Mistake of law

Mistake of law - defense (or lack thereof) to criminal charges on the grounds of ignorance of law. Article “Mistake of law” in English Wikipedia has 14.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Mistake of law”, its content was written by 41 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 137 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 147 times in English Wikipedia and cited 278 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #96666 in March 2011
• Global: #86424 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #311192 in April 2010
• Global: #312839 in October 2018

There are 8 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	German (de) Verbotsirrtum		24.5742
2	Chinese (zh) 法律認識錯誤		23.1941
3	Finnish (fi) Oikeuserehdys		22.2134
4	English (en) Mistake of law		14.3146
5	Polish (pl) Błąd co do bezprawności czynu		9.4151
6	Spanish (es) Error de prohibición		9.01
7	Slovenian (sl) Pravna zmota		1.3137
8	Dutch (nl) Rechtsdwaling		0.5472

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Mistake of law" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mistake of law		276 132
2	German (de) Verbotsirrtum		275 769
3	Spanish (es) Error de prohibición		120 609
4	Polish (pl) Błąd co do bezprawności czynu		35 926
5	Dutch (nl) Rechtsdwaling		12 718
6	Slovenian (sl) Pravna zmota		5 513
7	Finnish (fi) Oikeuserehdys		2 896
8	Chinese (zh) 法律認識錯誤		1 213

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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 "Mistake of law" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Verbotsirrtum		792
2	English (en) Mistake of law		716
3	Spanish (es) Error de prohibición		103
4	Polish (pl) Błąd co do bezprawności czynu		66
5	Chinese (zh) 法律認識錯誤		60
6	Slovenian (sl) Pravna zmota		15
7	Dutch (nl) Rechtsdwaling		10
8	Finnish (fi) Oikeuserehdys		9

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Verbotsirrtum		66
2	English (en) Mistake of law		41
3	Polish (pl) Błąd co do bezprawności czynu		12
4	Dutch (nl) Rechtsdwaling		5
5	Spanish (es) Error de prohibición		4
6	Finnish (fi) Oikeuserehdys		4
7	Slovenian (sl) Pravna zmota		3
8	Chinese (zh) 法律認識錯誤		2

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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 "Mistake of law" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Verbotsirrtum		0
2	English (en) Mistake of law		0
3	Spanish (es) Error de prohibición		0
4	Finnish (fi) Oikeuserehdys		0
5	Dutch (nl) Rechtsdwaling		0
6	Polish (pl) Błąd co do bezprawności czynu		0
7	Slovenian (sl) Pravna zmota		0
8	Chinese (zh) 法律認識錯誤		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 "Mistake of law" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Mistake of law		147
2	Chinese (zh) 法律認識錯誤		59
3	German (de) Verbotsirrtum		58
4	Dutch (nl) Rechtsdwaling		6
5	Slovenian (sl) Pravna zmota		3
6	Spanish (es) Error de prohibición		2
7	Polish (pl) Błąd co do bezprawności czynu		2
8	Finnish (fi) Oikeuserehdys		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Verbotsirrtum
en	English Mistake of law
es	Spanish Error de prohibición
fi	Finnish Oikeuserehdys
nl	Dutch Rechtsdwaling
pl	Polish Błąd co do bezprawności czynu
sl	Slovenian Pravna zmota
zh	Chinese 法律認識錯誤

Best Rank

English: #311192 04.2010

Global: #312839 10.2018

Best Rank

English: #96666 03.2011

Global: #86424 03.2005

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