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Obligation

Quality:

Obligation - legal or moral requirement to take a certain course of action. Article “Obligation” in English Wikipedia has 41.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 references and 12 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.

Since the creation of article “Obligation”, its content was written by 158 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 407 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 269 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2486 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #9221 in September 2012
  • Global: #28533 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #53020 in November 2009
  • Global: #53526 in January 2009

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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Obligation
41.7353
2Finnish (fi)
Velvoite
23.7351
3Polish (pl)
Zobowiązanie
22.554
4Dutch (nl)
Verbintenis
22.4112
5Persian (fa)
الزام
21.8928
6Esperanto (eo)
Devontigo
21.3846
7Kazakh (kk)
Уәжіп
21.3491
8Spanish (es)
Obligación (filosofía)
17.8519
9Chinese (zh)
責務
16.2319
10Czech (cs)
Závazek
13.2019
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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 "Obligation" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Obligation
1 858 532
2Polish (pl)
Zobowiązanie
668 090
3German (de)
Verpflichtung
186 648
4Italian (it)
Obbligo
164 443
5Dutch (nl)
Verbintenis
155 944
6Hindi (hi)
दायित्व
154 846
7Czech (cs)
Závazek
150 905
8Serbian (sr)
Обавеза
66 325
9French (fr)
Obligation (philosophie)
62 149
10Kazakh (kk)
Уәжіп
41 431
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Obligation" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Obligation
4 359
2Polish (pl)
Zobowiązanie
367
3German (de)
Verpflichtung
326
4Italian (it)
Obbligo
188
5Czech (cs)
Závazek
186
6Hindi (hi)
दायित्व
177
7Kazakh (kk)
Уәжіп
140
8Serbian (sr)
Обавеза
107
9Dutch (nl)
Verbintenis
101
10French (fr)
Obligation (philosophie)
78
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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 "Obligation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Obligation
158
2Dutch (nl)
Verbintenis
43
3Polish (pl)
Zobowiązanie
42
4German (de)
Verpflichtung
38
5Italian (it)
Obbligo
29
6Czech (cs)
Závazek
18
7French (fr)
Obligation (philosophie)
14
8Serbian (sr)
Обавеза
13
9Spanish (es)
Obligación (filosofía)
9
10Danish (da)
Forpligtelse
6
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Obligation" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Italian (it)
Obbligo
3
2Arabic (ar)
إلزام
0
3Catalan (ca)
Obligacions
0
4Czech (cs)
Závazek
0
5Danish (da)
Forpligtelse
0
6German (de)
Verpflichtung
0
7English (en)
Obligation
0
8Esperanto (eo)
Devontigo
0
9Spanish (es)
Obligación (filosofía)
0
10Estonian (et)
Kohustus
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 "Obligation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Serbian (sr)
Обавеза
751
2Persian (fa)
الزام
396
3English (en)
Obligation
269
4German (de)
Verpflichtung
222
5Czech (cs)
Závazek
205
6Polish (pl)
Zobowiązanie
183
7Estonian (et)
Kohustus
83
8Danish (da)
Forpligtelse
74
9Italian (it)
Obbligo
71
10Dutch (nl)
Verbintenis
65
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
إلزام
caCatalan
Obligacions
csCzech
Závazek
daDanish
Forpligtelse
deGerman
Verpflichtung
enEnglish
Obligation
eoEsperanto
Devontigo
esSpanish
Obligación (filosofía)
etEstonian
Kohustus
faPersian
الزام
fiFinnish
Velvoite
frFrench
Obligation (philosophie)
hiHindi
दायित्व
itItalian
Obbligo
kkKazakh
Уәжіп
ltLithuanian
Prievolinis santykis
nlDutch
Verbintenis
plPolish
Zobowiązanie
ptPortuguese
Obrigação (filosofia)
srSerbian
Обавеза
zhChinese
責務

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#53020
11.2009
Global:
#53526
01.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#9221
09.2012
Global:
#28533
04.2003

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Obligation from Wikipedia articles about Moral responsibility, God, Professional, The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer and Deontology. Whereas reading the article about Obligation people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Law of obligations, Freedom, Moral responsibility, Etiquette and Duty.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

zh: 責務

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