History of theatre

Quality:

History of theatre - theatre over the past 2,500 years. Article “History of theatre” in English Wikipedia has 93.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 290 references and 44 sections.

This article has the best quality in Serbian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Spanish.

In June 2025 the article “History of theatre” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “History of theatre”, its content was written by 427 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1429 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 300 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2033 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #328 in May 2002
• Global: #552 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #31187 in March 2017
• Global: #7647 in February 2015

There are 21 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	Serbian (sr) Историја позоришта		98.9474
2	English (en) History of theatre		93.5301
3	Ukrainian (uk) Історія театру		80.0656
4	Catalan (ca) Història del teatre		56.9112
5	Polish (pl) Historia teatru		54.5111
6	German (de) Geschichte des Theaters		52.7064
7	Italian (it) Storia del teatro		40.9515
8	French (fr) Histoire du théâtre		34.4203
9	Spanish (es) Historia del teatro		34.3439
10	Korean (ko) 연극의 역사		30.5539

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Historia del teatro		5 662 834
2	English (en) History of theatre		2 812 710
3	Portuguese (pt) História do teatro		2 257 280
4	French (fr) Histoire du théâtre		1 323 432
5	Italian (it) Storia del teatro		920 097
6	Polish (pl) Historia teatru		510 160
7	German (de) Geschichte des Theaters		488 654
8	Japanese (ja) 演劇の歴史		339 295
9	Dutch (nl) Theatergeschiedenis		116 759
10	Korean (ko) 연극의 역사		81 980

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Historia del teatro		6 916
2	English (en) History of theatre		6 259
3	French (fr) Histoire du théâtre		1 627
4	Japanese (ja) 演劇の歴史		1 077
5	Italian (it) Storia del teatro		905
6	Portuguese (pt) História do teatro		865
7	German (de) Geschichte des Theaters		567
8	Korean (ko) 연극의 역사		244
9	Polish (pl) Historia teatru		223
10	Arabic (ar) تاريخ المسرح		191

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History of theatre		427
2	French (fr) Histoire du théâtre		189
3	German (de) Geschichte des Theaters		144
4	Italian (it) Storia del teatro		119
5	Spanish (es) Historia del teatro		112
6	Portuguese (pt) História do teatro		98
7	Dutch (nl) Theatergeschiedenis		58
8	Polish (pl) Historia teatru		42
9	Finnish (fi) Teatterihistoria		39
10	Japanese (ja) 演劇の歴史		32

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	English (en) History of theatre		2
2	Arabic (ar) تاريخ المسرح		0
3	Catalan (ca) Història del teatre		0
4	German (de) Geschichte des Theaters		0
5	Spanish (es) Historia del teatro		0
6	Estonian (et) Teatriajalugu		0
7	Persian (fa) تاریخ نمایش		0
8	Finnish (fi) Teatterihistoria		0
9	French (fr) Histoire du théâtre		0
10	Hebrew (he) היסטוריה של התיאטרון		0

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

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