Underground press

Underground press - periodicals and publications that are produced without official approval, illegally or against the government. Article “Underground press” in English Wikipedia has 79.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 67 references and 30 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.

Since the creation of article “Underground press”, its content was written by 196 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 265 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 726 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1264 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11732 in April 2005
• Global: #39206 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #187349 in April 2010
• Global: #203924 in March 2010

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) Underground press		79.3315
2	Norwegian (no) Undergrunnspresse		27.6137
3	German (de) Untergrundliteratur		25.1107
4	Dutch (nl) Illegale pers		15.3576
5	Indonesian (id) Pers bawah tanah		9.0799
6	Korean (ko) 지하 언론		4.6057
7	Persian (fa) مطبوعات زیرزمینی		3.9392
8	Chinese (zh) 地下刊物		3.8401
9	Japanese (ja) 地下出版		0.2942

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Underground press" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Underground press		554 304
2	Dutch (nl) Illegale pers		62 120
3	Japanese (ja) 地下出版		21 095
4	German (de) Untergrundliteratur		19 795
5	Chinese (zh) 地下刊物		13 440
6	Norwegian (no) Undergrunnspresse		5 077
7	Persian (fa) مطبوعات زیرزمینی		1 622
8	Indonesian (id) Pers bawah tanah		1 428
9	Korean (ko) 지하 언론		130

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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 "Underground press" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Underground press		2 181
2	Japanese (ja) 地下出版		242
3	Chinese (zh) 地下刊物		169
4	Dutch (nl) Illegale pers		83
5	German (de) Untergrundliteratur		59
6	Norwegian (no) Undergrunnspresse		18
7	Persian (fa) مطبوعات زیرزمینی		14
8	Korean (ko) 지하 언론		13
9	Indonesian (id) Pers bawah tanah		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 "Underground press" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Underground press		196
2	Norwegian (no) Undergrunnspresse		24
3	Dutch (nl) Illegale pers		19
4	German (de) Untergrundliteratur		15
5	Persian (fa) مطبوعات زیرزمینی		4
6	Japanese (ja) 地下出版		3
7	Indonesian (id) Pers bawah tanah		2
8	Chinese (zh) 地下刊物		2
9	Korean (ko) 지하 언론		0

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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 "Underground press" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Untergrundliteratur		0
2	English (en) Underground press		0
3	Persian (fa) مطبوعات زیرزمینی		0
4	Indonesian (id) Pers bawah tanah		0
5	Japanese (ja) 地下出版		0
6	Korean (ko) 지하 언론		0
7	Dutch (nl) Illegale pers		0
8	Norwegian (no) Undergrunnspresse		0
9	Chinese (zh) 地下刊物		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 "Underground press" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Underground press		726
2	Dutch (nl) Illegale pers		220
3	Persian (fa) مطبوعات زیرزمینی		99
4	Japanese (ja) 地下出版		78
5	Korean (ko) 지하 언론		52
6	Chinese (zh) 地下刊物		50
7	German (de) Untergrundliteratur		22
8	Norwegian (no) Undergrunnspresse		12
9	Indonesian (id) Pers bawah tanah		5

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#	Language	Value
de	German Untergrundliteratur
en	English Underground press
fa	Persian مطبوعات زیرزمینی
id	Indonesian Pers bawah tanah
ja	Japanese 地下出版
ko	Korean 지하 언론
nl	Dutch Illegale pers
no	Norwegian Undergrunnspresse
zh	Chinese 地下刊物

Best Rank

English: #187349 04.2010

Global: #203924 03.2010

Best Rank

English: #11732 04.2005

Global: #39206 04.2005

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