Initiation

Quality:

Initiation - rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. Article “Initiation” in French Wikipedia has 20.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.06 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Initiation”, its content was written by 121 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1026 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 247 times in French Wikipedia and cited 4330 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #824 in May 2006
• Global: #1952 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #6207 in February 2015
• Global: #14800 in March 2012

There are 29 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	Indonesian (id) Inisiasi		62.9249
2	English (en) Initiation		61.1743
3	German (de) Initiation		49.7696
4	Italian (it) Iniziazione		44.4526
5	Croatian (hr) Inicijacija		33.1909
6	Czech (cs) Iniciační rituál		30.7599
7	Spanish (es) Iniciación		30.3731
8	Hebrew (he) טקס חניכה		28.1048
9	Turkish (tr) Kılavuzluk		25.8298
10	Arabic (ar) طقوس إدخالية		24.7953

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Initiation		2 628 453
2	Russian (ru) Инициация		1 220 495
3	German (de) Initiation		1 200 226
4	Italian (it) Iniziazione		587 520
5	French (fr) Initiation		557 684
6	Turkish (tr) Kılavuzluk		483 579
7	Polish (pl) Inicjacja		371 068
8	Portuguese (pt) Iniciação		276 270
9	Spanish (es) Iniciación		230 986
10	Indonesian (id) Inisiasi		190 847

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) Initiation		4 248
2	Russian (ru) Инициация		2 086
3	German (de) Initiation		1 980
4	Italian (it) Iniziazione		1 220
5	Turkish (tr) Kılavuzluk		558
6	French (fr) Initiation		465
7	Spanish (es) Iniciación		303
8	Polish (pl) Inicjacja		288
9	Portuguese (pt) Iniciação		261
10	Persian (fa) تشرف		181

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Initiation		248
2	English (en) Initiation		214
3	French (fr) Initiation		121
4	Italian (it) Iniziazione		64
5	Russian (ru) Инициация		59
6	Czech (cs) Iniciační rituál		35
7	Turkish (tr) Kılavuzluk		31
8	Dutch (nl) Initiatie (antropologie)		29
9	Hebrew (he) טקס חניכה		28
10	Portuguese (pt) Iniciação		24

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	Arabic (ar) طقوس إدخالية		1
2	Belarusian (be) Ініцыяцыя		0
3	Czech (cs) Iniciační rituál		0
4	Danish (da) Initiation		0
5	German (de) Initiation		0
6	English (en) Initiation		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Inico		0
8	Spanish (es) Iniciación		0
9	Persian (fa) تشرف		0
10	Finnish (fi) Initiaatio		0

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

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