Necessary evil

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Necessary evil

Quality:

Necessary evil - evil that is believed must be done or accepted because it is necessary to achieve a better outcome. Article “Necessary evil” in English Wikipedia has 21.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Necessary evil”, its content was written by 26 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 38 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 38 times in English Wikipedia and cited 54 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #26681 in April 2019
  • Global: #111230 in April 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #99858 in May 2009
  • Global: #166000 in May 2009

There are 4 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Chinese (zh)
必要之恶
24.1287
2Serbian (sr)
Nužno zlo
23.2919
3English (en)
Necessary evil
21.3861
4Korean (ko)
필요악
1.1253
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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 "Necessary evil" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Necessary evil
274 980
2Chinese (zh)
必要之恶
63 021
3Korean (ko)
필요악
11 967
4Serbian (sr)
Nužno zlo
354
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Necessary evil" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Necessary evil
851
2Chinese (zh)
必要之恶
266
3Korean (ko)
필요악
83
4Serbian (sr)
Nužno zlo
17
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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 "Necessary evil" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Necessary evil
26
2Chinese (zh)
必要之恶
7
3Korean (ko)
필요악
3
4Serbian (sr)
Nužno zlo
2
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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 2026

Language versions of the article "Necessary evil" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Necessary evil
0
2Korean (ko)
필요악
0
3Serbian (sr)
Nužno zlo
0
4Chinese (zh)
必要之恶
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 "Necessary evil" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Necessary evil
38
2Serbian (sr)
Nužno zlo
8
3Korean (ko)
필요악
4
4Chinese (zh)
必要之恶
4
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Necessary evil
koKorean
필요악
srSerbian
Nužno zlo
zhChinese
必要之恶

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#99858
05.2009
Global:
#166000
05.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#26681
04.2019
Global:
#111230
04.2019

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Necessary evil from Wikipedia articles about Pro-slavery ideology in the United States, Evil, John C. Calhoun, Artificial intelligence and Necessary Evil. Whereas reading the article about Necessary evil people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Lesser of two evils principle, Necessary Evil, Evil, Jester and Thomas Paine.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

News from 1 July 2026

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In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

About WikiRank

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information