Old Believers

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Old Believers

Quality:

Old Believers - Eastern Orthodox Christians who resist reforms of Nikon in 1652–1666, religious movement in Imperial Russia. Article “Old Believers” in English Wikipedia has 62.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 24 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.3 points.

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

Achievements in the last month:
English Wikipedia:
The 8516th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Old Believers” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (8516th place) and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Old Believers”, its content was written by 415 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1710 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1283 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9358 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #4138 in November 2005
  • Global: #6417 in October 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #25537 in March 2022
  • Global: #19871 in March 2022

There are 38 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
1Polish (pl)
Staroobrzędowcy
99.5225
2Russian (ru)
Старообрядчество
73.7469
3English (en)
Old Believers
62.6062
4Ukrainian (uk)
Старообрядництво
52.8391
5German (de)
Altgläubige in Russland
52.7239
6Italian (it)
Vecchi credenti
51.0701
7Estonian (et)
Vanausulised
49.0289
8Dutch (nl)
Oudgelovigen
42.461
9French (fr)
Orthodoxes vieux-croyants
39.7274
10Chinese (zh)
旧礼仪派
39.4635
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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 "Old Believers" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Russian (ru)
Старообрядчество
4 699 598
2English (en)
Old Believers
3 547 499
3Polish (pl)
Staroobrzędowcy
587 172
4German (de)
Altgläubige in Russland
340 841
5French (fr)
Orthodoxes vieux-croyants
265 563
6Italian (it)
Vecchi credenti
162 629
7Japanese (ja)
古儀式派
156 708
8Ukrainian (uk)
Старообрядництво
145 548
9Lithuanian (lt)
Sentikybė
141 234
10Spanish (es)
Viejos creyentes
141 095
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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 "Old Believers" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Old Believers
25 763
2Russian (ru)
Старообрядчество
24 131
3Polish (pl)
Staroobrzędowcy
2 032
4German (de)
Altgläubige in Russland
1 204
5Spanish (es)
Viejos creyentes
1 141
6French (fr)
Orthodoxes vieux-croyants
1 024
7Italian (it)
Vecchi credenti
824
8Ukrainian (uk)
Старообрядництво
745
9Japanese (ja)
古儀式派
691
10Chinese (zh)
旧礼仪派
593
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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 "Old Believers" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Old Believers
415
2Russian (ru)
Старообрядчество
296
3German (de)
Altgläubige in Russland
152
4French (fr)
Orthodoxes vieux-croyants
110
5Dutch (nl)
Oudgelovigen
80
6Italian (it)
Vecchi credenti
73
7Polish (pl)
Staroobrzędowcy
65
8Ukrainian (uk)
Старообрядництво
60
9Norwegian (no)
De gammeltroende
43
10Spanish (es)
Viejos creyentes
39
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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 "Old Believers" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Old Believers
10
2German (de)
Altgläubige in Russland
2
3Estonian (et)
Vanausulised
2
4Esperanto (eo)
Malnovritanoj
1
5French (fr)
Orthodoxes vieux-croyants
1
6Hebrew (he)
אדוקי האמונה הישנה
1
7Polish (pl)
Staroobrzędowcy
1
8Belarusian (be)
Стараверства
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Старообрядство
0
10Catalan (ca)
Vells creients
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 "Old Believers" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Russian (ru)
Старообрядчество
2 601
2English (en)
Old Believers
1 283
3Polish (pl)
Staroobrzędowcy
857
4Ukrainian (uk)
Старообрядництво
652
5French (fr)
Orthodoxes vieux-croyants
512
6German (de)
Altgläubige in Russland
374
7Chinese (zh)
旧礼仪派
309
8Lithuanian (lt)
Sentikybė
283
9Italian (it)
Vecchi credenti
201
10Belarusian (be)
Стараверства
171
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
beBelarusian
Стараверства
bgBulgarian
Старообрядство
caCatalan
Vells creients
csCzech
Starověrci
daDanish
Gammeltroende
deGerman
Altgläubige in Russland
elGreek
Παλαιοί Πιστοί
enEnglish
Old Believers
eoEsperanto
Malnovritanoj
esSpanish
Viejos creyentes
etEstonian
Vanausulised
euBasque
Sinestun zahar
faPersian
باورمندان کهن
fiFinnish
Vanhauskoisuus
frFrench
Orthodoxes vieux-croyants
heHebrew
אדוקי האמונה הישנה
huHungarian
Óhitűek
idIndonesian
Pemercaya Lama
itItalian
Vecchi credenti
jaJapanese
古儀式派
kaGeorgian
ძველმართლმადიდებლები
koKorean
고의식파
ltLithuanian
Sentikybė
nlDutch
Oudgelovigen
noNorwegian
De gammeltroende
plPolish
Staroobrzędowcy
ptPortuguese
Abakumitas
roRomanian
Rascolnici
ruRussian
Старообрядчество
shSerbo-Croatian
Staroverci
simpleSimple English
Old Believers
skSlovak
Staroverstvo
srSerbian
Староверци
svSwedish
Gammaltroende
thThai
ผู้เชื่อเก่า
trTurkish
Eski İnananlar
ukUkrainian
Старообрядництво
zhChinese
旧礼仪派

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#25537
03.2022
Global:
#19871
03.2022

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4138
11.2005
Global:
#6417
10.2005

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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