The Merry Drinker

A Militiaman Holding a Berkemeyer, Known as the ‘Merry Drinker’ - painting by Frans Hals, Rijksmuseum. This painting is the 2040^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of paintings. Article “The Merry Drinker” in English Wikipedia has 52.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 51 references and 9 sections.

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 Merry Drinker” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Merry Drinker”, its content was written by 21 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 123 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

A Militiaman Holding a Berkemeyer, Known as the ‘Merry Drinker’ is on the 2040^th place in global ranking of paintings on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 83 times in English Wikipedia and cited 192 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #141976 in May 2023
• Global: #46110 in May 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #535110 in May 2020
• Global: #755956 in May 2020

There are 15 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 Merry Drinker		52.0693
2	Slovenian (sl) Veseli pivec (Frans Hals)		32.5031
3	Russian (ru) Весёлый собутыльник		29.2536
4	Armenian (hy) Ուրախ բաժակակիցը (նկար)		29.1535
5	Dutch (nl) De vrolijke drinker (Frans Hals)		26.545
6	Polish (pl) Wesoły pijak		20.7288
7	French (fr) Le Joyeux Buveur (Hals)		14.7307
8	Japanese (ja) 陽気な酒飲み		14.1065
9	Greek (el) Ο Εύθυμος Πότης		13.0181
10	Basque (eu) Zurrutero alaia		12.7433

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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 Merry Drinker" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Merry Drinker		44 722
2	Spanish (es) El alegre bebedor		30 994
3	Russian (ru) Весёлый собутыльник		28 024
4	German (de) Der fröhliche Trinker		21 337
5	Dutch (nl) De vrolijke drinker (Frans Hals)		8 255
6	Polish (pl) Wesoły pijak		3 906
7	Japanese (ja) 陽気な酒飲み		2 717
8	Catalan (ca) L'alegre bevedor		2 358
9	Czech (cs) Veselý piják		1 918
10	Greek (el) Ο Εύθυμος Πότης		629

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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 Merry Drinker" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Merry Drinker		313
2	Japanese (ja) 陽気な酒飲み		110
3	Dutch (nl) De vrolijke drinker (Frans Hals)		97
4	German (de) Der fröhliche Trinker		89
5	Spanish (es) El alegre bebedor		88
6	Russian (ru) Весёлый собутыльник		68
7	Polish (pl) Wesoły pijak		48
8	Czech (cs) Veselý piják		20
9	French (fr) Le Joyeux Buveur (Hals)		12
10	Catalan (ca) L'alegre bevedor		10

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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 Merry Drinker" 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 Merry Drinker		21
2	Dutch (nl) De vrolijke drinker (Frans Hals)		21
3	Russian (ru) Весёлый собутыльник		17
4	German (de) Der fröhliche Trinker		16
5	Spanish (es) El alegre bebedor		12
6	Greek (el) Ο Εύθυμος Πότης		7
7	French (fr) Le Joyeux Buveur (Hals)		5
8	Catalan (ca) L'alegre bevedor		4
9	Japanese (ja) 陽気な酒飲み		4
10	Polish (pl) Wesoły pijak		4

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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 Merry Drinker" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Merry Drinker		1
2	Catalan (ca) L'alegre bevedor		0
3	Czech (cs) Veselý piják		0
4	German (de) Der fröhliche Trinker		0
5	Greek (el) Ο Εύθυμος Πότης		0
6	Spanish (es) El alegre bebedor		0
7	Basque (eu) Zurrutero alaia		0
8	French (fr) Le Joyeux Buveur (Hals)		0
9	Armenian (hy) Ուրախ բաժակակիցը (նկար)		0
10	Japanese (ja) 陽気な酒飲み		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 Merry Drinker" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Merry Drinker		83
2	French (fr) Le Joyeux Buveur (Hals)		37
3	Japanese (ja) 陽気な酒飲み		26
4	Dutch (nl) De vrolijke drinker (Frans Hals)		21
5	Russian (ru) Весёлый собутыльник		8
6	Spanish (es) El alegre bebedor		4
7	German (de) Der fröhliche Trinker		3
8	Czech (cs) Veselý piják		2
9	Greek (el) Ο Εύθυμος Πότης		2
10	Basque (eu) Zurrutero alaia		2

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan L'alegre bevedor
cs	Czech Veselý piják
de	German Der fröhliche Trinker
el	Greek Ο Εύθυμος Πότης
en	English The Merry Drinker
es	Spanish El alegre bebedor
eu	Basque Zurrutero alaia
fr	French Le Joyeux Buveur (Hals)
hy	Armenian Ուրախ բաժակակիցը (նկար)
ja	Japanese 陽気な酒飲み
nl	Dutch De vrolijke drinker (Frans Hals)
pl	Polish Wesoły pijak
ru	Russian Весёлый собутыльник
sl	Slovenian Veseli pivec (Frans Hals)
uk	Ukrainian Веселий випивака

Best Rank

English: #535110 05.2020

Global: #755956 05.2020

Best Rank

English: #141976 05.2023

Global: #46110 05.2016

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