Corruption

Quality:

Corruption - form of dishonesty or criminal offense undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one's private gain. Article “Corruption” in English Wikipedia has 84.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 241 references and 34 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.34 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7077^th most popular in all topics.

The 4750^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8875^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Corruption” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (8875^th place).

Since the creation of article “Corruption”, its content was written by 667 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3684 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4750^th place).

The article is cited 2572 times in English Wikipedia and cited 28377 times in all languages (5952^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1465 in October 2016
• Global: #700 in July 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7256 in October 2018
• Global: #3732 in December 2014

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 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	Korean (ko) 부정부패		92.6311
2	English (en) Corruption		84.073
3	German (de) Korruption		81.2453
4	Persian (fa) فساد		79.5925
5	Catalan (ca) Corrupció		66.5344
6	Indonesian (id) Korupsi		66.4753
7	French (fr) Corruption		63.8681
8	Russian (ru) Коррупция		61.8068
9	Polish (pl) Korupcja		60.9172
10	Finnish (fi) Korruptio		60.3553

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Corruption		9 910 149
2	Russian (ru) Коррупция		4 929 125
3	Indonesian (id) Korupsi		3 011 376
4	German (de) Korruption		2 378 557
5	French (fr) Corruption		2 120 993
6	Portuguese (pt) Corrupção		1 550 544
7	Polish (pl) Korupcja		1 190 476
8	Italian (it) Corruzione		906 023
9	Japanese (ja) 汚職		799 958
10	Spanish (es) Corrupción (abuso de poder)		633 874

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) Corruption		14 200
2	Russian (ru) Коррупция		3 817
3	German (de) Korruption		2 743
4	Spanish (es) Corrupción (abuso de poder)		2 189
5	Japanese (ja) 汚職		2 071
6	French (fr) Corruption		1 937
7	Chinese (zh) 贪污		1 100
8	Indonesian (id) Korupsi		1 077
9	Italian (it) Corruzione		1 014
10	Polish (pl) Korupcja		915

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Corruption		667
2	German (de) Korruption		418
3	French (fr) Corruption		304
4	Russian (ru) Коррупция		206
5	Italian (it) Corruzione		151
6	Japanese (ja) 汚職		115
7	Dutch (nl) Corruptie		113
8	Indonesian (id) Korupsi		101
9	Portuguese (pt) Corrupção		99
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tham nhũng		95

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	Croatian (hr) Korupcija		4
2	English (en) Corruption		3
3	French (fr) Corruption		2
4	Italian (it) Corruzione		2
5	Norwegian (no) Korrupsjon		2
6	Polish (pl) Korupcja		2
7	Serbian (sr) Корупција		2
8	Catalan (ca) Corrupció		1
9	Esperanto (eo) Korupto		1
10	Basque (eu) Ustelkeria		1

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

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