Viktor But

Quality:

Viktor Bout - Russian convicted illegal arms dealer. This person is the 5426^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Viktor But” in Estonian Wikipedia has 58.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.09 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Estonian) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5426^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Estonian Wikipedia:

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The 5056^th most editable in Estonian Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Viktor But” was edited by 1 authors in Estonian Wikipedia (5056^th place) and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Viktor But”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Estonian Wikipedia and edited by 1438 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Viktor Bout is on the 5426^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 5 times in Estonian Wikipedia and cited 392 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Estonian): #149 in October 2024
• Global: #49 in December 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Estonian): #1806 in December 2022
• Global: #23 in December 2022

There are 31 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) Viktor Bout		90.0609
2	Russian (ru) Бут, Виктор Анатольевич		74.6708
3	German (de) Wiktor Anatoljewitsch But		68.0029
4	Estonian (et) Viktor But		58.6364
5	Esperanto (eo) Viktor But		53.8888
6	Armenian (hy) Վիկտոր Բուտ		47.3159
7	French (fr) Viktor Bout		46.7135
8	Italian (it) Viktor But		44.9939
9	Turkish (tr) Viktor But		42.0406
10	Chinese (zh) 维克托·布特		41.3843

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Viktor Bout		9 053 816
2	Russian (ru) Бут, Виктор Анатольевич		3 940 962
3	German (de) Wiktor Anatoljewitsch But		964 542
4	French (fr) Viktor Bout		757 086
5	Spanish (es) Víktor But		461 058
6	Polish (pl) Wiktor But		291 503
7	Italian (it) Viktor But		224 135
8	Portuguese (pt) Viktor Bout		132 812
9	Chinese (zh) 维克托·布特		124 784
10	Dutch (nl) Viktor Boet		103 932

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Viktor Bout		47 680
2	Russian (ru) Бут, Виктор Анатольевич		16 124
3	Spanish (es) Víktor But		2 823
4	French (fr) Viktor Bout		2 503
5	German (de) Wiktor Anatoljewitsch But		2 387
6	Italian (it) Viktor But		1 384
7	Chinese (zh) 维克托·布特		997
8	Polish (pl) Wiktor But		684
9	Japanese (ja) ビクトル・ボウト		601
10	Portuguese (pt) Viktor Bout		584

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Viktor Bout		521
2	Russian (ru) Бут, Виктор Анатольевич		153
3	German (de) Wiktor Anatoljewitsch But		143
4	French (fr) Viktor Bout		127
5	Spanish (es) Víktor But		51
6	Italian (it) Viktor But		51
7	Dutch (nl) Viktor Boet		35
8	Ukrainian (uk) Бут Віктор Анатолійович		35
9	Danish (da) Viktor But		30
10	Hebrew (he) ויקטור בוט		28

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Viktor Bout		3
2	Russian (ru) Бут, Виктор Анатольевич		2
3	Estonian (et) Viktor But		1
4	Arabic (ar) فيكتور بوت		0
5	Catalan (ca) Viktor Bout		0
6	Czech (cs) Viktor But		0
7	Danish (da) Viktor But		0
8	German (de) Wiktor Anatoljewitsch But		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Viktor But		0
10	Spanish (es) Víktor But		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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