Watchmaker analogy

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Watchmaker analogy

Quality:

Watchmaker analogy - teleological argument which states that a design implies a designer. Article “Watchmaker analogy” in English Wikipedia has 57 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 29 references and 16 sections.

This article has the best quality in Esperanto Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Watchmaker analogy”, its content was written by 294 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 509 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 323 times in English Wikipedia and cited 786 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3816 in December 2005
  • Global: #14745 in December 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #35382 in December 2015
  • Global: #67986 in December 2015

There are 17 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Esperanto (eo)
Analogio de la horloĝisto
60.201
2English (en)
Watchmaker analogy
57.0134
3Galician (gl)
Analoxía do reloxeiro
36.3165
4Italian (it)
Analogia dell'orologiaio
31.5101
5Chinese (zh)
鐘錶匠類比
25.9174
6Korean (ko)
시계공 유추
18.4285
7Finnish (fi)
Kelloseppävertaus
17.4193
8German (de)
Uhrmacher-Analogie
16.6753
9Danish (da)
Urmageranalogien
15.7237
10Persian (fa)
تمثیل ساعت‌ساز
14.8233
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Watchmaker analogy" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Watchmaker analogy
2 082 323
2Spanish (es)
Analogía del relojero
98 693
3Italian (it)
Analogia dell'orologiaio
71 300
4Portuguese (pt)
Analogia do relojoeiro
66 397
5German (de)
Uhrmacher-Analogie
48 918
6Simple English (simple)
Watchmaker analogy
36 876
7Chinese (zh)
鐘錶匠類比
25 066
8Finnish (fi)
Kelloseppävertaus
25 065
9Arabic (ar)
حجة صانع الساعة
18 635
10Swedish (sv)
Urmakaranalogin
16 497
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Watchmaker analogy" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Watchmaker analogy
6 585
2Spanish (es)
Analogía del relojero
253
3German (de)
Uhrmacher-Analogie
194
4Italian (it)
Analogia dell'orologiaio
191
5Simple English (simple)
Watchmaker analogy
190
6Portuguese (pt)
Analogia do relojoeiro
155
7Chinese (zh)
鐘錶匠類比
121
8Arabic (ar)
حجة صانع الساعة
72
9Finnish (fi)
Kelloseppävertaus
52
10Korean (ko)
시계공 유추
47
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Watchmaker analogy" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Watchmaker analogy
294
2Italian (it)
Analogia dell'orologiaio
48
3German (de)
Uhrmacher-Analogie
37
4Finnish (fi)
Kelloseppävertaus
22
5Spanish (es)
Analogía del relojero
16
6Portuguese (pt)
Analogia do relojoeiro
16
7Swedish (sv)
Urmakaranalogin
16
8Chinese (zh)
鐘錶匠類比
10
9Esperanto (eo)
Analogio de la horloĝisto
9
10Simple English (simple)
Watchmaker analogy
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Watchmaker analogy" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Uhrmacher-Analogie
1
2Indonesian (id)
Analogi pembuat jam
1
3Arabic (ar)
حجة صانع الساعة
0
4Catalan (ca)
Analogia del rellotger
0
5Danish (da)
Urmageranalogien
0
6English (en)
Watchmaker analogy
0
7Esperanto (eo)
Analogio de la horloĝisto
0
8Spanish (es)
Analogía del relojero
0
9Persian (fa)
تمثیل ساعت‌ساز
0
10Finnish (fi)
Kelloseppävertaus
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Watchmaker analogy" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Watchmaker analogy
323
2Persian (fa)
تمثیل ساعت‌ساز
155
3Arabic (ar)
حجة صانع الساعة
144
4Korean (ko)
시계공 유추
36
5Spanish (es)
Analogía del relojero
22
6Indonesian (id)
Analogi pembuat jam
21
7Portuguese (pt)
Analogia do relojoeiro
15
8Italian (it)
Analogia dell'orologiaio
14
9German (de)
Uhrmacher-Analogie
12
10Finnish (fi)
Kelloseppävertaus
11
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
حجة صانع الساعة
caCatalan
Analogia del rellotger
daDanish
Urmageranalogien
deGerman
Uhrmacher-Analogie
enEnglish
Watchmaker analogy
eoEsperanto
Analogio de la horloĝisto
esSpanish
Analogía del relojero
faPersian
تمثیل ساعت‌ساز
fiFinnish
Kelloseppävertaus
glGalician
Analoxía do reloxeiro
idIndonesian
Analogi pembuat jam
itItalian
Analogia dell'orologiaio
koKorean
시계공 유추
ptPortuguese
Analogia do relojoeiro
simpleSimple English
Watchmaker analogy
svSwedish
Urmakaranalogin
zhChinese
鐘錶匠類比

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#35382
12.2015
Global:
#67986
12.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3816
12.2005
Global:
#14745
12.2005

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Watchmaker analogy from Wikipedia articles about Richard Dawkins, William Paley, Intelligent design, The Blind Watchmaker and Teleological argument. Whereas reading the article about Watchmaker analogy people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Teleological argument, William Paley, Intelligent design, The Blind Watchmaker and Deism.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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