Ethics

Quality:

Ethics - branch of philosophy that systematizes, defends, and recommends concepts of right and wrong conduct. Article “Ethics” in English Wikipedia has 91.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 277 references and 27 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3838^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 3456^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 821^st most popular in all topics.

The 1489^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9631^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ethics” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages (9631^st place).

Since the creation of article “Ethics”, its content was written by 1281 registered users of English Wikipedia (3456^th place) and edited by 5561 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1489^th place).

The article is cited 4997 times in English Wikipedia (4756^th place) and cited 39362 times in all languages (4162^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #72 in September 2003
• Global: #305 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #506 in March 2015
• Global: #250 in September 2010

There are 54 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	English (en) Ethics		91.4135
2	Dutch (nl) Ethiek		89.2325
3	Esperanto (eo) Etiko		83.5691
4	Japanese (ja) 倫理学		81.2435
5	Latin (la) Ethica		66.4278
6	German (de) Ethik		63.3104
7	Chinese (zh) 伦理学		63.2937
8	Armenian (hy) Էթիկա		62.0884
9	Spanish (es) Ética		60.5561
10	Tamil (ta) நன்னெறி		50.7124

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Ética		31 565 072
2	English (en) Ethics		23 332 494
3	Portuguese (pt) Ética		8 159 567
4	German (de) Ethik		5 860 011
5	French (fr) Éthique		4 095 159
6	Russian (ru) Этика		4 039 793
7	Italian (it) Etica		2 666 136
8	Polish (pl) Etyka		2 148 783
9	Indonesian (id) Etika		1 962 351
10	Dutch (nl) Ethiek		1 656 971

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) Ethics		43 325
2	Spanish (es) Ética		11 862
3	Russian (ru) Этика		5 946
4	German (de) Ethik		5 072
5	French (fr) Éthique		4 709
6	Portuguese (pt) Ética		3 474
7	Japanese (ja) 倫理学		3 100
8	Chinese (zh) 伦理学		2 684
9	Italian (it) Etica		2 458
10	Simple English (simple) Ethics		1 857

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ethics		1 281
2	German (de) Ethik		548
3	Spanish (es) Ética		459
4	French (fr) Éthique		365
5	Italian (it) Etica		236
6	Portuguese (pt) Ética		218
7	Russian (ru) Этика		191
8	Dutch (nl) Ethiek		169
9	Norwegian (no) Etikk		148
10	Hebrew (he) פילוסופיה של המוסר		138

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) Ethik		5
2	English (en) Ethics		4
3	Spanish (es) Ética		2
4	Italian (it) Etica		2
5	Arabic (ar) أخلاقيات		1
6	Persian (fa) فلسفه اخلاق		1
7	Hebrew (he) פילוסופיה של המוסר		1
8	Romanian (ro) Etică		1
9	Russian (ru) Этика		1
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Etika		1

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

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