Gladbeck hostage crisis - bank robbery and subsequent two-day hostage taking in West Germany and the Netherlands in August 1988. Article “Geiselnahme von Gladbeck” in German Wikipedia has 94.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 103 references and 23 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Geiselnahme von Gladbeck” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Geiselnahme von Gladbeck”, its content was written by 417 registered users of German Wikipedia (3273^rd place) and edited by 601 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 87 times in German Wikipedia and cited 123 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #20 in March 2018
• Global: #2215 in March 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #2 in March 2018
• Global: #343 in March 2018

There are 11 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	German (de) Geiselnahme von Gladbeck		94.2857
2	English (en) Gladbeck hostage crisis		84.707
3	French (fr) Prise d'otages de Gladbeck		65.1827
4	Spanish (es) Crisis de rehenes de Gladbeck		53.6317
5	Czech (cs) Únos rukojmích v Gladbecku		33.655
6	Italian (it) Rapina alla banca di Gladbeck		31.5
7	Portuguese (pt) Crise dos reféns de Gladbeck		28.0666
8	Hungarian (hu) Gladbecki túszdráma		24.1699
9	Dutch (nl) Gijzeling van Gladbeck		23.3856
10	Swedish (sv) Gisslandramat i Gladbeck		14.4356

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Geiselnahme von Gladbeck		4 906 479
2	English (en) Gladbeck hostage crisis		1 014 160
3	Dutch (nl) Gijzeling van Gladbeck		135 470
4	French (fr) Prise d'otages de Gladbeck		96 470
5	Italian (it) Rapina alla banca di Gladbeck		24 839
6	Portuguese (pt) Crise dos reféns de Gladbeck		13 615
7	Norwegian (no) Gisseldramaet i Gladbeck		12 342
8	Swedish (sv) Gisslandramat i Gladbeck		7 922
9	Spanish (es) Crisis de rehenes de Gladbeck		3 911
10	Czech (cs) Únos rukojmích v Gladbecku		3 833

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Geiselnahme von Gladbeck		12 311
2	English (en) Gladbeck hostage crisis		3 087
3	Dutch (nl) Gijzeling van Gladbeck		352
4	French (fr) Prise d'otages de Gladbeck		243
5	Spanish (es) Crisis de rehenes de Gladbeck		102
6	Italian (it) Rapina alla banca di Gladbeck		99
7	Portuguese (pt) Crise dos reféns de Gladbeck		75
8	Hungarian (hu) Gladbecki túszdráma		51
9	Czech (cs) Únos rukojmích v Gladbecku		38
10	Swedish (sv) Gisslandramat i Gladbeck		31

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Geiselnahme von Gladbeck		417
2	English (en) Gladbeck hostage crisis		62
3	Dutch (nl) Gijzeling van Gladbeck		36
4	French (fr) Prise d'otages de Gladbeck		29
5	Italian (it) Rapina alla banca di Gladbeck		23
6	Czech (cs) Únos rukojmích v Gladbecku		9
7	Portuguese (pt) Crise dos reféns de Gladbeck		7
8	Spanish (es) Crisis de rehenes de Gladbeck		5
9	Norwegian (no) Gisseldramaet i Gladbeck		5
10	Hungarian (hu) Gladbecki túszdráma		4

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) Geiselnahme von Gladbeck		1
2	Spanish (es) Crisis de rehenes de Gladbeck		1
3	French (fr) Prise d'otages de Gladbeck		1
4	Czech (cs) Únos rukojmích v Gladbecku		0
5	English (en) Gladbeck hostage crisis		0
6	Hungarian (hu) Gladbecki túszdráma		0
7	Italian (it) Rapina alla banca di Gladbeck		0
8	Dutch (nl) Gijzeling van Gladbeck		0
9	Norwegian (no) Gisseldramaet i Gladbeck		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Crise dos reféns de Gladbeck		0

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

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