Basic Instinct

Quality:

Basic Instinct - 1992 film directed by Paul Verhoeven. This film is the 470^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 88^th most popular film in French Wikipedia. Article “Basic Instinct” in French Wikipedia has 41.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 45 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.6 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 4130^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

The 88^th most popular in films in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8673^rd most popular in all topics.

The 470^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9066^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Basic Instinct” was edited by 2 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Basic Instinct”, its content was written by 182 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 2092 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Basic Instinct is on the 88^th place in local ranking of films in French Wikipedia and on the 470^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 183 times in French Wikipedia and cited 2415 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #189 in January 2025
• Global: #4604 in January 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #3 in October 2014
• Global: #258 in October 2014

There are 42 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) Basic Instinct		75.7342
2	Portuguese (pt) Basic Instinct		62.3835
3	Vietnamese (vi) Basic Instinct		57.7541
4	German (de) Basic Instinct		56.3475
5	Italian (it) Basic Instinct		47.6783
6	Hungarian (hu) Elemi ösztön		43.7088
7	Azerbaijani (az) Əsas instinkt		43.5456
8	French (fr) Basic Instinct		41.3962
9	Hindi (hi) बेसिक इंस्टिंक्ट		36.8808
10	Hebrew (he) אינסטינקט בסיסי		36.3684

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basic Instinct		13 168 753
2	French (fr) Basic Instinct		2 881 980
3	Russian (ru) Основной инстинкт (фильм)		2 531 903
4	German (de) Basic Instinct		2 476 015
5	Italian (it) Basic Instinct		1 637 052
6	Japanese (ja) 氷の微笑		1 548 954
7	Spanish (es) Basic Instinct		1 386 554
8	Persian (fa) غریزه اصلی		759 140
9	Arabic (ar) غريزة أساسية (فيلم)		490 880
10	Chinese (zh) 第六感追緝令		389 568

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) Basic Instinct		59 408
2	German (de) Basic Instinct		14 535
3	Russian (ru) Основной инстинкт (фильм)		11 451
4	French (fr) Basic Instinct		5 945
5	Arabic (ar) غريزة أساسية (فيلم)		5 717
6	Japanese (ja) 氷の微笑		4 381
7	Italian (it) Basic Instinct		4 311
8	Persian (fa) غریزه اصلی		2 851
9	Spanish (es) Basic Instinct		2 805
10	Chinese (zh) 第六感追緝令		2 000

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basic Instinct		642
2	French (fr) Basic Instinct		182
3	German (de) Basic Instinct		171
4	Italian (it) Basic Instinct		147
5	Russian (ru) Основной инстинкт (фильм)		109
6	Spanish (es) Basic Instinct		78
7	Dutch (nl) Basic Instinct		65
8	Hungarian (hu) Elemi ösztön		60
9	Japanese (ja) 氷の微笑		59
10	Hebrew (he) אינסטינקט בסיסי		51

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	Italian (it) Basic Instinct		4
2	Dutch (nl) Basic Instinct		3
3	English (en) Basic Instinct		2
4	French (fr) Basic Instinct		2
5	Ukrainian (uk) Основний інстинкт		2
6	Indonesian (id) Basic Instinct		1
7	Swedish (sv) Basic Instinct – iskallt begär		1
8	Urdu (ur) بیسک انسٹنکٹ		1
9	Arabic (ar) غريزة أساسية (فيلم)		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Əsas instinkt		0

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

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