Auto-immolation

Quality:

Self-immolation - ritualistic and political suicide method. Article “Auto-immolation” in French Wikipedia has 28.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 24 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.48 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Auto-immolation” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Auto-immolation”, its content was written by 58 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1627 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 106 times in French Wikipedia and cited 2726 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #3217 in November 2011
• Global: #962 in February 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #35949 in November 2019
• Global: #2725 in February 2024

There are 35 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, 2026 (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) Self-immolation		74.5799
2	German (de) Selbstverbrennung		65.5887
3	Turkish (tr) Kendini ateşe verme		46.586
4	Spanish (es) Inmolación		41.4548
5	Indonesian (id) Bakar diri		40.9764
6	Greek (el) Αυτοπυρπόληση		39.8762
7	Hebrew (he) הצתה עצמית		33.1409
8	Persian (fa) خودسوزی		31.9957
9	Swedish (sv) Självbränning		29.0427
10	Simple English (simple) Self-immolation		28.7699

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Self-immolation		9 657 836
2	Spanish (es) Inmolación		1 845 198
3	Japanese (ja) 焼身自殺		658 040
4	German (de) Selbstverbrennung		539 713
5	Russian (ru) Самосожжение		477 266
6	Portuguese (pt) Autoimolação		274 186
7	Chinese (zh) 自焚		268 676
8	Polish (pl) Samospalenie (forma samobójstwa)		261 118
9	French (fr) Auto-immolation		128 560
10	Persian (fa) خودسوزی		116 027

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) Self-immolation		34 102
2	Japanese (ja) 焼身自殺		2 933
3	Russian (ru) Самосожжение		2 509
4	Spanish (es) Inmolación		1 970
5	German (de) Selbstverbrennung		1 112
6	Chinese (zh) 自焚		1 089
7	Persian (fa) خودسوزی		808
8	Polish (pl) Samospalenie (forma samobójstwa)		550
9	Hebrew (he) הצתה עצמית		460
10	Italian (it) Autoimmolazione		339

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Self-immolation		556
2	German (de) Selbstverbrennung		224
3	Spanish (es) Inmolación		141
4	Polish (pl) Samospalenie (forma samobójstwa)		85
5	Russian (ru) Самосожжение		85
6	Chinese (zh) 自焚		70
7	Hebrew (he) הצתה עצמית		65
8	French (fr) Auto-immolation		58
9	Japanese (ja) 焼身自殺		52
10	Dutch (nl) Zelfverbranding		32

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	Japanese (ja) 焼身自殺		4
2	English (en) Self-immolation		2
3	Czech (cs) Sebeupálení		1
4	Finnish (fi) Polttoitsemurha		1
5	French (fr) Auto-immolation		1
6	Arabic (ar) تضحية بالنفس		0
7	Catalan (ca) Immolació		0
8	Danish (da) Selvafbrænding		0
9	German (de) Selbstverbrennung		0
10	Greek (el) Αυτοπυρπόληση		0

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

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