Baptism

Quality:

Baptism - Christian rite of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water. Article “Baptism” in English Wikipedia has 68.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 462 references and 40 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 29.17 points.

This article has the best quality in Hindi Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4191^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5685^th most popular in all topics.

The 2215^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9962^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Baptism” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages (9962^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Baptism”, its content was written by 1184 registered users of English Wikipedia (4191^st place) and edited by 4876 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2215^th place).

The article is cited 6607 times in English Wikipedia (3258^th place) and cited 43962 times in all languages (3652^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #844 in January 2004
• Global: #642 in February 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4652 in January 2011
• Global: #2337 in January 2011

There are 50 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	Hindi (hi) बपतिस्मा		95
2	German (de) Taufe		93.8717
3	Polish (pl) Chrzest		81.4695
4	Finnish (fi) Kaste		75.4268
5	English (en) Baptism		68.064
6	Russian (ru) Крещение		65.1896
7	Italian (it) Battesimo		63.8474
8	Indonesian (id) Baptis		62.3898
9	French (fr) Baptême		61.0999
10	Spanish (es) Bautismo		53.9577

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Baptism		12 180 873
2	Spanish (es) Bautismo		4 921 632
3	Russian (ru) Крещение		3 135 942
4	German (de) Taufe		2 360 328
5	Portuguese (pt) Batismo		1 749 642
6	French (fr) Baptême		1 677 453
7	Italian (it) Battesimo		1 337 572
8	Japanese (ja) 洗礼		1 295 440
9	Polish (pl) Chrzest		1 268 365
10	Indonesian (id) Baptis		1 058 192

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) Baptism		32 348
2	Russian (ru) Крещение		6 203
3	Spanish (es) Bautismo		4 984
4	German (de) Taufe		3 960
5	Japanese (ja) 洗礼		3 896
6	French (fr) Baptême		3 591
7	Chinese (zh) 洗禮		2 833
8	Portuguese (pt) Batismo		2 094
9	Italian (it) Battesimo		1 826
10	Arabic (ar) معمودية		1 798

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Baptism		1 184
2	German (de) Taufe		460
3	French (fr) Baptême		312
4	Spanish (es) Bautismo		264
5	Italian (it) Battesimo		230
6	Dutch (nl) Doop (sacrament)		199
7	Russian (ru) Крещение		191
8	Polish (pl) Chrzest		149
9	Finnish (fi) Kaste		140
10	Portuguese (pt) Batismo		129

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) Taufe		4
2	English (en) Baptism		3
3	Greek (el) Βάπτισμα		2
4	Persian (fa) غسل تعمید		2
5	Italian (it) Battesimo		2
6	Dutch (nl) Doop (sacrament)		2
7	Czech (cs) Křest		1
8	Esperanto (eo) Bapto		1
9	Finnish (fi) Kaste		1
10	Indonesian (id) Baptis		1

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

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