The Onion

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The Onion - American satire news organization. This company is the 914^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 474^th most popular company in English Wikipedia. Article “The Onion” in English Wikipedia has 80.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 325 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.94 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 4280^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 474^th most popular in business in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 914^th most popular in business.

In June 2026 the article “The Onion” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Onion”, its content was written by 1206 registered users of English Wikipedia (4280^th place) and edited by 1558 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Onion is on the 474^th place in local ranking of business in English Wikipedia and on the 914^th place in global ranking of business in all the time.

The article is cited 1880 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3251 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #579 in November 2004
• Global: #1151 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1991 in November 2024
• Global: #4731 in November 2024

There are 22 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) The Onion		80.4173
2	Chinese (zh) 洋葱报		60.997
3	German (de) The Onion		44.0691
4	Italian (it) The Onion		34.3049
5	Malay (ms) The Onion		32.0582
6	Japanese (ja) ジ・オニオン		30.0397
7	Russian (ru) The Onion		29.8093
8	Spanish (es) The Onion		28.4033
9	Finnish (fi) The Onion		28.0182
10	Norwegian (no) The Onion		24.4799

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Onion		8 377 902
2	German (de) The Onion		220 146
3	French (fr) The Onion		133 485
4	Chinese (zh) 洋葱报		114 871
5	Russian (ru) The Onion		86 724
6	Spanish (es) The Onion		77 997
7	Japanese (ja) ジ・オニオン		63 976
8	Portuguese (pt) The Onion		32 884
9	Dutch (nl) The Onion		26 885
10	Swedish (sv) The Onion		24 393

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) The Onion		20 046
2	German (de) The Onion		473
3	Chinese (zh) 洋葱报		313
4	French (fr) The Onion		295
5	Russian (ru) The Onion		280
6	Simple English (simple) The Onion		233
7	Spanish (es) The Onion		158
8	Japanese (ja) ジ・オニオン		149
9	Italian (it) The Onion		110
10	Dutch (nl) The Onion		56

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Onion		1 206
2	German (de) The Onion		72
3	Chinese (zh) 洋葱报		38
4	French (fr) The Onion		37
5	Russian (ru) The Onion		29
6	Japanese (ja) ジ・オニオン		21
7	Spanish (es) The Onion		19
8	Ukrainian (uk) The Onion		17
9	Swedish (sv) The Onion		16
10	Portuguese (pt) The Onion		15

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) The Onion		5
2	German (de) The Onion		1
3	Spanish (es) The Onion		1
4	French (fr) The Onion		1
5	Russian (ru) The Onion		1
6	Arabic (ar) ذي أنيون		0
7	Persian (fa) دی آنین		0
8	Finnish (fi) The Onion		0
9	Hebrew (he) The Onion		0
10	Indonesian (id) The Onion		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information