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The Will to Believe

Quality:

The Will to Believe - 1896 lecture by William James. This book is the 7803rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Will to Believe” in German Wikipedia has 33.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 7803rd most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “The Will to Believe” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Will to Believe”, its content was written by 18 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 97 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Will to Believe is on the 7803rd place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 6 times in German Wikipedia and cited 52 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #36578 in June 2012
  • Global: #150771 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #122617 in February 2022
  • Global: #143798 in August 2010

There are 4 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
The Will to Believe
33.6745
2English (en)
The Will to Believe
27.6753
3Arabic (ar)
إرادة الاعتقاد
9.4945
4Persian (fa)
اراده برای باور
8.5688
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "The Will to Believe" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Will to Believe
628 960
2German (de)
The Will to Believe
19 418
3Arabic (ar)
إرادة الاعتقاد
11 218
4Persian (fa)
اراده برای باور
837
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "The Will to Believe" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Will to Believe
1 616
2German (de)
The Will to Believe
74
3Arabic (ar)
إرادة الاعتقاد
42
4Persian (fa)
اراده برای باور
21
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "The Will to Believe" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Will to Believe
74
2German (de)
The Will to Believe
18
3Arabic (ar)
إرادة الاعتقاد
4
4Persian (fa)
اراده برای باور
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "The Will to Believe" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
The Will to Believe
1
2Arabic (ar)
إرادة الاعتقاد
0
3English (en)
The Will to Believe
0
4Persian (fa)
اراده برای باور
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "The Will to Believe" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Will to Believe
38
2Arabic (ar)
إرادة الاعتقاد
6
3German (de)
The Will to Believe
6
4Persian (fa)
اراده برای باور
2
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
إرادة الاعتقاد
deGerman
The Will to Believe
enEnglish
The Will to Believe
faPersian
اراده برای باور

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#122617
02.2022
Global:
#143798
08.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#36578
06.2012
Global:
#150771
03.2011

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Will to Believe from Wikipedia articles about William James, Self-fulfilling prophecy, William Kingdon Clifford, Pascals Wager and Will. Whereas reading the article about The Will to Believe people most often go to Wikipedia articles on William James, Pascals Wager, Faith, Fideism and Doxastic voluntarism.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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About WikiRank

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