Freedom of thought

Freedom of thought - freedom of an individual to hold or consider a fact, viewpoint, or thought, independent of others' viewpoints. Article “Freedom of thought” in English Wikipedia has 27.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.46 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Freedom of thought”, its content was written by 225 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 894 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1236 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4281 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14451 in April 2019
• Global: #17424 in January 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #88130 in February 2008
• Global: #52127 in January 2008

There are 44 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	Estonian (et) Mõttevabadus		47.3163
2	Finnish (fi) Ajatuksenvapaus		46.7833
3	Portuguese (pt) Liberdade de pensamento		37.3268
4	Latin (la) Libertas cogitandi		34.4578
5	Serbian (sr) Слобода мисли		30.8796
6	German (de) Gedankenfreiheit		30.7598
7	Polish (pl) Wolność myśli		28.6077
8	Czech (cs) Svoboda myšlení		28.484
9	English (en) Freedom of thought		27.6834
10	Chinese (zh) 思想自由		26.8277

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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 thought" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Freedom of thought		1 261 616
2	Russian (ru) Свобода совести		735 805
3	Japanese (ja) 思想・良心の自由		631 020
4	Turkish (tr) Düşünce özgürlüğü		300 961
5	French (fr) Liberté de pensée		250 940
6	Italian (it) Libertà di pensiero		227 156
7	Portuguese (pt) Liberdade de pensamento		154 955
8	Arabic (ar) حرية الفكر		150 317
9	Uzbek (uz) Vijdon erkinligi		142 721
10	German (de) Gedankenfreiheit		125 989

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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 thought" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Freedom of thought		1 931
2	Japanese (ja) 思想・良心の自由		1 128
3	Russian (ru) Свобода совести		874
4	French (fr) Liberté de pensée		256
5	Portuguese (pt) Liberdade de pensamento		221
6	Chinese (zh) 思想自由		170
7	German (de) Gedankenfreiheit		148
8	Persian (fa) آزادی اندیشه		142
9	Italian (it) Libertà di pensiero		114
10	Uzbek (uz) Vijdon erkinligi		102

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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 thought" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Freedom of thought		225
2	Russian (ru) Свобода совести		64
3	German (de) Gedankenfreiheit		62
4	French (fr) Liberté de pensée		60
5	Italian (it) Libertà di pensiero		49
6	Turkish (tr) Düşünce özgürlüğü		39
7	Japanese (ja) 思想・良心の自由		38
8	Hungarian (hu) Lelkiismereti szabadság		33
9	Finnish (fi) Ajatuksenvapaus		26
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tự do tư tưởng		26

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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 thought" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Romanian (ro) Libertate de gândire		1
2	Arabic (ar) حرية الفكر		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Vicdan azadlığı		0
4	Belarusian (be) Свабода сумлення		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Свобода на мисълта		0
6	Catalan (ca) Llibertat de pensament		0
7	Czech (cs) Svoboda myšlení		0
8	Danish (da) Tankefrihed		0
9	German (de) Gedankenfreiheit		0
10	Greek (el) Ελευθερία της σκέψης		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 thought" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Freedom of thought		1 236
2	Arabic (ar) حرية الفكر		298
3	Persian (fa) آزادی اندیشه		298
4	Russian (ru) Свобода совести		285
5	Japanese (ja) 思想・良心の自由		218
6	French (fr) Liberté de pensée		213
7	Italian (it) Libertà di pensiero		185
8	Korean (ko) 사상의 자유		154
9	Chinese (zh) 思想自由		131
10	Serbian (sr) Слобода мисли		118

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حرية الفكر
az	Azerbaijani Vicdan azadlığı
be	Belarusian Свабода сумлення
bg	Bulgarian Свобода на мисълта
ca	Catalan Llibertat de pensament
cs	Czech Svoboda myšlení
da	Danish Tankefrihed
de	German Gedankenfreiheit
el	Greek Ελευθερία της σκέψης
en	English Freedom of thought
eo	Esperanto Pensolibero
et	Estonian Mõttevabadus
eu	Basque Pentsamendu-askatasun
fa	Persian آزادی اندیشه
fi	Finnish Ajatuksenvapaus
fr	French Liberté de pensée
gl	Galician Liberdade de pensamento
hi	Hindi विचार स्वातंत्र्य
hu	Hungarian Lelkiismereti szabadság
hy	Armenian Մտքի ազատություն
id	Indonesian Kebebasan berpikir
it	Italian Libertà di pensiero
ja	Japanese 思想・良心の自由
ko	Korean 사상의 자유
la	Latin Libertas cogitandi
lt	Lithuanian Sąžinės laisvė
ms	Malay Kebebasan berfikir
nl	Dutch Vrijheid van gedachte
no	Norwegian Tankefrihet
pl	Polish Wolność myśli
pt	Portuguese Liberdade de pensamento
ro	Romanian Libertate de gândire
ru	Russian Свобода совести
sk	Slovak Sloboda myslenia
sr	Serbian Слобода мисли
ta	Tamil சிந்தனைச் சுதந்திரம்
th	Thai เสรีภาพทางความคิด
tr	Turkish Düşünce özgürlüğü
uk	Ukrainian Свобода думки
ur	Urdu آزادی سوچ
uz	Uzbek Vijdon erkinligi
vi	Vietnamese Tự do tư tưởng
zh	Chinese 思想自由
zhminnan	Min Nan Su-sióng ê chū-iû

Best Rank

English: #88130 02.2008

Global: #52127 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #14451 04.2019

Global: #17424 01.2011

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