Political bias

Political bias - bias or perceived bias involving the slanting and altering of information to make a political position or political candidates seem more attractive. Article “Political bias” in English Wikipedia has 62.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 88 references and 9 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Political bias” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Political bias”, its content was written by 57 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 106 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 853 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1344 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6142 in June 2019
• Global: #12252 in March 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #325187 in October 2019
• Global: #276863 in October 2018

There are 7 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	Portuguese (pt) Viés político		74.7045
2	English (en) Political bias		62.6613
3	Malay (ms) Bias politik		54.7165
4	Arabic (ar) انحياز سياسي		24.5642
5	Indonesian (id) Bias politik		23.7747
6	Korean (ko) 정치 편향		23.2454
7	Spanish (es) Sesgo político		16.2713

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Political bias		90 053
2	Portuguese (pt) Viés político		83 173
3	Spanish (es) Sesgo político		10 345
4	Arabic (ar) انحياز سياسي		2 002
5	Korean (ko) 정치 편향		1 002
6	Malay (ms) Bias politik		806
7	Indonesian (id) Bias politik		101

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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 "Political bias" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Political bias		2 364
2	Portuguese (pt) Viés político		294
3	Spanish (es) Sesgo político		62
4	Korean (ko) 정치 편향		29
5	Arabic (ar) انحياز سياسي		18
6	Indonesian (id) Bias politik		11
7	Malay (ms) Bias politik		10

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Political bias		57
2	Portuguese (pt) Viés político		34
3	Spanish (es) Sesgo político		6
4	Arabic (ar) انحياز سياسي		4
5	Indonesian (id) Bias politik		2
6	Korean (ko) 정치 편향		2
7	Malay (ms) Bias politik		1

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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 "Political bias" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Political bias		4
2	Arabic (ar) انحياز سياسي		0
3	Spanish (es) Sesgo político		0
4	Indonesian (id) Bias politik		0
5	Korean (ko) 정치 편향		0
6	Malay (ms) Bias politik		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Viés político		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 "Political bias" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Political bias		853
2	Portuguese (pt) Viés político		346
3	Arabic (ar) انحياز سياسي		101
4	Korean (ko) 정치 편향		26
5	Spanish (es) Sesgo político		16
6	Indonesian (id) Bias politik		1
7	Malay (ms) Bias politik		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic انحياز سياسي
en	English Political bias
es	Spanish Sesgo político
id	Indonesian Bias politik
ko	Korean 정치 편향
ms	Malay Bias politik
pt	Portuguese Viés político

Best Rank

English: #325187 10.2019

Global: #276863 10.2018

Best Rank

English: #6142 06.2019

Global: #12252 03.2017

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