任意

Arbitrariness - quality of being "determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle". Article “任意” in Japanese Wikipedia has 9.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “任意”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 280 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 59 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 588 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #18382 in August 2015
• Global: #39539 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #35930 in February 2015
• Global: #34196 in October 2008

There are 15 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) Arbitrariness		30.48
2	Vietnamese (vi) Tùy ý		25.4208
3	Catalan (ca) Arbitrarietat		23.542
4	Indonesian (id) Kemanasukaan		21.986
5	Swedish (sv) Godtycke		21.9448
6	Estonian (et) Arbitraarsus		19.6776
7	Arabic (ar) تعسف		16.5286
8	French (fr) Arbitraire		14.0651
9	Italian (it) Arbitrarietà		13.1804
10	Japanese (ja) 任意		9.5875

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

The most popular language versions of the article "任意" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Arbitrariness		1 352 478
2	German (de) Arbitrarität		506 212
3	Japanese (ja) 任意		442 605
4	French (fr) Arbitraire		291 639
5	Italian (it) Arbitrarietà		198 499
6	Arabic (ar) تعسف		149 218
7	Ukrainian (uk) Свавілля		60 033
8	Czech (cs) Arbitrárnost		48 615
9	Finnish (fi) Mielivaltaisuus		18 036
10	Chinese (zh) 任意性		8 462

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "任意" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Arbitrariness		2 322
2	German (de) Arbitrarität		589
3	Japanese (ja) 任意		516
4	French (fr) Arbitraire		415
5	Italian (it) Arbitrarietà		262
6	Czech (cs) Arbitrárnost		176
7	Arabic (ar) تعسف		108
8	Ukrainian (uk) Свавілля		75
9	Finnish (fi) Mielivaltaisuus		70
10	Chinese (zh) 任意性		65

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

Language versions of the article "任意" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Arbitrariness		100
2	German (de) Arbitrarität		48
3	French (fr) Arbitraire		36
4	Italian (it) Arbitrarietà		20
5	Japanese (ja) 任意		20
6	Arabic (ar) تعسف		15
7	Ukrainian (uk) Свавілля		9
8	Czech (cs) Arbitrárnost		8
9	Finnish (fi) Mielivaltaisuus		6
10	Catalan (ca) Arbitrarietat		4

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

Language versions of the article "任意" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Arbitrariness		1
2	Arabic (ar) تعسف		0
3	Catalan (ca) Arbitrarietat		0
4	Czech (cs) Arbitrárnost		0
5	German (de) Arbitrarität		0
6	Estonian (et) Arbitraarsus		0
7	Finnish (fi) Mielivaltaisuus		0
8	French (fr) Arbitraire		0
9	Indonesian (id) Kemanasukaan		0
10	Italian (it) Arbitrarietà		0

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

Language versions of the article "任意" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Arbitraire		121
2	Arabic (ar) تعسف		117
3	English (en) Arbitrariness		115
4	German (de) Arbitrarität		62
5	Japanese (ja) 任意		59
6	Ukrainian (uk) Свавілля		28
7	Italian (it) Arbitrarietà		21
8	Catalan (ca) Arbitrarietat		16
9	Czech (cs) Arbitrárnost		11
10	Estonian (et) Arbitraarsus		10

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تعسف
ca	Catalan Arbitrarietat
cs	Czech Arbitrárnost
de	German Arbitrarität
en	English Arbitrariness
et	Estonian Arbitraarsus
fi	Finnish Mielivaltaisuus
fr	French Arbitraire
id	Indonesian Kemanasukaan
it	Italian Arbitrarietà
ja	Japanese 任意
sv	Swedish Godtycke
uk	Ukrainian Свавілля
vi	Vietnamese Tùy ý
zh	Chinese 任意性

Best Rank

Japanese: #35930 02.2015

Global: #34196 10.2008

Best Rank

Japanese: #18382 08.2015

Global: #39539 02.2004

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