Wacken Open Air

Quality:

Wacken Open Air - open-air metal music festival in Germany. This event is the 853^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 90^th most popular event in German Wikipedia. Article “Wacken Open Air” in German Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 145 references and 45 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.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 4489^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 1961^st most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 90^th most popular in events in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 853^rd most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 4048^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Wacken Open Air” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Wacken Open Air”, its content was written by 496 registered users of German Wikipedia (1961^st place) and edited by 1838 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wacken Open Air is on the 90^th place in local ranking of events in German Wikipedia and on the 853^rd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 900 times in German Wikipedia and cited 4517 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #23 in August 2007
• Global: #1605 in August 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #17 in August 2023
• Global: #3698 in August 2023

There are 33 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) Wacken Open Air		100
2	English (en) Wacken Open Air		90.1203
3	Greek (el) Wacken Open Air		78.9817
4	Spanish (es) Wacken Open Air		78.877
5	French (fr) Wacken Open Air		74.396
6	Polish (pl) Wacken Open Air		58.3857
7	Chinese (zh) 瓦肯音乐节		58.3475
8	Indonesian (id) Wacken Open Air		54.7643
9	Portuguese (pt) Wacken Open Air		53.0598
10	Danish (da) Wacken Open Air		47.208

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Wacken Open Air		3 518 670
2	English (en) Wacken Open Air		2 539 900
3	Spanish (es) Wacken Open Air		667 952
4	Russian (ru) Wacken Open Air		312 410
5	French (fr) Wacken Open Air		297 702
6	Portuguese (pt) Wacken Open Air		245 592
7	Italian (it) Wacken Open Air		183 706
8	Polish (pl) Wacken Open Air		152 760
9	Japanese (ja) ヴァッケン・オープン・エア		125 902
10	Finnish (fi) Wacken Open Air		97 759

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) Wacken Open Air		14 082
2	English (en) Wacken Open Air		9 999
3	French (fr) Wacken Open Air		1 786
4	Spanish (es) Wacken Open Air		1 452
5	Russian (ru) Wacken Open Air		727
6	Finnish (fi) Wacken Open Air		721
7	Dutch (nl) Wacken Open Air		463
8	Italian (it) Wacken Open Air		461
9	Portuguese (pt) Wacken Open Air		456
10	Japanese (ja) ヴァッケン・オープン・エア		437

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Wacken Open Air		496
2	English (en) Wacken Open Air		408
3	French (fr) Wacken Open Air		137
4	Italian (it) Wacken Open Air		98
5	Spanish (es) Wacken Open Air		88
6	Dutch (nl) Wacken Open Air		83
7	Portuguese (pt) Wacken Open Air		61
8	Finnish (fi) Wacken Open Air		49
9	Russian (ru) Wacken Open Air		49
10	Polish (pl) Wacken Open Air		47

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) Wacken Open Air		2
2	Czech (cs) Wacken Open Air		1
3	Portuguese (pt) Wacken Open Air		1
4	Swedish (sv) Wacken Open Air		1
5	Arabic (ar) مهرجان واكين		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Wacken Open Air		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Фестивал във Вакен		0
8	Catalan (ca) Wacken Open Air		0
9	Danish (da) Wacken Open Air		0
10	Greek (el) Wacken Open Air		0

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

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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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information