Devil's advocate

Quality:

Devil's advocate - former official position within the Catholic Church. Article “Devil's advocate” in English Wikipedia has 28.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Devil's advocate”, its content was written by 268 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 927 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 644 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1267 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5354 in July 2003
• Global: #5170 in May 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1234 in October 2017
• Global: #4217 in October 2017

There are 32 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	Portuguese (pt) Advogado do Diabo		29.6803
2	English (en) Devil's advocate		28.8653
3	Croatian (hr) Vražji odvjetnik		26.8883
4	Hindi (hi) शैतान का अधिवक्ता		23.4765
5	Basque (eu) Deabruaren abokatu		23.2889
6	Arabic (ar) محامي الشيطان		22.3285
7	Spanish (es) Abogado del diablo		20.7696
8	Persian (fa) وکیل‌مدافع شیطان		20.0514
9	Chinese (zh) 魔鬼的訟辯人		19.0547
10	Finnish (fi) Paholaisen asianajaja		18.9573

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Devil's advocate		5 419 703
2	German (de) Advocatus Diaboli		852 548
3	Spanish (es) Abogado del diablo		519 331
4	Russian (ru) Адвокат дьявола		447 804
5	Portuguese (pt) Advogado do Diabo		259 993
6	Japanese (ja) 悪魔の代弁者		202 519
7	French (fr) Avocat du diable		186 636
8	Italian (it) Avvocato del diavolo		155 263
9	Persian (fa) وکیل‌مدافع شیطان		137 039
10	Swedish (sv) Djävulens advokat		110 060

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) Devil's advocate		10 262
2	German (de) Advocatus Diaboli		1 753
3	Japanese (ja) 悪魔の代弁者		760
4	Russian (ru) Адвокат дьявола		736
5	Spanish (es) Abogado del diablo		727
6	French (fr) Avocat du diable		646
7	Italian (it) Avvocato del diavolo		348
8	Chinese (zh) 魔鬼的訟辯人		318
9	Portuguese (pt) Advogado do Diabo		275
10	Czech (cs) Advocatus diaboli		141

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Devil's advocate		268
2	Russian (ru) Адвокат дьявола		63
3	French (fr) Avocat du diable		51
4	German (de) Advocatus Diaboli		50
5	Italian (it) Avvocato del diavolo		48
6	Norwegian (no) Djevelens advokat		42
7	Polish (pl) Promotor Wiary		38
8	Hebrew (he) פרקליט השטן		36
9	Spanish (es) Abogado del diablo		30
10	Danish (da) Djævelens advokat		29

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	Spanish (es) Abogado del diablo		1
2	Croatian (hr) Vražji odvjetnik		1
3	Russian (ru) Адвокат дьявола		1
4	Arabic (ar) محامي الشيطان		0
5	Catalan (ca) Advocat del diable		0
6	Czech (cs) Advocatus diaboli		0
7	Danish (da) Djævelens advokat		0
8	German (de) Advocatus Diaboli		0
9	English (en) Devil's advocate		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Advokato de la Diablo		0

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

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