Piracy

Quality:

Sea piracy - act of robbery or criminality at sea. Article “Piracy” in English Wikipedia has 87.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 289 references and 37 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.61 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7552^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 406^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4169^th most popular in all topics.

The 1046^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Piracy” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Piracy”, its content was written by 2521 registered users of English Wikipedia (406^th place) and edited by 6358 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1046^th place).

The article is cited 5299 times in English Wikipedia (4509^th place) and cited 28107 times in all languages (6007^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #48 in April 2002
• Global: #67 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #477 in April 2009
• Global: #653 in April 2009

There are 49 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Piracy		87.6132
2	Norwegian (no) Sjørøveri		87.2564
3	Croatian (hr) Pirati		85.4587
4	Spanish (es) Piratería		85.0274
5	Uzbek (uz) Qaroqchilik		84.634
6	German (de) Piraterie		77.4672
7	Italian (it) Pirateria		69.1201
8	Swedish (sv) Sjöröveri		65.022
9	Russian (ru) Пиратство		61.6193
10	French (fr) Piraterie		61.2857

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Piracy		17 130 658
2	Spanish (es) Piratería		6 459 524
3	Japanese (ja) 海賊		3 920 973
4	Russian (ru) Пиратство		3 226 825
5	German (de) Piraterie		3 118 390
6	French (fr) Piraterie		2 861 754
7	Italian (it) Pirateria		2 251 484
8	Portuguese (pt) Pirata		1 640 644
9	Chinese (zh) 海盗		772 045
10	Dutch (nl) Piraterij (zeeroverij)		667 485

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) Piracy		29 649
2	Russian (ru) Пиратство		5 903
3	German (de) Piraterie		4 936
4	Japanese (ja) 海賊		4 892
5	French (fr) Piraterie		4 668
6	Spanish (es) Piratería		3 708
7	Italian (it) Pirateria		2 821
8	Chinese (zh) 海盗		1 704
9	Portuguese (pt) Pirata		1 400
10	Persian (fa) دزدی دریایی		1 177

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Piracy		2 521
2	German (de) Piraterie		651
3	French (fr) Piraterie		390
4	Spanish (es) Piratería		371
5	Italian (it) Pirateria		277
6	Russian (ru) Пиратство		214
7	Japanese (ja) 海賊		194
8	Dutch (nl) Piraterij (zeeroverij)		179
9	Portuguese (pt) Pirata		147
10	Hebrew (he) שוד ימי		144

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	English (en) Piracy		4
2	Italian (it) Pirateria		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Dəniz quldurluğu		2
4	Catalan (ca) Pirateria marítima		1
5	Spanish (es) Piratería		1
6	Basque (eu) Pirateria		1
7	Georgian (ka) მეკობრეობა		1
8	Romanian (ro) Piraterie		1
9	Russian (ru) Пиратство		1
10	Serbian (sr) Гусари		1

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

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