Purgatory

Quality:

Purgatory - intermediate state after death for purification, according to the belief of some Christians. Article "Purgatory" in English Wikipedia has 93.2 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 178 references and 16 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9848^th most popular in all topics.

The 9649^th most popular in AI.

In July 2024 the article "Purgatory" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Purgatory", its content was written by 628 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2499 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9649^th place).

The article is cited 1086 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6501 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2075 in August 2001
• Global: #2044 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1492 in October 2012
• Global: #3103 in October 2012

There are 48 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Purgatory		93.1666
2	Croatian (hr) Čistilište		84.1475
3	Indonesian (id) Purgatorium		82.1383
4	Italian (it) Purgatorio		80.9496
5	Malay (ms) Purgatorium		76
6	Portuguese (pt) Purgatório		69.9416
7	Spanish (es) Purgatorio		65.6508
8	German (de) Fegefeuer		64.1472
9	Hungarian (hu) Purgatórium		58.7749
10	Korean (ko) 연옥 (기독교)		57.6505

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Purgatory		11 806 268
2	Spanish (es) Purgatorio		3 183 412
3	Russian (ru) Чистилище		1 536 938
4	German (de) Fegefeuer		1 480 160
5	Japanese (ja) 煉獄		1 352 683
6	Portuguese (pt) Purgatório		1 033 083
7	French (fr) Purgatoire		952 034
8	Italian (it) Purgatorio		832 225
9	Polish (pl) Czyściec		742 154
10	Turkish (tr) Araf		531 412

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) Purgatory		36 491
2	Spanish (es) Purgatorio		13 569
3	Russian (ru) Чистилище		6 771
4	German (de) Fegefeuer		5 031
5	Japanese (ja) 煉獄		4 989
6	Portuguese (pt) Purgatório		3 585
7	French (fr) Purgatoire		3 317
8	Polish (pl) Czyściec		2 583
9	Italian (it) Purgatorio		1 996
10	Dutch (nl) Vagevuur		1 499

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Purgatory		628
2	German (de) Fegefeuer		251
3	French (fr) Purgatoire		200
4	Spanish (es) Purgatorio		161
5	Italian (it) Purgatorio		160
6	Polish (pl) Czyściec		111
7	Dutch (nl) Vagevuur		92
8	Russian (ru) Чистилище		81
9	Portuguese (pt) Purgatório		76
10	Japanese (ja) 煉獄		59

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	Italian (it) Purgatorio		3
2	Spanish (es) Purgatorio		2
3	German (de) Fegefeuer		1
4	English (en) Purgatory		1
5	French (fr) Purgatoire		1
6	Galician (gl) Purgatorio		1
7	Hebrew (he) כור המצרף		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Purgatórium		1
9	Turkish (tr) Araf		1
10	Arabic (ar) المطهر		0

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

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