Colonialism

Quality:

Colonialism - domination, control, and exploitation of a territory and its people by a foreign power often accompanied by the settlement of other peoples and crimes against humanity. Article “Colonialism” in English Wikipedia has 79.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 226 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 13.99 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4258^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5668^th most popular in all topics.

The 3109^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6190^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Colonialism” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 26 authors in all languages (6190^th place).

Since the creation of article “Colonialism”, its content was written by 1209 registered users of English Wikipedia (4258^th place) and edited by 4459 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3109^th place).

The article is cited 4543 times in English Wikipedia (5696^th place) and cited 31285 times in all languages (5441^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #602 in May 2021
• Global: #498 in March 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7179 in April 2008
• Global: #3628 in April 2008

There are 54 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	Esperanto (eo) Koloniismo		100
2	Korean (ko) 식민주의		99.8873
3	German (de) Kolonialismus		94.659
4	English (en) Colonialism		79.3001
5	Finnish (fi) Kolonialismi		73.1963
6	French (fr) Colonialisme		67.5537
7	Greek (el) Αποικιοκρατία		65.1311
8	Bulgarian (bg) Колониализъм		63.6675
9	Latin (la) Colonialismus		63.5085
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chủ nghĩa thực dân		62.0114

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Colonialism		11 673 402
2	Spanish (es) Colonialismo		6 554 959
3	German (de) Kolonialismus		3 752 377
4	Indonesian (id) Kolonialisme		1 785 518
5	Italian (it) Colonialismo		1 657 901
6	Russian (ru) Колониализм		1 609 302
7	Portuguese (pt) Colonialismo		1 421 780
8	Turkish (tr) Sömürgecilik		1 165 766
9	French (fr) Colonialisme		985 962
10	Polish (pl) Kolonializm		968 208

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) Colonialism		20 459
2	German (de) Kolonialismus		7 837
3	Spanish (es) Colonialismo		2 929
4	Persian (fa) استعمار		2 839
5	Russian (ru) Колониализм		2 679
6	Turkish (tr) Sömürgecilik		1 653
7	Japanese (ja) 植民地主義		1 643
8	Italian (it) Colonialismo		1 578
9	French (fr) Colonialisme		1 449
10	Chinese (zh) 殖民主义		1 282

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Colonialism		1 209
2	German (de) Kolonialismus		470
3	French (fr) Colonialisme		314
4	Spanish (es) Colonialismo		287
5	Italian (it) Colonialismo		255
6	Hebrew (he) קולוניאליזם		126
7	Swedish (sv) Kolonialism		126
8	Persian (fa) استعمار		112
9	Russian (ru) Колониализм		111
10	Turkish (tr) Sömürgecilik		111

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) Colonialism		7
2	Japanese (ja) 植民地主義		3
3	Italian (it) Colonialismo		2
4	Korean (ko) 식민주의		2
5	Arabic (ar) استعمارية		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Kolonializm		1
7	German (de) Kolonialismus		1
8	Greek (el) Αποικιοκρατία		1
9	Esperanto (eo) Koloniismo		1
10	Spanish (es) Colonialismo		1

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

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