Walter Benjamin

Quality:

Walter Benjamin - German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940). This person is the 6368^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Walter Benjamin” in Italian Wikipedia has 23.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.23 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 6986^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7451^st most popular in AI.

The 6368^th most popular in people.

In June 2026 the article “Walter Benjamin” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Walter Benjamin”, its content was written by 185 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (6986^th place) and edited by 2967 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7451^st place).

Walter Benjamin is on the 6368^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 251 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 8044 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1683 in August 2007
• Global: #2076 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #3680 in April 2023
• Global: #2492 in April 2023

There are 47 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	German (de) Walter Benjamin		96
2	English (en) Walter Benjamin		94.4246
3	French (fr) Walter Benjamin		58.4193
4	Greek (el) Βάλτερ Μπένγιαμιν		52.1287
5	Spanish (es) Walter Benjamin		42.2001
6	Catalan (ca) Walter Benjamin		36.8034
7	Armenian (hy) Վալտեր Բենիամին		36.2777
8	Norwegian (no) Walter Benjamin		36.1744
9	Romanian (ro) Walter Benjamin		35.5725
10	Lithuanian (lt) Walter Benjamin		35.522

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Walter Benjamin		5 083 826
2	German (de) Walter Benjamin		2 183 886
3	Spanish (es) Walter Benjamin		2 117 607
4	French (fr) Walter Benjamin		1 135 375
5	Portuguese (pt) Walter Benjamin		1 055 044
6	Italian (it) Walter Benjamin		933 069
7	Japanese (ja) ヴァルター・ベンヤミン		603 935
8	Russian (ru) Беньямин, Вальтер		495 279
9	Chinese (zh) 瓦尔特·本雅明		311 327
10	Polish (pl) Walter Benjamin		216 519

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) Walter Benjamin		21 015
2	German (de) Walter Benjamin		8 508
3	Spanish (es) Walter Benjamin		4 464
4	French (fr) Walter Benjamin		4 278
5	Italian (it) Walter Benjamin		3 173
6	Japanese (ja) ヴァルター・ベンヤミン		2 614
7	Portuguese (pt) Walter Benjamin		2 262
8	Russian (ru) Беньямин, Вальтер		2 112
9	Chinese (zh) 瓦尔特·本雅明		1 462
10	Dutch (nl) Walter Benjamin		702

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Walter Benjamin		494
2	German (de) Walter Benjamin		439
3	French (fr) Walter Benjamin		293
4	Italian (it) Walter Benjamin		185
5	Spanish (es) Walter Benjamin		183
6	Hebrew (he) ולטר בנימין		124
7	Dutch (nl) Walter Benjamin		107
8	Russian (ru) Беньямин, Вальтер		104
9	Japanese (ja) ヴァルター・ベンヤミン		95
10	Portuguese (pt) Walter Benjamin		80

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) Walter Benjamin		5
2	French (fr) Walter Benjamin		3
3	Catalan (ca) Walter Benjamin		2
4	Serbian (sr) Валтер Бенјамин		2
5	German (de) Walter Benjamin		1
6	Spanish (es) Walter Benjamin		1
7	Persian (fa) والتر بنیامین		1
8	Italian (it) Walter Benjamin		1
9	Korean (ko) 발터 벤야민		1
10	Swedish (sv) Walter Benjamin		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information