Folk healer

Healer - unlicensed person who practices the art of healing using traditional practices, herbal remedies and even the power of suggestion. Article “Folk healer” in English Wikipedia has 27.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 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 “Folk healer”, its content was written by 91 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 260 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 306 times in English Wikipedia and cited 935 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #55585 in March 2021
• Global: #66475 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #249282 in May 2015
• Global: #248616 in October 2019

There are 11 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	French (fr) Guérisseur		29.686
2	English (en) Folk healer		27.105
3	Catalan (ca) Guaridor		26.3893
4	Arabic (ar) مداوي شعبي		21.8901
5	Italian (it) Guaritore		21.5705
6	Hindi (hi) लोक चिकित्सक		19.0159
7	Norwegian (no) Healer		12.3981
8	Basque (eu) Sendalari		11.8342
9	Finnish (fi) Parantaja		5.4693
10	Spanish (es) Sanador		3.4059

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Folk healer" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Folk healer		476 920
2	French (fr) Guérisseur		443 891
3	Spanish (es) Sanador		90 203
4	Italian (it) Guaritore		68 367
5	Norwegian (no) Healer		21 023
6	Finnish (fi) Parantaja		18 322
7	Turkish (tr) Şifacı		5 836
8	Arabic (ar) مداوي شعبي		3 527
9	Basque (eu) Sendalari		1 274
10	Catalan (ca) Guaridor		626

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Folk healer" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Folk healer		1 932
2	French (fr) Guérisseur		1 568
3	Italian (it) Guaritore		221
4	Spanish (es) Sanador		109
5	Turkish (tr) Şifacı		84
6	Finnish (fi) Parantaja		81
7	Norwegian (no) Healer		36
8	Arabic (ar) مداوي شعبي		26
9	Catalan (ca) Guaridor		18
10	Basque (eu) Sendalari		11

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

Language versions of the article "Folk healer" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Folk healer		91
2	French (fr) Guérisseur		82
3	Italian (it) Guaritore		29
4	Norwegian (no) Healer		19
5	Spanish (es) Sanador		14
6	Finnish (fi) Parantaja		9
7	Arabic (ar) مداوي شعبي		4
8	Basque (eu) Sendalari		4
9	Catalan (ca) Guaridor		3
10	Turkish (tr) Şifacı		3

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

Language versions of the article "Folk healer" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hindi (hi) लोक चिकित्सक		1
2	Arabic (ar) مداوي شعبي		0
3	Catalan (ca) Guaridor		0
4	English (en) Folk healer		0
5	Spanish (es) Sanador		0
6	Basque (eu) Sendalari		0
7	Finnish (fi) Parantaja		0
8	French (fr) Guérisseur		0
9	Italian (it) Guaritore		0
10	Norwegian (no) Healer		0

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

Language versions of the article "Folk healer" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Folk healer		306
2	French (fr) Guérisseur		275
3	Italian (it) Guaritore		135
4	Arabic (ar) مداوي شعبي		55
5	Spanish (es) Sanador		49
6	Basque (eu) Sendalari		44
7	Norwegian (no) Healer		32
8	Finnish (fi) Parantaja		18
9	Catalan (ca) Guaridor		14
10	Turkish (tr) Şifacı		7

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مداوي شعبي
ca	Catalan Guaridor
en	English Folk healer
es	Spanish Sanador
eu	Basque Sendalari
fi	Finnish Parantaja
fr	French Guérisseur
hi	Hindi लोक चिकित्सक
it	Italian Guaritore
no	Norwegian Healer
tr	Turkish Şifacı

Best Rank

English: #249282 05.2015

Global: #248616 10.2019

Best Rank

English: #55585 03.2021

Global: #66475 05.2008

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