Traditional authority

Traditional authority - form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to tradition or custom. Article “Traditional authority” in English Wikipedia has 20.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.06 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.

Since the creation of article “Traditional authority”, its content was written by 56 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 88 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 603 times in English Wikipedia and cited 698 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17768 in October 2004
• Global: #52608 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #152783 in February 2017
• Global: #253808 in March 2017

There are 9 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) Traditional authority		20.1091
2	Arabic (ar) سلطة تقليدية		19.4827
3	Chinese (zh) 传统权威		15.7504
4	Indonesian (id) Tokoh adat		12.6292
5	Persian (fa) اقتدار سنتی		12.1049
6	Spanish (es) Autoridad tradicional		7.8622
7	Serbian (sr) Традиционални ауторитет		0.8772
8	Dutch (nl) Traditioneel gezag		0.4507
9	Japanese (ja) 伝統的支配		0.1336

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Traditional authority" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Traditional authority		597 270
2	Chinese (zh) 传统权威		46 646
3	Spanish (es) Autoridad tradicional		28 303
4	Indonesian (id) Tokoh adat		20 634
5	Dutch (nl) Traditioneel gezag		18 778
6	Japanese (ja) 伝統的支配		16 708
7	Arabic (ar) سلطة تقليدية		8 126
8	Persian (fa) اقتدار سنتی		3 213
9	Serbian (sr) Традиционални ауторитет		2 462

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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 "Traditional authority" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Traditional authority		1 601
2	Chinese (zh) 传统权威		155
3	Japanese (ja) 伝統的支配		98
4	Spanish (es) Autoridad tradicional		73
5	Persian (fa) اقتدار سنتی		44
6	Indonesian (id) Tokoh adat		26
7	Arabic (ar) سلطة تقليدية		22
8	Dutch (nl) Traditioneel gezag		15
9	Serbian (sr) Традиционални ауторитет		6

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Traditional authority		56
2	Chinese (zh) 传统权威		10
3	Dutch (nl) Traditioneel gezag		5
4	Indonesian (id) Tokoh adat		4
5	Serbian (sr) Традиционални ауторитет		4
6	Spanish (es) Autoridad tradicional		3
7	Japanese (ja) 伝統的支配		3
8	Persian (fa) اقتدار سنتی		2
9	Arabic (ar) سلطة تقليدية		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 "Traditional authority" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) سلطة تقليدية		0
2	English (en) Traditional authority		0
3	Spanish (es) Autoridad tradicional		0
4	Persian (fa) اقتدار سنتی		0
5	Indonesian (id) Tokoh adat		0
6	Japanese (ja) 伝統的支配		0
7	Dutch (nl) Traditioneel gezag		0
8	Serbian (sr) Традиционални ауторитет		0
9	Chinese (zh) 传统权威		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 "Traditional authority" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Traditional authority		603
2	Indonesian (id) Tokoh adat		35
3	Persian (fa) اقتدار سنتی		15
4	Chinese (zh) 传统权威		14
5	Spanish (es) Autoridad tradicional		11
6	Dutch (nl) Traditioneel gezag		11
7	Arabic (ar) سلطة تقليدية		3
8	Japanese (ja) 伝統的支配		3
9	Serbian (sr) Традиционални ауторитет		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سلطة تقليدية
en	English Traditional authority
es	Spanish Autoridad tradicional
fa	Persian اقتدار سنتی
id	Indonesian Tokoh adat
ja	Japanese 伝統的支配
nl	Dutch Traditioneel gezag
sr	Serbian Традиционални ауторитет
zh	Chinese 传统权威

Best Rank

English: #152783 02.2017

Global: #253808 03.2017

Best Rank

English: #17768 10.2004

Global: #52608 10.2004

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