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Historical source

Quality:

Historical source - texts, objects or facts from which knowledge of the past can be obtained. Article "Historical source" in English Wikipedia has 31.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Historical source", its content was written by 41 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 837 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 330 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7327 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #19093 in November 2020
  • Global: #3797 in September 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #54804 in September 2020
  • Global: #9940 in September 2020

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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Quelle (Geschichtswissenschaft)
52.7912
2Russian (ru)
Исторический источник
39.7036
3Italian (it)
Fonte (storiografia)
39.2092
4Spanish (es)
Fuente documental
32.816
5English (en)
Historical source
31.0801
6Serbian (sr)
Историјски извори
30.86
7Ukrainian (uk)
Історичне джерело
25.669
8Hebrew (he)
מקור היסטורי
25.0302
9Indonesian (id)
Sumber sejarah
23.3224
10Norwegian (no)
Historisk kilde
22.6176
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Historical source" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
Fuente documental
1 799 248
2Russian (ru)
Исторический источник
1 322 981
3German (de)
Quelle (Geschichtswissenschaft)
891 014
4Polish (pl)
Źródła historyczne
719 219
5English (en)
Historical source
577 950
6Ukrainian (uk)
Історичне джерело
532 007
7Portuguese (pt)
Fonte documental
289 901
8Italian (it)
Fonte (storiografia)
276 725
9Japanese (ja)
史料
220 068
10Serbian (sr)
Историјски извори
208 857
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Historical source" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Historical source
2 670
2Russian (ru)
Исторический источник
2 071
3German (de)
Quelle (Geschichtswissenschaft)
762
4Japanese (ja)
史料
625
5Spanish (es)
Fuente documental
560
6Chinese (zh)
史料
495
7Italian (it)
Fonte (storiografia)
419
8Uzbek (uz)
Manbalar
336
9Hindi (hi)
ऐतिहासिक स्रोत
304
10Polish (pl)
Źródła historyczne
267
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Historical source" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Quelle (Geschichtswissenschaft)
161
2Spanish (es)
Fuente documental
73
3Polish (pl)
Źródła historyczne
68
4Russian (ru)
Исторический источник
61
5Italian (it)
Fonte (storiografia)
46
6Japanese (ja)
史料
46
7Dutch (nl)
Historische bron
45
8English (en)
Historical source
41
9Hebrew (he)
מקור היסטורי
39
10Portuguese (pt)
Fonte documental
33
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Historical source" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Japanese (ja)
史料
3
2Arabic (ar)
مصدر تاريخي
0
3Azerbaijani (az)
Tarixi mənbə
0
4Catalan (ca)
Font documental
0
5Czech (cs)
Historický pramen
0
6Danish (da)
Kilde (historievidenskab)
0
7German (de)
Quelle (Geschichtswissenschaft)
0
8English (en)
Historical source
0
9Esperanto (eo)
Fonto (historio)
0
10Spanish (es)
Fuente documental
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Historical source" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Russian (ru)
Исторический источник
2 008
2German (de)
Quelle (Geschichtswissenschaft)
1 267
3Japanese (ja)
史料
988
4Czech (cs)
Historický pramen
707
5English (en)
Historical source
330
6Catalan (ca)
Font documental
251
7Spanish (es)
Fuente documental
241
8Italian (it)
Fonte (storiografia)
182
9Polish (pl)
Źródła historyczne
155
10Uzbek (uz)
Manbalar
146
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
مصدر تاريخي
azAzerbaijani
Tarixi mənbə
caCatalan
Font documental
csCzech
Historický pramen
daDanish
Kilde (historievidenskab)
deGerman
Quelle (Geschichtswissenschaft)
enEnglish
Historical source
eoEsperanto
Fonto (historio)
esSpanish
Fuente documental
euBasque
Informazio iturri
faPersian
منبع تاریخی
heHebrew
מקור היסטורי
hiHindi
ऐतिहासिक स्रोत
huHungarian
Történeti forrás
idIndonesian
Sumber sejarah
itItalian
Fonte (storiografia)
jaJapanese
史料
koKorean
사료
msMalay
Sumber sejarah
nlDutch
Historische bron
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Historisk kjelde
noNorwegian
Historisk kilde
plPolish
Źródła historyczne
ptPortuguese
Fonte documental
roRomanian
Izvor istoric
ruRussian
Исторический источник
simpleSimple English
Historical source
skSlovak
Historický prameň
srSerbian
Историјски извори
ukUkrainian
Історичне джерело
uzUzbek
Manbalar
zhChinese
史料

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#54804
09.2020
Global:
#9940
09.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#19093
11.2020
Global:
#3797
09.2020

Global popularity rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Historical source from Wikipedia articles about Wikipedia article, History, Shinchō kōki, Philology and Primary source. Whereas reading the article about Historical source people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Primary source, Secondary source, Historical document, Source study and Tertiary source.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 史料
zh: 史料
ko: 사료

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