Minute de silence

Quality:

Moment of silence - period of silent contemplation, prayer, reflection, or meditation at a gathering, often as a gesture of respect in mourning. Article “Minute de silence” in French Wikipedia has 93 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 381 references and 23 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Minute de silence” was edited by 5 authors in French Wikipedia (2619^th place) and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Minute de silence”, its content was written by 96 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 610 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 321 times in French Wikipedia and cited 1718 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #621 in March 2004
• Global: #6017 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #4729 in November 2015
• Global: #34318 in November 2015

There are 30 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	French (fr) Minute de silence		92.9625
2	English (en) Moment of silence		52.4889
3	German (de) Schweigeminute		41.2411
4	Finnish (fi) Hiljainen hetki		35.4485
5	Latin (la) Momentum silentii		29.6459
6	Hebrew (he) דקת דומייה		26.6145
7	Ukrainian (uk) Хвилина мовчання		26.6091
8	Norwegian (no) Ett minutts stillhet		25.9954
9	Simple English (simple) Moment of silence		25.6882
10	Basque (eu) Minutuko isilune		25.0323

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Moment of silence		1 188 460
2	Japanese (ja) 黙祷		727 477
3	French (fr) Minute de silence		217 557
4	German (de) Schweigeminute		184 142
5	Russian (ru) Минута молчания		170 214
6	Spanish (es) Minuto de silencio		141 492
7	Simple English (simple) Moment of silence		85 945
8	Chinese (zh) 默哀		63 023
9	Ukrainian (uk) Хвилина мовчання		54 759
10	Swedish (sv) Tyst minut		46 445

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) Moment of silence		3 029
2	Japanese (ja) 黙祷		1 142
3	Russian (ru) Минута молчания		937
4	French (fr) Minute de silence		904
5	German (de) Schweigeminute		389
6	Ukrainian (uk) Хвилина мовчання		376
7	Spanish (es) Minuto de silencio		316
8	Polish (pl) Minuta ciszy		141
9	Chinese (zh) 默哀		132
10	Indonesian (id) Mengheningkan cipta		126

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Moment of silence		214
2	French (fr) Minute de silence		96
3	German (de) Schweigeminute		63
4	Hebrew (he) דקת דומייה		24
5	Russian (ru) Минута молчания		24
6	Japanese (ja) 黙祷		22
7	Swedish (sv) Tyst minut		22
8	Simple English (simple) Moment of silence		20
9	Spanish (es) Minuto de silencio		13
10	Finnish (fi) Hiljainen hetki		11

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	French (fr) Minute de silence		5
2	Finnish (fi) Hiljainen hetki		1
3	Japanese (ja) 黙祷		1
4	Russian (ru) Минута молчания		1
5	Arabic (ar) دقيقة صمت		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Bir dəqiqəlik sükut		0
7	Czech (cs) Minuta ticha		0
8	Danish (da) Et minuts stilhed		0
9	German (de) Schweigeminute		0
10	English (en) Moment of silence		0

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

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