Auction

Quality:

Auction - process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder. Article “Auction” in English Wikipedia has 95.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 208 references and 35 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Auction” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Auction”, its content was written by 605 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2423 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2448 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12374 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2831 in June 2022
• Global: #3107 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #832 in November 2014
• Global: #3037 in November 2014

There are 46 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, 2026 (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) Auction		95.4208
2	Czech (cs) Dražba		54.1956
3	German (de) Auktion		51.8653
4	French (fr) Enchère		45.7215
5	Malay (ms) Lelong		42.9312
6	Russian (ru) Аукцион		36.3926
7	Chinese (zh) 拍卖		35.4122
8	Tamil (ta) ஏலம் (வணிகம்)		34.9675
9	Persian (fa) مزایده		30.2493
10	Italian (it) Asta (compravendita)		28.2286

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Auction		4 841 405
2	Russian (ru) Аукцион		1 210 956
3	German (de) Auktion		1 057 098
4	Japanese (ja) 競売		912 096
5	Spanish (es) Subasta		780 710
6	French (fr) Enchère		535 374
7	Portuguese (pt) Leilão		331 952
8	Persian (fa) مزایده		235 871
9	Polish (pl) Aukcja		235 219
10	Indonesian (id) Lelang		214 924

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) Auction		5 796
2	Russian (ru) Аукцион		1 534
3	German (de) Auktion		1 109
4	Japanese (ja) 競売		1 078
5	Chinese (zh) 拍卖		723
6	French (fr) Enchère		676
7	Spanish (es) Subasta		571
8	Persian (fa) مزایده		395
9	Greek (el) Πλειστηριασμός		181
10	Italian (it) Asta (compravendita)		179

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Auction		605
2	German (de) Auktion		344
3	French (fr) Enchère		177
4	Dutch (nl) Veiling		110
5	Russian (ru) Аукцион		109
6	Spanish (es) Subasta		82
7	Japanese (ja) 競売		77
8	Italian (it) Asta (compravendita)		75
9	Czech (cs) Dražba		64
10	Persian (fa) مزایده		55

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) Auction		4
2	Italian (it) Asta (compravendita)		1
3	Arabic (ar) مزاد		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Auksion		0
5	Belarusian (be) Аўкцыён		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Търг		0
7	Catalan (ca) Subhasta		0
8	Czech (cs) Dražba		0
9	Danish (da) Auktion		0
10	German (de) Auktion		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information