The Onion

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The Onion - American satire news organization. This company is the 848^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 441^st most popular company in English Wikipedia. Article “The Onion” in English Wikipedia has 75.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 309 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.43 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:

en

The 4375^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 441^st most popular in business in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 848^th most popular in business.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5489^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “The Onion” was edited by 12 authors in English Wikipedia (5489^th place) and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Onion”, its content was written by 1169 registered users of English Wikipedia (4375^th place) and edited by 1510 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Onion is on the 441^st place in local ranking of business in English Wikipedia and on the 848^th place in global ranking of business in all the time.

The article is cited 1892 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3186 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #580 in November 2004
• Global: #1149 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1994 in November 2024
• Global: #4760 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, 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) The Onion		75.8325
2	Chinese (zh) 洋葱报		68.6371
3	German (de) The Onion		45.0417
4	Italian (it) The Onion		34.443
5	Russian (ru) The Onion		31.707
6	Malay (ms) The Onion		31.3711
7	Japanese (ja) ジ・オニオン		30.618
8	Spanish (es) The Onion		28.8929
9	Finnish (fi) The Onion		28.0016
10	Norwegian (no) The Onion		24.4959

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Onion		8 307 215
2	German (de) The Onion		212 136
3	French (fr) The Onion		128 257
4	Chinese (zh) 洋葱报		110 340
5	Russian (ru) The Onion		82 675
6	Spanish (es) The Onion		74 923
7	Japanese (ja) ジ・オニオン		61 349
8	Portuguese (pt) The Onion		31 818
9	Dutch (nl) The Onion		25 981
10	Swedish (sv) The Onion		23 917

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		25 428
2	German (de) The Onion		577
3	Chinese (zh) 洋葱报		443
4	Russian (ru) The Onion		409
5	French (fr) The Onion		355
6	Spanish (es) The Onion		247
7	Simple English (simple) The Onion		239
8	Japanese (ja) ジ・オニオン		221
9	Italian (it) The Onion		128
10	Finnish (fi) The Onion		103

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		1 169
2	German (de) The Onion		69
3	French (fr) The Onion		37
4	Chinese (zh) 洋葱报		37
5	Russian (ru) The Onion		27
6	Japanese (ja) ジ・オニオン		19
7	Spanish (es) The Onion		18
8	Ukrainian (uk) The Onion		17
9	Swedish (sv) The Onion		16
10	Portuguese (pt) The Onion		14

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		12
2	Spanish (es) The Onion		2
3	Korean (ko) 디 어니언		2
4	Hebrew (he) The Onion		1
5	Arabic (ar) ذي أنيون		0
6	German (de) The Onion		0
7	Persian (fa) دی آنین		0
8	Finnish (fi) The Onion		0
9	French (fr) 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.

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