暗黒時代

Dark Ages - historical period. Article “暗黒時代” in Japanese Wikipedia has 22.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 3 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 “暗黒時代”, its content was written by 50 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 1647 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 127 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 2441 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #1141 in July 2004
• Global: #2132 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #25537 in January 2008
• Global: #12061 in December 2020

There are 36 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) Dark Ages (historiography)		70.1721
2	Chinese (zh) 歐洲黑暗時代		60.666
3	Norwegian (no) De mørke århundrer		51.9362
4	Malay (ms) Zaman Kelam		39.1218
5	Arabic (ar) العصور المظلمة (علم التأريخ)		34.919
6	Thai (th) ยุคมืด		30.6541
7	Portuguese (pt) Idade das trevas		30.1878
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thời kỳ Tăm tối (sử học)		29.7546
9	Italian (it) Secoli bui		28.779
10	French (fr) Âge sombre		28.3213

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

The most popular language versions of the article "暗黒時代" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dark Ages (historiography)		9 867 796
2	Japanese (ja) 暗黒時代		842 731
3	Russian (ru) Тёмные века европейской истории		840 921
4	Chinese (zh) 歐洲黑暗時代		595 134
5	Portuguese (pt) Idade das trevas		472 321
6	Indonesian (id) Zaman Kegelapan (historiografi)		367 542
7	German (de) Dunkle Jahrhunderte		351 243
8	Thai (th) ยุคมืด		332 673
9	Spanish (es) Años oscuros		315 001
10	French (fr) Âge sombre		262 214

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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 "暗黒時代" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dark Ages (historiography)		38 705
2	Russian (ru) Тёмные века европейской истории		3 270
3	Chinese (zh) 歐洲黑暗時代		2 433
4	Japanese (ja) 暗黒時代		1 970
5	German (de) Dunkle Jahrhunderte		1 145
6	French (fr) Âge sombre		1 080
7	Vietnamese (vi) Thời kỳ Tăm tối (sử học)		997
8	Spanish (es) Años oscuros		840
9	Italian (it) Secoli bui		699
10	Portuguese (pt) Idade das trevas		680

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dark Ages (historiography)		822
2	Russian (ru) Тёмные века европейской истории		92
3	French (fr) Âge sombre		84
4	Italian (it) Secoli bui		53
5	Japanese (ja) 暗黒時代		50
6	German (de) Dunkle Jahrhunderte		47
7	Chinese (zh) 歐洲黑暗時代		47
8	Norwegian (no) De mørke århundrer		44
9	Portuguese (pt) Idade das trevas		35
10	Spanish (es) Años oscuros		32

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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 "暗黒時代" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dark Ages (historiography)		4
2	Portuguese (pt) Idade das trevas		1
3	Russian (ru) Тёмные века европейской истории		1
4	Arabic (ar) العصور المظلمة (علم التأريخ)		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Qaranlıq dövr		0
6	Catalan (ca) Anys obscurs		0
7	Czech (cs) Temný věk		0
8	Danish (da) Den mørke middelalder		0
9	German (de) Dunkle Jahrhunderte		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Malluma Epoko		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 "暗黒時代" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Dark Ages (historiography)		855
2	Portuguese (pt) Idade das trevas		258
3	Russian (ru) Тёмные века европейской истории		142
4	Japanese (ja) 暗黒時代		127
5	Chinese (zh) 歐洲黑暗時代		106
6	Arabic (ar) العصور المظلمة (علم التأريخ)		98
7	Ukrainian (uk) Темні століття середньовіччя		81
8	French (fr) Âge sombre		79
9	Korean (ko) 중세 암흑시대		78
10	Italian (it) Secoli bui		59

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic العصور المظلمة (علم التأريخ)
az	Azerbaijani Qaranlıq dövr
ca	Catalan Anys obscurs
cs	Czech Temný věk
da	Danish Den mørke middelalder
de	German Dunkle Jahrhunderte
en	English Dark Ages (historiography)
eo	Esperanto Malluma Epoko
es	Spanish Años oscuros
et	Estonian Pime keskaeg
fa	Persian سده‌های تاریکی (تاریخ‌نگاری)
fi	Finnish Pimeä keskiaika
fr	French Âge sombre
gl	Galician Anos escuros
hi	Hindi अंधकार युग
id	Indonesian Zaman Kegelapan (historiografi)
it	Italian Secoli bui
ja	Japanese 暗黒時代
ko	Korean 중세 암흑시대
lt	Lithuanian Tamsieji amžiai
ms	Malay Zaman Kelam
nl	Dutch Donkere middeleeuwen
no	Norwegian De mørke århundrer
pl	Polish Wieki ciemne (średniowiecze)
pt	Portuguese Idade das trevas
ro	Romanian Evul Mediu întunecat
ru	Russian Тёмные века европейской истории
sh	Serbo-Croatian Mračno doba (Evropa)
sr	Serbian Мрачно доба
sv	Swedish Den mörka tiden
th	Thai ยุคมืด
tr	Turkish Karanlık Çağ
uk	Ukrainian Темні століття середньовіччя
vi	Vietnamese Thời kỳ Tăm tối (sử học)
zh	Chinese 歐洲黑暗時代
zhminnan	Min Nan O͘-àm Sî-tāi

Best Rank

Japanese: #25537 01.2008

Global: #12061 12.2020

Best Rank

Japanese: #1141 07.2004

Global: #2132 10.2002

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