Patronage

Political patronage - support that one organization or individual bestows to another. Article “Patronage” in English Wikipedia has 54.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 20 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 “Patronage”, its content was written by 329 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 504 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3106 times in English Wikipedia (9403^rd place) and cited 4752 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14129 in June 2004
• Global: #29136 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14566 in October 2008
• Global: #22899 in October 2008

There are 11 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	English (en) Patronage		54.1541
2	French (fr) Patronage		29.5021
3	Italian (it) Patronato politico		23.4341
4	Indonesian (id) Patronasi		23.328
5	Japanese (ja) パトロン		23.0776
6	Chinese (zh) 供養人		23.0254
7	Armenian (hy) Հովանավորություն		13.9669
8	Thai (th) การอุปถัมภ์		13.1812
9	Dutch (nl) Patronage		12.4165
10	Simple English (simple) Patronage		2.4215

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Patronage		4 674 920
2	Japanese (ja) パトロン		1 797 111
3	French (fr) Patronage		199 765
4	Thai (th) การอุปถัมภ์		192 349
5	Dutch (nl) Patronage		129 621
6	Indonesian (id) Patronasi		24 909
7	Ukrainian (uk) Патронаж		24 178
8	Simple English (simple) Patronage		18 687
9	Italian (it) Patronato politico		9 944
10	Chinese (zh) 供養人		8 041

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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 "Patronage" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Patronage		11 334
2	Japanese (ja) パトロン		6 100
3	French (fr) Patronage		545
4	Simple English (simple) Patronage		323
5	Thai (th) การอุปถัมภ์		232
6	Dutch (nl) Patronage		198
7	Indonesian (id) Patronasi		157
8	Chinese (zh) 供養人		148
9	Italian (it) Patronato politico		72
10	Ukrainian (uk) Патронаж		32

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Patronage		329
2	French (fr) Patronage		72
3	Japanese (ja) パトロン		46
4	Dutch (nl) Patronage		17
5	Thai (th) การอุปถัมภ์		9
6	Italian (it) Patronato politico		7
7	Simple English (simple) Patronage		7
8	Ukrainian (uk) Патронаж		7
9	Indonesian (id) Patronasi		5
10	Chinese (zh) 供養人		3

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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 "Patronage" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Patronage		0
2	French (fr) Patronage		0
3	Armenian (hy) Հովանավորություն		0
4	Indonesian (id) Patronasi		0
5	Italian (it) Patronato politico		0
6	Japanese (ja) パトロン		0
7	Dutch (nl) Patronage		0
8	Simple English (simple) Patronage		0
9	Thai (th) การอุปถัมภ์		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Патронаж		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 "Patronage" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Patronage		3 106
2	Japanese (ja) パトロン		781
3	French (fr) Patronage		425
4	Indonesian (id) Patronasi		118
5	Dutch (nl) Patronage		113
6	Simple English (simple) Patronage		101
7	Chinese (zh) 供養人		35
8	Ukrainian (uk) Патронаж		34
9	Italian (it) Patronato politico		20
10	Thai (th) การอุปถัมภ์		16

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#	Language	Value
en	English Patronage
fr	French Patronage
hy	Armenian Հովանավորություն
id	Indonesian Patronasi
it	Italian Patronato politico
ja	Japanese パトロン
nl	Dutch Patronage
simple	Simple English Patronage
th	Thai การอุปถัมภ์
uk	Ukrainian Патронаж
zh	Chinese 供養人

Best Rank

English: #14566 10.2008

Global: #22899 10.2008

Best Rank

English: #14129 06.2004

Global: #29136 10.2004

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