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 74.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 245 references and 37 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 18.63 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6978^th most popular in all topics.

The 4887^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4749^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Corruption” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 30 authors in all languages (4749^th place).

Since the creation of article “Corruption”, its content was written by 625 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3581 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4887^th place).

The article is cited 2487 times in English Wikipedia and cited 26751 times in all languages (6152^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1461 in October 2016
• Global: #690 in July 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7208 in October 2018
• Global: #4214 in November 2018

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, 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) Korruption		81.8483
2	Persian (fa) فساد		78.7146
3	English (en) Corruption		74.5334
4	Indonesian (id) Korupsi		68.0016
5	Catalan (ca) Corrupció		66.4411
6	French (fr) Corruption		62.5411
7	Russian (ru) Коррупция		61.7051
8	Finnish (fi) Korruptio		60.4025
9	Portuguese (pt) Corrupção		58.3347
10	Ukrainian (uk) Корупція		55.6285

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Corruption		9 662 553
2	Russian (ru) Коррупция		4 399 843
3	Indonesian (id) Korupsi		2 978 560
4	German (de) Korruption		2 322 732
5	French (fr) Corruption		2 082 507
6	Portuguese (pt) Corrupção		1 534 005
7	Polish (pl) Korupcja		1 175 419
8	Italian (it) Corruzione		887 316
9	Japanese (ja) 汚職		768 656
10	Ukrainian (uk) Корупція		602 203

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		23 683
2	Spanish (es) Corrupción (abuso de poder)		8 103
3	Russian (ru) Коррупция		6 322
4	German (de) Korruption		2 908
5	French (fr) Corruption		2 650
6	Indonesian (id) Korupsi		2 538
7	Japanese (ja) 汚職		2 277
8	Chinese (zh) 贪污		1 648
9	Italian (it) Corruzione		1 466
10	Thai (th) การทุจริต		1 319

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Corruption		625
2	German (de) Korruption		413
3	French (fr) Corruption		297
4	Russian (ru) Коррупция		204
5	Italian (it) Corruzione		146
6	Japanese (ja) 汚職		113
7	Dutch (nl) Corruptie		109
8	Portuguese (pt) Corrupção		99
9	Indonesian (id) Korupsi		96
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	German (de) Korruption		4
2	English (en) Corruption		4
3	Spanish (es) Corrupción (abuso de poder)		4
4	Persian (fa) فساد		4
5	Hungarian (hu) Korrupció		4
6	Indonesian (id) Korupsi		3
7	Portuguese (pt) Corrupção		2
8	Danish (da) Korruption		1
9	Esperanto (eo) Korupto		1
10	French (fr) Corruption		1

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

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