Serial killer

Quality:

Serial killer - individual who has killed three or more people over a period of more than a month. Article “Serial killer” in Italian Wikipedia has 33.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.74 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 2820^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia.

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The 4320^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3079^th most popular in all topics.

The 4123^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6549^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Serial killer” was edited by 2 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Serial killer”, its content was written by 223 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (4320^th place) and edited by 3920 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4123^rd place).

The article is cited 1400 times in Italian Wikipedia (6192^nd place) and cited 18947 times in all languages (9132^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1048 in April 2011
• Global: #466 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #287 in October 2022
• Global: #641 in October 2022

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, 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) Serial killer		94.2285
2	Turkish (tr) Seri katil		77.9621
3	Vietnamese (vi) Sát nhân hàng loạt		70.1389
4	Portuguese (pt) Assassino em série		59.8737
5	Spanish (es) Asesino en serie		52.1051
6	Finnish (fi) Sarjamurhaaja		50.6725
7	Russian (ru) Серийный убийца		48.1605
8	Japanese (ja) シリアルキラー		46.4946
9	Tamil (ta) தொடர் கொலையாளி		42.7947
10	French (fr) Tueur en série		42.0537

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Serial killer		27 178 116
2	Japanese (ja) シリアルキラー		5 543 367
3	Russian (ru) Серийный убийца		4 805 958
4	Spanish (es) Asesino en serie		4 027 280
5	Italian (it) Serial killer		2 895 099
6	French (fr) Tueur en série		2 069 656
7	Portuguese (pt) Assassino em série		1 953 956
8	Dutch (nl) Seriemoordenaar		1 692 508
9	Polish (pl) Seryjny morderca		1 072 498
10	Turkish (tr) Seri katil		545 189

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) Serial killer		65 138
2	Japanese (ja) シリアルキラー		18 576
3	Russian (ru) Серийный убийца		13 659
4	Spanish (es) Asesino en serie		6 802
5	French (fr) Tueur en série		5 306
6	Italian (it) Serial killer		4 537
7	Persian (fa) قاتل زنجیره‌ای		2 603
8	Dutch (nl) Seriemoordenaar		2 586
9	Polish (pl) Seryjny morderca		2 506
10	Chinese (zh) 連環殺手		2 165

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Serial killer		1 751
2	Italian (it) Serial killer		223
3	Spanish (es) Asesino en serie		207
4	French (fr) Tueur en série		207
5	Russian (ru) Серийный убийца		199
6	Dutch (nl) Seriemoordenaar		153
7	Hebrew (he) רוצח סדרתי		109
8	Portuguese (pt) Assassino em série		107
9	Japanese (ja) シリアルキラー		95
10	Swedish (sv) Seriemördare		76

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	English (en) Serial killer		6
2	Finnish (fi) Sarjamurhaaja		2
3	Italian (it) Serial killer		2
4	Arabic (ar) قاتل متسلسل		1
5	Catalan (ca) Assassí en sèrie		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Sorozatgyilkos		1
7	Japanese (ja) シリアルキラー		1
8	Russian (ru) Серийный убийца		1
9	Thai (th) ฆาตกรต่อเนื่อง		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Seriyalı qatil		0

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

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