Prayer for the dead

Prayer for the dead - funerary prayers for deceased people. Article “Prayer for the dead” in English Wikipedia has 59.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 83 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.65 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Prayer for the dead”, its content was written by 149 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 199 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 332 times in English Wikipedia and cited 446 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #18078 in May 2004
• Global: #43610 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #56587 in November 2019
• Global: #59770 in August 2019

There are 6 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	Indonesian (id) Doa bagi orang yang telah meninggal dunia		60.7414
2	English (en) Prayer for the dead		59.8493
3	Italian (it) Preghiera per i morti		51.633
4	Hebrew (he) תפילה עבור המתים		37.4727
5	German (de) Totengebet		32.4103
6	Finnish (fi) Rukous kuolleiden puolesta		20.0025

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Prayer for the dead" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Prayer for the dead		1 390 801
2	Indonesian (id) Doa bagi orang yang telah meninggal dunia		360 567
3	German (de) Totengebet		238 805
4	Italian (it) Preghiera per i morti		10 098
5	Hebrew (he) תפילה עבור המתים		5 733
6	Finnish (fi) Rukous kuolleiden puolesta		197

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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 "Prayer for the dead" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Prayer for the dead		3 305
2	German (de) Totengebet		524
3	Italian (it) Preghiera per i morti		114
4	Indonesian (id) Doa bagi orang yang telah meninggal dunia		77
5	Hebrew (he) תפילה עבור המתים		63
6	Finnish (fi) Rukous kuolleiden puolesta		35

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Prayer for the dead		149
2	German (de) Totengebet		26
3	Hebrew (he) תפילה עבור המתים		10
4	Italian (it) Preghiera per i morti		10
5	Indonesian (id) Doa bagi orang yang telah meninggal dunia		3
6	Finnish (fi) Rukous kuolleiden puolesta		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 "Prayer for the dead" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Totengebet		0
2	English (en) Prayer for the dead		0
3	Finnish (fi) Rukous kuolleiden puolesta		0
4	Hebrew (he) תפילה עבור המתים		0
5	Indonesian (id) Doa bagi orang yang telah meninggal dunia		0
6	Italian (it) Preghiera per i morti		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 "Prayer for the dead" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Prayer for the dead		332
2	Hebrew (he) תפילה עבור המתים		41
3	Indonesian (id) Doa bagi orang yang telah meninggal dunia		33
4	German (de) Totengebet		32
5	Finnish (fi) Rukous kuolleiden puolesta		5
6	Italian (it) Preghiera per i morti		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German Totengebet
en	English Prayer for the dead
fi	Finnish Rukous kuolleiden puolesta
he	Hebrew תפילה עבור המתים
id	Indonesian Doa bagi orang yang telah meninggal dunia
it	Italian Preghiera per i morti

Best Rank

English: #56587 11.2019

Global: #59770 08.2019

Best Rank

English: #18078 05.2004

Global: #43610 05.2004

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