Periodization

Quality:

Periodization - process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time. Article “Periodization” in English Wikipedia has 30.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.6 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Periodization” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Periodization”, its content was written by 203 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 986 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 705 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3915 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #173 in October 2002
• Global: #457 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #53283 in April 2015
• Global: #9187 in September 2020

There are 34 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	Italian (it) Periodizzazione		61.3855
2	German (de) Periodisierung		43.5095
3	Turkish (tr) Dönemlendirme		34.537
4	Polish (pl) Periodyzacja		33.9861
5	Portuguese (pt) Periodização da história		31.287
6	English (en) Periodization		30.3422
7	Thai (th) การแบ่งยุคสมัย		25.8143
8	Azerbaijani (az) Dövrləşdirmə		24.9461
9	Georgian (ka) ისტორიის პერიოდიზაცია		24.1068
10	Hebrew (he) תיקוף		23.0888

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Periodización		3 192 185
2	English (en) Periodization		1 857 188
3	Portuguese (pt) Periodização da história		1 617 256
4	Russian (ru) Периодизация истории		1 193 134
5	Italian (it) Periodizzazione		823 487
6	Polish (pl) Periodyzacja		590 201
7	Hungarian (hu) Történelmi korszakok		589 378
8	German (de) Periodisierung		408 970
9	Arabic (ar) تحقيب		404 315
10	Indonesian (id) Daftar periode waktu		381 338

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) Periodization		8 197
2	Russian (ru) Периодизация истории		4 042
3	Spanish (es) Periodización		3 181
4	Italian (it) Periodizzazione		2 519
5	Japanese (ja) 時代区分		1 738
6	Thai (th) การแบ่งยุคสมัย		1 314
7	Hungarian (hu) Történelmi korszakok		1 203
8	Portuguese (pt) Periodização da história		1 176
9	German (de) Periodisierung		926
10	Polish (pl) Periodyzacja		749

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Periodization		203
2	Spanish (es) Periodización		118
3	German (de) Periodisierung		81
4	Portuguese (pt) Periodização da história		73
5	Russian (ru) Периодизация истории		72
6	Italian (it) Periodizzazione		62
7	Polish (pl) Periodyzacja		48
8	Hungarian (hu) Történelmi korszakok		47
9	Arabic (ar) تحقيب		32
10	Japanese (ja) 時代区分		24

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	Hungarian (hu) Történelmi korszakok		2
2	Polish (pl) Periodyzacja		2
3	English (en) Periodization		1
4	Italian (it) Periodizzazione		1
5	Arabic (ar) تحقيب		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Dövrləşdirmə		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Историческа периодизация		0
8	Czech (cs) Periodizace historie		0
9	Danish (da) Periodisering		0
10	German (de) Periodisierung		0

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

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