Counterfactual history

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Counterfactual history

Quality:

Counterfactual history - study of historical events that never happened. Article “Counterfactual history” in English Wikipedia has 30.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Counterfactual history”, its content was written by 145 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 510 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 76 times in English Wikipedia and cited 450 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #6248 in August 2002
  • Global: #8959 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #93458 in November 2008
  • Global: #114731 in November 2008

There are 17 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1French (fr)
Histoire contrefactuelle
36.0093
2German (de)
Kontrafaktische Geschichte
35.5898
3English (en)
Counterfactual history
30.8181
4Norwegian (no)
Kontrafaktisk historie
22.4784
5Persian (fa)
داستان تاریخی خلاف واقع
21.607
6Russian (ru)
Контрфактическая история
21.0741
7Spanish (es)
Historia contrafactual
18.5849
8Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה נוגדת-עובדות
16.67
9Arabic (ar)
التاريخ المضاد
15.4173
10Ukrainian (uk)
Альтернативна історія (наука)
14.0589
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Counterfactual history" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Counterfactual history
790 659
2German (de)
Kontrafaktische Geschichte
333 175
3Spanish (es)
Historia contrafactual
207 138
4Swedish (sv)
Kontrafaktisk historia
49 361
5French (fr)
Histoire contrefactuelle
46 847
6Danish (da)
Kontrafaktisk historie
43 374
7Italian (it)
Storia controfattuale
27 911
8Norwegian (no)
Kontrafaktisk historie
24 088
9Polish (pl)
Historia kontrafaktyczna
22 841
10Portuguese (pt)
História contrafactual
22 727
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Counterfactual history" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Counterfactual history
3 303
2German (de)
Kontrafaktische Geschichte
954
3Spanish (es)
Historia contrafactual
307
4French (fr)
Histoire contrefactuelle
165
5Russian (ru)
Контрфактическая история
105
6Romanian (ro)
Istorie contrafactuală
85
7Danish (da)
Kontrafaktisk historie
84
8Portuguese (pt)
História contrafactual
83
9Italian (it)
Storia controfattuale
80
10Swedish (sv)
Kontrafaktisk historia
80
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Counterfactual history" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Counterfactual history
145
2German (de)
Kontrafaktische Geschichte
83
3Spanish (es)
Historia contrafactual
49
4Ukrainian (uk)
Альтернативна історія (наука)
40
5French (fr)
Histoire contrefactuelle
37
6Swedish (sv)
Kontrafaktisk historia
33
7Danish (da)
Kontrafaktisk historie
28
8Finnish (fi)
Kontrafaktuaalinen historia
20
9Polish (pl)
Historia kontrafaktyczna
16
10Portuguese (pt)
História contrafactual
14
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Counterfactual history" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Spanish (es)
Historia contrafactual
1
2Norwegian (no)
Kontrafaktisk historie
1
3Arabic (ar)
التاريخ المضاد
0
4Danish (da)
Kontrafaktisk historie
0
5German (de)
Kontrafaktische Geschichte
0
6English (en)
Counterfactual history
0
7Persian (fa)
داستان تاریخی خلاف واقع
0
8Finnish (fi)
Kontrafaktuaalinen historia
0
9French (fr)
Histoire contrefactuelle
0
10Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה נוגדת-עובדות
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Counterfactual history" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Polish (pl)
Historia kontrafaktyczna
92
2English (en)
Counterfactual history
76
3Spanish (es)
Historia contrafactual
58
4German (de)
Kontrafaktische Geschichte
53
5Romanian (ro)
Istorie contrafactuală
32
6Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה נוגדת-עובדות
29
7Danish (da)
Kontrafaktisk historie
22
8Norwegian (no)
Kontrafaktisk historie
20
9Portuguese (pt)
História contrafactual
18
10French (fr)
Histoire contrefactuelle
16
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
التاريخ المضاد
daDanish
Kontrafaktisk historie
deGerman
Kontrafaktische Geschichte
enEnglish
Counterfactual history
esSpanish
Historia contrafactual
faPersian
داستان تاریخی خلاف واقع
fiFinnish
Kontrafaktuaalinen historia
frFrench
Histoire contrefactuelle
heHebrew
היסטוריה נוגדת-עובדות
itItalian
Storia controfattuale
noNorwegian
Kontrafaktisk historie
plPolish
Historia kontrafaktyczna
ptPortuguese
História contrafactual
roRomanian
Istorie contrafactuală
ruRussian
Контрфактическая история
svSwedish
Kontrafaktisk historia
ukUkrainian
Альтернативна історія (наука)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#93458
11.2008
Global:
#114731
11.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#6248
08.2002
Global:
#8959
08.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Counterfactual history from Wikipedia articles about Inglourious Basterds, Alternate history, Alan Turing, Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II and Niall Ferguson. Whereas reading the article about Counterfactual history people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Alternate history, Counterfactual conditional, Stalins Missed Chance, What If? and Uchronia.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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