Freedom of information

Freedom of information - freedom of a person or people to publish and consume information. Article “Freedom of information” in English Wikipedia has 78.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 149 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.15 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Freedom of information” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Freedom of information”, its content was written by 200 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 956 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1813 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4434 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14217 in February 2020
• Global: #10652 in April 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #75083 in March 2014
• Global: #72836 in October 2014

There are 39 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	Chinese (zh) 信息自由		83.1294
2	German (de) Informationsfreiheit		79.4859
3	English (en) Freedom of information		78.9007
4	Armenian (hy) Տեղեկատվության ազատություն		74.4388
5	Polish (pl) Informacja publiczna		58.4729
6	Latin (la) Libertas informationis		55.9047
7	Hebrew (he) חופש המידע		33.9501
8	Catalan (ca) Llibertat d'informació		33.6662
9	Indonesian (id) Kebebasan informasi		33.3405
10	Persian (fa) آزادی اطلاعات		28.0591

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Freedom of information" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Freedom of information		1 306 722
2	Polish (pl) Informacja publiczna		328 880
3	German (de) Informationsfreiheit		324 067
4	Spanish (es) Libertad de información		177 972
5	Russian (ru) Свобода информации		161 003
6	French (fr) Accès à l'information		67 321
7	Italian (it) Libertà d'informazione		57 731
8	Chinese (zh) 信息自由		51 923
9	Arabic (ar) حرية تداول المعلومات		36 543
10	Indonesian (id) Kebebasan informasi		30 278

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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 "Freedom of information" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Freedom of information		2 201
2	German (de) Informationsfreiheit		363
3	Chinese (zh) 信息自由		292
4	Polish (pl) Informacja publiczna		147
5	Russian (ru) Свобода информации		143
6	French (fr) Accès à l'information		116
7	Spanish (es) Libertad de información		105
8	Persian (fa) آزادی اطلاعات		85
9	Italian (it) Libertà d'informazione		70
10	Uzbek (uz) Axborot erkinligi		36

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Informationsfreiheit		246
2	English (en) Freedom of information		200
3	Polish (pl) Informacja publiczna		50
4	Turkish (tr) Bilgi edinme özgürlüğü		46
5	Russian (ru) Свобода информации		40
6	Italian (it) Libertà d'informazione		37
7	French (fr) Accès à l'information		36
8	Chinese (zh) 信息自由		31
9	Hebrew (he) חופש המידע		29
10	Dutch (nl) Vrijheid van informatie		22

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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 "Freedom of information" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Freedom of information		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Məlumat azadlığı		1
3	Arabic (ar) حرية تداول المعلومات		0
4	Catalan (ca) Llibertat d'informació		0
5	Czech (cs) Svoboda informací		0
6	German (de) Informationsfreiheit		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Informlibereco		0
8	Spanish (es) Libertad de información		0
9	Estonian (et) Infovabadus		0
10	Persian (fa) آزادی اطلاعات		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 "Freedom of information" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Freedom of information		1 813
2	Arabic (ar) حرية تداول المعلومات		251
3	Italian (it) Libertà d'informazione		242
4	German (de) Informationsfreiheit		233
5	French (fr) Accès à l'information		179
6	Chinese (zh) 信息自由		172
7	Persian (fa) آزادی اطلاعات		167
8	Russian (ru) Свобода информации		149
9	Ukrainian (uk) Свобода інформації		118
10	Spanish (es) Libertad de información		96

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حرية تداول المعلومات
az	Azerbaijani Məlumat azadlığı
ca	Catalan Llibertat d'informació
cs	Czech Svoboda informací
de	German Informationsfreiheit
en	English Freedom of information
eo	Esperanto Informlibereco
es	Spanish Libertad de información
et	Estonian Infovabadus
fa	Persian آزادی اطلاعات
fi	Finnish Tiedonsaantivapaus
fr	French Accès à l'information
he	Hebrew חופש המידע
hu	Hungarian Információszabadság
hy	Armenian Տեղեկատվության ազատություն
id	Indonesian Kebebasan informasi
it	Italian Libertà d'informazione
ja	Japanese 情報の自由
ka	Georgian ინფორმაციის თავისუფლება
kk	Kazakh Ақпарат бостандығы
ko	Korean 정보의 자유
la	Latin Libertas informationis
ms	Malay Kebebasan maklumat
nl	Dutch Vrijheid van informatie
no	Norwegian Informasjonsfrihet
pl	Polish Informacja publiczna
pt	Portuguese Liberdade de informação
ru	Russian Свобода информации
simple	Simple English Freedom of information
sr	Serbian Слобода информисања
sv	Swedish Informationsfrihet
ta	Tamil தகவல் சுதந்திரம்
th	Thai เสรีภาพทางข้อมูลข่าวสาร
tr	Turkish Bilgi edinme özgürlüğü
uk	Ukrainian Свобода інформації
ur	Urdu آزادی اطلاعات
uz	Uzbek Axborot erkinligi
vi	Vietnamese Quyền được thông tin
zh	Chinese 信息自由

Best Rank

English: #75083 03.2014

Global: #72836 10.2014

Best Rank

English: #14217 02.2020

Global: #10652 04.2012

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