Conspiracy theory

Quality:

Conspiracy theory - explanation that invokes a conspiracy. Article "Conspiracy theory" in English Wikipedia has 93.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 372 references and 34 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5990^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1395^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3427^th most popular in all topics.

The 875^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6835^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4576^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1701^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Conspiracy theory" was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 56 authors in all languages (1701^st place).

Since the creation of article "Conspiracy theory", its content was written by 1706 registered users of English Wikipedia (1395^th place) and edited by 6522 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (875^th place).

The article is cited 4279 times in English Wikipedia (5545^th place) and cited 18429 times in all languages (8666^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #21 in August 2003
• Global: #137 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2665 in June 2008
• Global: #502 in October 2017

There are 53 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 August 1, 2024 (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	French (fr) Théorie du complot		93.9781
2	English (en) Conspiracy theory		93.8779
3	German (de) Verschwörungstheorie		86.2308
4	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da conspiração		83.5796
5	Chinese (zh) 陰謀論		79.1667
6	Czech (cs) Konspirační teorie		77.1401
7	Slovak (sk) Konšpiračná teória		75.5826
8	Russian (ru) Теория заговора		74.1499
9	Spanish (es) Teoría conspirativa		72.7342
10	Japanese (ja) 陰謀論		72.4038

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Conspiracy theory		17 621 099
2	Russian (ru) Теория заговора		4 684 977
3	French (fr) Théorie du complot		4 037 556
4	German (de) Verschwörungstheorie		3 777 991
5	Spanish (es) Teoría conspirativa		2 842 475
6	Japanese (ja) 陰謀論		2 092 609
7	Italian (it) Teoria del complotto		1 970 333
8	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da conspiração		1 627 049
9	Chinese (zh) 陰謀論		948 880
10	Indonesian (id) Teori konspirasi		870 461

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) Conspiracy theory		93 057
2	Russian (ru) Теория заговора		19 754
3	German (de) Verschwörungstheorie		15 322
4	French (fr) Théorie du complot		12 475
5	Spanish (es) Teoría conspirativa		10 817
6	Japanese (ja) 陰謀論		10 524
7	Italian (it) Teoria del complotto		7 725
8	Persian (fa) تئوری توطئه		6 942
9	Portuguese (pt) Teoria da conspiração		5 366
10	Chinese (zh) 陰謀論		4 399

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Conspiracy theory		1 706
2	German (de) Verschwörungstheorie		800
3	French (fr) Théorie du complot		603
4	Russian (ru) Теория заговора		355
5	Italian (it) Teoria del complotto		317
6	Spanish (es) Teoría conspirativa		287
7	Japanese (ja) 陰謀論		234
8	Hebrew (he) תאוריית קשר		222
9	Dutch (nl) Complottheorie		200
10	Polish (pl) Teoria spiskowa		149

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) Conspiracy theory		8
2	Italian (it) Teoria del complotto		7
3	Hebrew (he) תאוריית קשר		6
4	Russian (ru) Теория заговора		6
5	Dutch (nl) Complottheorie		5
6	German (de) Verschwörungstheorie		4
7	French (fr) Théorie du complot		4
8	Swedish (sv) Konspirationsteori		4
9	Arabic (ar) نظرية المؤامرة		2
10	Azerbaijani (az) Konspirasiya nəzəriyyəsi		1

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

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