Southern question

Southern Question - Economic gap between Northern and Southern Italy. Article “Southern question” in English Wikipedia has 90.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 175 references and 24 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is Italian.

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

Since the creation of article “Southern question”, its content was written by 17 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 325 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 763 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1106 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19065 in July 2024
• Global: #38738 in November 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #378430 in December 2024
• Global: #122029 in June 2010

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	English (en) Southern question		90.2704
2	Italian (it) Questione meridionale		87.4185
3	Chinese (zh) 南方问题		54.0933
4	Slovenian (sl) Gospodarsko razhajanje med severom in jugom Italije		47.0856
5	French (fr) Question méridionale		39.1485
6	Catalan (ca) Qüestió meridional		19.2128
7	Persian (fa) پرسش جنوب		15.2328

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Southern question" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Italian (it) Questione meridionale		1 385 875
2	English (en) Southern question		27 050
3	Chinese (zh) 南方问题		25 406
4	French (fr) Question méridionale		19 352
5	Slovenian (sl) Gospodarsko razhajanje med severom in jugom Italije		1 807
6	Persian (fa) پرسش جنوب		849
7	Catalan (ca) Qüestió meridional		528

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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 "Southern question" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Italian (it) Questione meridionale		2 798
2	English (en) Southern question		1 871
3	Chinese (zh) 南方问题		394
4	French (fr) Question méridionale		122
5	Catalan (ca) Qüestió meridional		20
6	Slovenian (sl) Gospodarsko razhajanje med severom in jugom Italije		16
7	Persian (fa) پرسش جنوب		13

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Questione meridionale		272
2	French (fr) Question méridionale		23
3	English (en) Southern question		17
4	Chinese (zh) 南方问题		9
5	Slovenian (sl) Gospodarsko razhajanje med severom in jugom Italije		2
6	Catalan (ca) Qüestió meridional		1
7	Persian (fa) پرسش جنوب		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 "Southern question" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Southern question		4
2	Catalan (ca) Qüestió meridional		0
3	Persian (fa) پرسش جنوب		0
4	French (fr) Question méridionale		0
5	Italian (it) Questione meridionale		0
6	Slovenian (sl) Gospodarsko razhajanje med severom in jugom Italije		0
7	Chinese (zh) 南方问题		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 "Southern question" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Southern question		763
2	Italian (it) Questione meridionale		261
3	Chinese (zh) 南方问题		43
4	French (fr) Question méridionale		35
5	Slovenian (sl) Gospodarsko razhajanje med severom in jugom Italije		3
6	Persian (fa) پرسش جنوب		1
7	Catalan (ca) Qüestió meridional		0

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Qüestió meridional
en	English Southern question
fa	Persian پرسش جنوب
fr	French Question méridionale
it	Italian Questione meridionale
sl	Slovenian Gospodarsko razhajanje med severom in jugom Italije
zh	Chinese 南方问题

Best Rank

English: #378430 12.2024

Global: #122029 06.2010

Best Rank

English: #19065 07.2024

Global: #38738 11.2014

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