Witness (1985 film)

Witness - 1985 film directed by Peter Weir. This film is the 2616^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films. Article “Witness (1985 film)” in English Wikipedia has 60.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 52 references and 20 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 “Witness (1985 film)” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Witness (1985 film)”, its content was written by 341 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1083 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Witness is on the 2616^th place in global ranking of films on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 263 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1777 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6867 in January 2003
• Global: #10852 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12905 in July 2022
• Global: #16281 in July 2022

There are 34 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) Witness (1985 film)		60.7007
2	Croatian (hr) Svjedok (1985.)		53.0015
3	German (de) Der einzige Zeuge		41.8519
4	Greek (el) Μάρτυρας εγκλήματος (ταινία, 1985)		39.4953
5	Norwegian (no) Vitne til mord		27.2077
6	French (fr) Witness (film, 1985)		26.3612
7	Belarusian (be) Сведка (фільм, 1985)		24.8382
8	Catalan (ca) L'únic testimoni		23.2825
9	Spanish (es) Witness (película)		22.9731
10	Italian (it) Witness - Il testimone		22.7297

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Witness (1985 film)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Witness (1985 film)		5 277 711
2	German (de) Der einzige Zeuge		886 181
3	Italian (it) Witness - Il testimone		634 389
4	Japanese (ja) 刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者		588 083
5	French (fr) Witness (film, 1985)		443 413
6	Russian (ru) Свидетель (фильм, 1985)		424 475
7	Spanish (es) Witness (película)		272 654
8	Portuguese (pt) A Testemunha		127 611
9	Swedish (sv) Vittne till mord		71 978
10	Polish (pl) Świadek (film 1985)		55 309

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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 "Witness (1985 film)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Witness (1985 film)		28 131
2	Russian (ru) Свидетель (фильм, 1985)		2 361
3	German (de) Der einzige Zeuge		2 177
4	French (fr) Witness (film, 1985)		1 869
5	Italian (it) Witness - Il testimone		1 599
6	Japanese (ja) 刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者		1 423
7	Spanish (es) Witness (película)		1 327
8	Chinese (zh) 证人 (1985年电影)		601
9	Dutch (nl) Witness (1985)		451
10	Portuguese (pt) A Testemunha		384

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

Language versions of the article "Witness (1985 film)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Witness (1985 film)		341
2	French (fr) Witness (film, 1985)		107
3	German (de) Der einzige Zeuge		104
4	Italian (it) Witness - Il testimone		76
5	Spanish (es) Witness (película)		58
6	Japanese (ja) 刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者		53
7	Russian (ru) Свидетель (фильм, 1985)		52
8	Dutch (nl) Witness (1985)		28
9	Danish (da) Vidnet		26
10	Norwegian (no) Vitne til mord		26

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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 "Witness (1985 film)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Witness (1985 film)		6
2	Spanish (es) Witness (película)		1
3	Galician (gl) Testemuña única		1
4	Italian (it) Witness - Il testimone		1
5	Dutch (nl) Witness (1985)		1
6	Chinese (zh) 证人 (1985年电影)		1
7	Arabic (ar) الشاهد (فيلم 1985)		0
8	Belarusian (be) Сведка (фільм, 1985)		0
9	Catalan (ca) L'únic testimoni		0
10	Danish (da) Vidnet		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 "Witness (1985 film)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Witness (1985 film)		263
2	French (fr) Witness (film, 1985)		121
3	Persian (fa) شاهد (فیلم ۱۹۸۵)		111
4	Japanese (ja) 刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者		109
5	Korean (ko) 위트니스 (1985년 영화)		104
6	Chinese (zh) 证人 (1985年电影)		102
7	German (de) Der einzige Zeuge		92
8	Italian (it) Witness - Il testimone		89
9	Russian (ru) Свидетель (фильм, 1985)		69
10	Turkish (tr) Witness (film, 1985)		64

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الشاهد (فيلم 1985)
be	Belarusian Сведка (фільм, 1985)
ca	Catalan L'únic testimoni
da	Danish Vidnet
de	German Der einzige Zeuge
el	Greek Μάρτυρας εγκλήματος (ταινία, 1985)
en	English Witness (1985 film)
es	Spanish Witness (película)
eu	Basque Witness
fa	Persian شاهد (فیلم ۱۹۸۵)
fi	Finnish Peter Weirin Todistaja
fr	French Witness (film, 1985)
gl	Galician Testemuña única
he	Hebrew העד
hi	Hindi विटनेस
hr	Croatian Svjedok (1985.)
id	Indonesian Witness (film 1985)
it	Italian Witness - Il testimone
ja	Japanese 刑事ジョン・ブック 目撃者
ko	Korean 위트니스 (1985년 영화)
la	Latin Witness
ms	Malay Filem Witness
nl	Dutch Witness (1985)
no	Norwegian Vitne til mord
pl	Polish Świadek (film 1985)
pt	Portuguese A Testemunha
ru	Russian Свидетель (фильм, 1985)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Witness (film, 1985)
simple	Simple English Witness (1985 movie)
sl	Slovenian Priča (film, 1985)
sr	Serbian Сведок (филм из 1985)
sv	Swedish Vittne till mord
tr	Turkish Witness (film, 1985)
zh	Chinese 证人 (1985年电影)

Best Rank

English: #12905 07.2022

Global: #16281 07.2022

Best Rank

English: #6867 01.2003

Global: #10852 01.2003

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