Motivation

Quality:

Motivation - inner state causing goal-directed behavior. Article “Motivation” in English Wikipedia has 90.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 185 references and 30 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 7434^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 3437^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3383^rd most popular in all topics.

The 5096^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Motivation” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Motivation”, its content was written by 1316 registered users of English Wikipedia (3437^th place) and edited by 3562 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5096^th place).

The article is cited 912 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8067 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #860 in April 2009
• Global: #810 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2056 in October 2014
• Global: #895 in April 2013

There are 48 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	English (en) Motivation		90.552
2	German (de) Motivation		86.6667
3	Turkish (tr) Motivasyon		85.7143
4	Japanese (ja) 動機づけ		71.9205
5	Portuguese (pt) Motivação		71.8815
6	Spanish (es) Motivación		71.3589
7	Hebrew (he) הנעה		68.1737
8	French (fr) Motivation		54.7863
9	Indonesian (id) Motivasi		46.8835
10	Chinese (zh) 动机		46.0305

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Motivation		17 299 826
2	Spanish (es) Motivación		9 395 325
3	German (de) Motivation		5 133 376
4	Russian (ru) Мотивация		4 764 835
5	Portuguese (pt) Motivação		2 163 088
6	French (fr) Motivation		1 843 403
7	Indonesian (id) Motivasi		1 726 587
8	Polish (pl) Motywacja		1 239 653
9	Japanese (ja) 動機づけ		1 099 805
10	Thai (th) แรงจูงใจ		792 589

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) Motivation		11 125
2	German (de) Motivation		3 199
3	Russian (ru) Мотивация		3 111
4	Spanish (es) Motivación		1 636
5	Italian (it) Motivazione (psicologia)		1 501
6	French (fr) Motivation		1 157
7	Japanese (ja) 動機づけ		830
8	Portuguese (pt) Motivação		758
9	Chinese (zh) 动机		687
10	Persian (fa) انگیزش		633

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Motivation		1 316
2	German (de) Motivation		401
3	French (fr) Motivation		216
4	Spanish (es) Motivación		204
5	Russian (ru) Мотивация		145
6	Hebrew (he) הנעה		102
7	Portuguese (pt) Motivação		101
8	Dutch (nl) Motivatie		98
9	Italian (it) Motivazione (psicologia)		76
10	Indonesian (id) Motivasi		70

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	French (fr) Motivation		2
2	Arabic (ar) دافع		1
3	Danish (da) Motivation		1
4	English (en) Motivation		1
5	Basque (eu) Motibazio		1
6	Persian (fa) انگیزش		1
7	Hebrew (he) הנעה		1
8	Tamil (ta) ஊக்கம்		1
9	Turkish (tr) Motivasyon		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Motivasiya		0

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

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