Decentralization

Quality:

Decentralization - process of redistributing or dispersing functions, powers, people or things away from a central location or authority. Article “Decentralization” in English Wikipedia has 79.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 172 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 14.05 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Decentralization”, its content was written by 388 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1390 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2375 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9901 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2001 in April 2002
• Global: #2574 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #24374 in November 2013
• Global: #8797 in November 2014

There are 45 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	English (en) Decentralization		79.6371
2	Armenian (hy) Ապակենտրոնացում		79.2571
3	Arabic (ar) لامركزية (إدارة)		78.2868
4	Chinese (zh) 地方分权		64.3243
5	Portuguese (pt) Descentralização		57.9818
6	Georgian (ka) დეცენტრალიზაცია		49.4651
7	Catalan (ca) Descentralització		45.5409
8	Czech (cs) Decentralizace		44.9282
9	Ukrainian (uk) Децентралізація		43.8317
10	Norwegian (no) Desentralisering		35.2662

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Decentralization		5 039 920
2	Spanish (es) Descentralización		4 944 787
3	Indonesian (id) Desentralisasi		1 757 540
4	French (fr) Décentralisation		1 452 047
5	Russian (ru) Децентрализация		862 875
6	Portuguese (pt) Descentralização		740 148
7	Polish (pl) Decentralizacja		690 096
8	Arabic (ar) لامركزية (إدارة)		537 872
9	Turkish (tr) Adem-i merkeziyetçilik		479 974
10	Hindi (hi) विकेंद्रीकरण		340 791

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) Decentralization		9 261
2	Spanish (es) Descentralización		1 884
3	Turkish (tr) Adem-i merkeziyetçilik		1 229
4	French (fr) Décentralisation		922
5	Russian (ru) Децентрализация		850
6	Chinese (zh) 地方分权		650
7	Polish (pl) Decentralizacja		337
8	Portuguese (pt) Descentralização		313
9	Indonesian (id) Desentralisasi		281
10	Italian (it) Decentramento		214

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Decentralization		388
2	French (fr) Décentralisation		154
3	Spanish (es) Descentralización		99
4	Italian (it) Decentramento		51
5	Dutch (nl) Decentralisatie		48
6	Turkish (tr) Adem-i merkeziyetçilik		38
7	Chinese (zh) 地方分权		38
8	Russian (ru) Децентрализация		37
9	Polish (pl) Decentralizacja		35
10	Portuguese (pt) Descentralização		35

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	Azerbaijani (az) Desentralizasiya		3
2	Catalan (ca) Descentralització		2
3	Czech (cs) Decentralizace		1
4	Finnish (fi) Desentralisaatio		1
5	Hebrew (he) ביזור		1
6	Norwegian (no) Desentralisering		1
7	Serbian (sr) Децентрализација		1
8	Swedish (sv) Decentralisering		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Децентралізація		1
10	Arabic (ar) لامركزية (إدارة)		0

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

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