Martial law

Quality:

Martial law - imposition of direct military control of a government. Article “Martial law” in English Wikipedia has 91 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 131 references and 38 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4772^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 9346^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5636^th most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9354^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8780^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Martial law” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Martial law”, its content was written by 852 registered users of English Wikipedia (9346^th place) and edited by 2128 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2620 times in English Wikipedia and cited 11024 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #90 in April 2002
• Global: #113 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #36 in March 2020
• Global: #28 in December 2024

There are 45 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	English (en) Martial law		91.036
2	Japanese (ja) 戒厳		71.3127
3	Chinese (zh) 戒严		59.3377
4	Spanish (es) Ley marcial		51.7949
5	Portuguese (pt) Lei marcial		44.986
6	Vietnamese (vi) Thiết quân luật		42.9249
7	Serbian (sr) Ратно законодавство		35.8715
8	Malay (ms) Undang-undang tentera		32.5485
9	Dutch (nl) Krijgswet		29.2035
10	Finnish (fi) Sotalaki		28.8279

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Martial law		20 813 729
2	Spanish (es) Ley marcial		2 488 893
3	Russian (ru) Военное положение		1 677 342
4	Japanese (ja) 戒厳		1 658 097
5	French (fr) Loi martiale		1 606 062
6	Italian (it) Legge marziale		1 172 733
7	Polish (pl) Stan wojenny		1 126 317
8	Chinese (zh) 戒严		1 115 302
9	Korean (ko) 계엄		823 378
10	Ukrainian (uk) Воєнний стан		793 098

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Martial law		70 505
2	Korean (ko) 계엄		8 001
3	Thai (th) กฎอัยการศึก		6 260
4	Japanese (ja) 戒厳		6 028
5	Chinese (zh) 戒严		5 407
6	Romanian (ro) Lege marțială		4 886
7	Spanish (es) Ley marcial		4 625
8	French (fr) Loi martiale		3 009
9	Russian (ru) Военное положение		2 252
10	Italian (it) Legge marziale		1 807

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Martial law		852
2	Japanese (ja) 戒厳		117
3	French (fr) Loi martiale		114
4	Chinese (zh) 戒严		112
5	Polish (pl) Stan wojenny		93
6	Spanish (es) Ley marcial		87
7	Italian (it) Legge marziale		66
8	Korean (ko) 계엄		54
9	Ukrainian (uk) Воєнний стан		52
10	Hebrew (he) ממשל צבאי		51

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) Martial law		8
2	Korean (ko) 계엄		2
3	Ukrainian (uk) Воєнний стан		2
4	Chinese (zh) 戒严		2
5	Czech (cs) Stanné právo		1
6	Persian (fa) حکومت نظامی		1
7	Japanese (ja) 戒厳		1
8	Swedish (sv) Krigslagar		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thiết quân luật		1
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kài-giâm		1

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

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