Opportuniteitsbeginsel

Quality:

Prosecutorial discretion - principle in numerous legal systems. Article “Opportuniteitsbeginsel” in Dutch Wikipedia has 10.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Opportuniteitsbeginsel”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 158 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 300 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #5911 in December 2009
• Global: #9858 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #6783 in October 2017
• Global: #134578 in November 2010

There are 9 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) Prosecutorial discretion		36.4604
2	Estonian (et) Oportuniteedipõhimõte		30.3239
3	Japanese (ja) 起訴便宜主義		24.7773
4	Chinese (zh) 檢控酌情權		17.8917
5	Korean (ko) 기소편의주의		14.7723
6	French (fr) Opportunité des poursuites		13.3639
7	German (de) Opportunitätsprinzip		12.544
8	Dutch (nl) Opportuniteitsbeginsel		10.1631
9	Polish (pl) Oportunizm procesowy		3.8379

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Opportunitätsprinzip		566 317
2	Japanese (ja) 起訴便宜主義		195 803
3	Dutch (nl) Opportuniteitsbeginsel		131 118
4	English (en) Prosecutorial discretion		94 760
5	French (fr) Opportunité des poursuites		93 653
6	Korean (ko) 기소편의주의		26 906
7	Polish (pl) Oportunizm procesowy		11 080
8	Estonian (et) Oportuniteedipõhimõte		4 052
9	Chinese (zh) 檢控酌情權		455

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) Prosecutorial discretion		998
2	German (de) Opportunitätsprinzip		753
3	Japanese (ja) 起訴便宜主義		554
4	French (fr) Opportunité des poursuites		223
5	Korean (ko) 기소편의주의		132
6	Dutch (nl) Opportuniteitsbeginsel		132
7	Polish (pl) Oportunizm procesowy		131
8	Estonian (et) Oportuniteedipõhimõte		44
9	Chinese (zh) 檢控酌情權		28

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Opportunitätsprinzip		48
2	Japanese (ja) 起訴便宜主義		28
3	English (en) Prosecutorial discretion		24
4	French (fr) Opportunité des poursuites		19
5	Dutch (nl) Opportuniteitsbeginsel		14
6	Korean (ko) 기소편의주의		13
7	Estonian (et) Oportuniteedipõhimõte		6
8	Polish (pl) Oportunizm procesowy		3
9	Chinese (zh) 檢控酌情權		3

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	Estonian (et) Oportuniteedipõhimõte		1
2	German (de) Opportunitätsprinzip		0
3	English (en) Prosecutorial discretion		0
4	French (fr) Opportunité des poursuites		0
5	Japanese (ja) 起訴便宜主義		0
6	Korean (ko) 기소편의주의		0
7	Dutch (nl) Opportuniteitsbeginsel		0
8	Polish (pl) Oportunizm procesowy		0
9	Chinese (zh) 檢控酌情權		0

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

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