Abstention

Election abstention - intentionally refraining from voting. Article “Abstention” in French Wikipedia has 53.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 47 references and 30 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Italian.

Since the creation of article “Abstention”, its content was written by 176 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 751 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 621 times in French Wikipedia and cited 4155 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #96 in October 2004
• Global: #11182 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #2640 in April 2017
• Global: #14706 in April 2019

There are 23 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	German (de) Nichtwähler		67.2728
2	French (fr) Abstention		53.1657
3	Italian (it) Astensionismo		37.9202
4	Indonesian (id) Golongan putih		37.1298
5	English (en) Abstention		31.5561
6	Portuguese (pt) Abstenção		31.25
7	Spanish (es) Abstención		30.0312
8	Catalan (ca) Abstencionisme		27.279
9	Armenian (hy) Ձեռնպահություն		24.2149
10	Arabic (ar) امتناع عن التصويت		23.6751

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Abstention		1 479 944
2	Spanish (es) Abstención		910 524
3	French (fr) Abstention		583 726
4	Portuguese (pt) Abstenção		433 965
5	German (de) Nichtwähler		384 792
6	Indonesian (id) Golongan putih		314 267
7	Italian (it) Astensionismo		181 920
8	Japanese (ja) 棄権		156 444
9	Dutch (nl) Stemonthouding		56 945
10	Arabic (ar) امتناع عن التصويت		50 132

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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 "Abstention" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Italian (it) Astensionismo		6 129
2	English (en) Abstention		5 714
3	Spanish (es) Abstención		2 004
4	French (fr) Abstention		618
5	Portuguese (pt) Abstenção		538
6	Japanese (ja) 棄権		394
7	Chinese (zh) 棄權票		219
8	German (de) Nichtwähler		177
9	Dutch (nl) Stemonthouding		169
10	Korean (ko) 기권 (선거)		155

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Abstention		176
2	English (en) Abstention		165
3	German (de) Nichtwähler		121
4	Italian (it) Astensionismo		56
5	Spanish (es) Abstención		52
6	Japanese (ja) 棄権		26
7	Portuguese (pt) Abstenção		26
8	Indonesian (id) Golongan putih		19
9	Danish (da) Sofavælger		18
10	Catalan (ca) Abstencionisme		16

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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 "Abstention" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Abstención		6
2	Italian (it) Astensionismo		1
3	Arabic (ar) امتناع عن التصويت		0
4	Catalan (ca) Abstencionisme		0
5	Danish (da) Sofavælger		0
6	German (de) Nichtwähler		0
7	Greek (el) Αποχή (εκλογές)		0
8	English (en) Abstention		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Sindeteno		0
10	Basque (eu) Abstentzio		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 "Abstention" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Abstention		684
2	French (fr) Abstention		621
3	Catalan (ca) Abstencionisme		578
4	Dutch (nl) Stemonthouding		384
5	Spanish (es) Abstención		358
6	Arabic (ar) امتناع عن التصويت		336
7	Portuguese (pt) Abstenção		231
8	Galician (gl) Abstención		141
9	Japanese (ja) 棄権		130
10	Italian (it) Astensionismo		123

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic امتناع عن التصويت
ca	Catalan Abstencionisme
da	Danish Sofavælger
de	German Nichtwähler
el	Greek Αποχή (εκλογές)
en	English Abstention
eo	Esperanto Sindeteno
es	Spanish Abstención
eu	Basque Abstentzio
fa	Persian رأی ندادن
fr	French Abstention
gl	Galician Abstención
hy	Armenian Ձեռնպահություն
id	Indonesian Golongan putih
it	Italian Astensionismo
ja	Japanese 棄権
ko	Korean 기권 (선거)
ms	Malay Tegah diri
nl	Dutch Stemonthouding
pt	Portuguese Abstenção
ro	Romanian Abținere
ur	Urdu رائے دہی سے گریز
zh	Chinese 棄權票

Best Rank

French: #2640 04.2017

Global: #14706 04.2019

Best Rank

French: #96 10.2004

Global: #11182 10.2004

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