בן ערובה

Quality:

Hostage - person/entity held by a belligerent party to another or seized for carrying out agreement. Article “בן ערובה” in Hebrew Wikipedia has 17.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “בן ערובה”, its content was written by 52 registered users of Hebrew Wikipedia and edited by 1148 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 502 times in Hebrew Wikipedia (7607^th place) and cited 7899 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Hebrew): #2906 in May 2007
• Global: #6294 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Hebrew): #1546 in October 2023
• Global: #34103 in August 2010

There are 43 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) Hostage		62.6053
2	Italian (it) Ostaggio		49.738
3	Catalan (ca) Ostatge		48.0229
4	Russian (ru) Заложник		44.0089
5	French (fr) Otage		40.8956
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Gissel		37.106
7	Malay (ms) Tebusan		36.938
8	Dutch (nl) Gijzelaar		31.0667
9	Vietnamese (vi) Con tin		29.6647
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Talac		28.7709

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hostage		2 168 429
2	Russian (ru) Заложник		355 530
3	Japanese (ja) 人質		283 555
4	French (fr) Otage		253 951
5	Spanish (es) Rehén		200 392
6	German (de) Geisel		193 681
7	Dutch (nl) Gijzelaar		157 157
8	Chinese (zh) 人质		103 405
9	Hebrew (he) בן ערובה		81 766
10	Polish (pl) Zakładnik		72 554

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) Hostage		9 166
2	French (fr) Otage		1 154
3	Russian (ru) Заложник		1 082
4	Japanese (ja) 人質		727
5	Chinese (zh) 人质		556
6	Dutch (nl) Gijzelaar		488
7	Persian (fa) گروگان‌گیری		485
8	German (de) Geisel		483
9	Simple English (simple) Hostage		436
10	Spanish (es) Rehén		352

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hostage		279
2	French (fr) Otage		137
3	Russian (ru) Заложник		73
4	Dutch (nl) Gijzelaar		72
5	German (de) Geisel		66
6	Japanese (ja) 人質		62
7	Hebrew (he) בן ערובה		52
8	Spanish (es) Rehén		28
9	Chinese (zh) 人质		25
10	Czech (cs) Rukojmí		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	Danish (da) Gidsel		2
2	English (en) Hostage		1
3	Spanish (es) Rehén		1
4	Finnish (fi) Panttivanki		1
5	Japanese (ja) 人質		1
6	Arabic (ar) رهينة		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Girov		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Заложник		0
9	Catalan (ca) Ostatge		0
10	Czech (cs) Rukojmí		0

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

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