The Third Wave (experiment)

The Third Wave - social experiment on the spread of Nazism. Article “The Third Wave (experiment)” in English Wikipedia has 46.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 33 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.46 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.

In June 2025 the article “The Third Wave (experiment)” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Third Wave (experiment)”, its content was written by 255 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 742 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 24 times in English Wikipedia and cited 170 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15931 in March 2019
• Global: #18375 in March 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3434 in February 2018
• Global: #8743 in February 2018

There are 28 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 Third Wave (experiment)		46.7626
2	Catalan (ca) Tercera Onada		45.1663
3	Portuguese (pt) Terceira Onda		40.0095
4	Hebrew (he) הגל השלישי		37.8127
5	Simple English (simple) The Third Wave (experiment)		37.7012
6	Korean (ko) 제3의 물결 (실험)		35.8545
7	Arabic (ar) الموجة الثالثة (تجربة)		32.8156
8	Armenian (hy) Երրորդ ալիք (գիտափորձ)		31.7655
9	Turkish (tr) Üçüncü Dalga		31.6603
10	Croatian (hr) Eksperiment „Treći val”		30.0517

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Third Wave (experiment)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Third Wave (experiment)		2 285 804
2	Spanish (es) Tercera Ola		1 098 560
3	German (de) The Third Wave		1 097 883
4	Russian (ru) Третья волна (эксперимент)		1 015 677
5	French (fr) Expérience de la Troisième Vague		589 753
6	Italian (it) La Terza Onda		270 032
7	Polish (pl) Trzecia Fala		171 961
8	Portuguese (pt) Terceira Onda		158 605
9	Japanese (ja) サードウェイブ実験		126 513
10	Swedish (sv) The Third Wave		124 399

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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 "The Third Wave (experiment)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Third Wave (experiment)		11 297
2	French (fr) Expérience de la Troisième Vague		3 024
3	German (de) The Third Wave		3 004
4	Russian (ru) Третья волна (эксперимент)		2 448
5	Spanish (es) Tercera Ola		1 858
6	Polish (pl) Trzecia Fala		1 171
7	Italian (it) La Terza Onda		763
8	Japanese (ja) サードウェイブ実験		712
9	Simple English (simple) The Third Wave (experiment)		373
10	Portuguese (pt) Terceira Onda		274

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

Language versions of the article "The Third Wave (experiment)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Third Wave (experiment)		255
2	German (de) The Third Wave		86
3	French (fr) Expérience de la Troisième Vague		84
4	Spanish (es) Tercera Ola		51
5	Dutch (nl) De Derde Golf		39
6	Italian (it) La Terza Onda		31
7	Russian (ru) Третья волна (эксперимент)		28
8	Danish (da) Den tredje bølge		13
9	Ukrainian (uk) Третя хвиля		13
10	Finnish (fi) The Third Wave		12

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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 "The Third Wave (experiment)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Third Wave (experiment)		3
2	Arabic (ar) الموجة الثالثة (تجربة)		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Третата вълна		0
4	Catalan (ca) Tercera Onada		0
5	Danish (da) Den tredje bølge		0
6	German (de) The Third Wave		0
7	Greek (el) Το Τρίτο Κύμα		0
8	Spanish (es) Tercera Ola		0
9	Finnish (fi) The Third Wave		0
10	French (fr) Expérience de la Troisième Vague		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 "The Third Wave (experiment)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Third Wave (experiment)		24
2	French (fr) Expérience de la Troisième Vague		20
3	German (de) The Third Wave		18
4	Spanish (es) Tercera Ola		12
5	Italian (it) La Terza Onda		10
6	Russian (ru) Третья волна (эксперимент)		9
7	Japanese (ja) サードウェイブ実験		8
8	Swedish (sv) The Third Wave		8
9	Dutch (nl) De Derde Golf		7
10	Catalan (ca) Tercera Onada		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الموجة الثالثة (تجربة)
bg	Bulgarian Третата вълна
ca	Catalan Tercera Onada
da	Danish Den tredje bølge
de	German The Third Wave
el	Greek Το Τρίτο Κύμα
en	English The Third Wave (experiment)
es	Spanish Tercera Ola
fi	Finnish The Third Wave
fr	French Expérience de la Troisième Vague
gl	Galician Terceira Onda
he	Hebrew הגל השלישי
hr	Croatian Eksperiment „Treći val”
hy	Armenian Երրորդ ալիք (գիտափորձ)
id	Indonesian Eksperimen gelombang ketiga
it	Italian La Terza Onda
ja	Japanese サードウェイブ実験
ko	Korean 제3의 물결 (실험)
nl	Dutch De Derde Golf
pl	Polish Trzecia Fala
pt	Portuguese Terceira Onda
ru	Russian Третья волна (эксперимент)
simple	Simple English The Third Wave (experiment)
sv	Swedish The Third Wave
tr	Turkish Üçüncü Dalga
uk	Ukrainian Третя хвиля
uz	Uzbek Uchinchi to'lqin (tajriba)
zh	Chinese 第三浪潮 (實驗)

Best Rank

English: #3434 02.2018

Global: #8743 02.2018

Best Rank

English: #15931 03.2019

Global: #18375 03.2010

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