Contract killing

Quality:

Contract killing - form of murder, homicide. Article “Contract killing” in English Wikipedia has 30.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 5 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Contract killing” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Contract killing”, its content was written by 699 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 983 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1885 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3025 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2356 in January 2022
• Global: #8005 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3330 in March 2008
• Global: #8022 in March 2008

There are 16 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) Auftragsmord		41.5289
2	English (en) Contract killing		30.1332
3	Estonian (et) Palgamõrv		28.6617
4	Czech (cs) Nájemná vražda		27.7798
5	Romanian (ro) Asasinare la comandă		26.2642
6	Kazakh (kk) Жалдамалылық		21.3367
7	Arabic (ar) قتل مأجور		19.4165
8	Greek (el) Συμβόλαιο θανάτου		18.8964
9	Urdu (ur) کرائے کے قتل		10.4157
10	Danish (da) Lejemord		8.4565

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Contract killing		9 353 092
2	German (de) Auftragsmord		705 698
3	Korean (ko) 청부살인		51 353
4	Arabic (ar) قتل مأجور		29 303
5	Persian (fa) قتل قراردادی		29 095
6	Greek (el) Συμβόλαιο θανάτου		20 321
7	Danish (da) Lejemord		12 753
8	Simple English (simple) Contract killing		12 265
9	Czech (cs) Nájemná vražda		10 859
10	Kazakh (kk) Жалдамалылық		5 351

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) Contract killing		33 760
2	German (de) Auftragsmord		1 988
3	Czech (cs) Nájemná vražda		351
4	Simple English (simple) Contract killing		303
5	Persian (fa) قتل قراردادی		259
6	Arabic (ar) قتل مأجور		177
7	Korean (ko) 청부살인		117
8	Ukrainian (uk) Вбивство на замовлення		110
9	Greek (el) Συμβόλαιο θανάτου		75
10	Romanian (ro) Asasinare la comandă		35

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Contract killing		699
2	German (de) Auftragsmord		200
3	Arabic (ar) قتل مأجور		14
4	Danish (da) Lejemord		14
5	Greek (el) Συμβόλαιο θανάτου		12
6	Simple English (simple) Contract killing		12
7	Persian (fa) قتل قراردادی		7
8	Korean (ko) 청부살인		6
9	Azerbaijani (az) Sifarişli qətl		4
10	Estonian (et) Palgamõrv		3

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) Contract killing		3
2	Arabic (ar) قتل مأجور		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Sifarişli qətl		0
4	Czech (cs) Nájemná vražda		0
5	Danish (da) Lejemord		0
6	German (de) Auftragsmord		0
7	Greek (el) Συμβόλαιο θανάτου		0
8	Estonian (et) Palgamõrv		0
9	Persian (fa) قتل قراردادی		0
10	Kazakh (kk) Жалдамалылық		0

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

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