Varg Vikernes

Quality:

Varg Vikernes - Norwegian murderer and black metal musician. This person is the 3166^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 188^th most popular person in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. Article “Varg Vikernes” in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has 41.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.19 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 2445^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

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The 566^th most editable in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

The 188^th most popular in people in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8523^rd most popular in AI.

The 3166^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia:

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The 606^th most popular in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9931^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Varg Vikernes”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia (566^th place) and edited by 2738 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8523^rd place).

Varg Vikernes is on the 188^th place in local ranking of people in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and on the 3166^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 13 times in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia and cited 2358 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #15 in July 2011
• Global: #175 in July 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian (Nynorsk)): #5 in July 2013
• Global: #1431 in July 2013

There are 42 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) Varg Vikernes		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Varg Vikernes		92.7273
3	Catalan (ca) Varg Vikernes		84.7692
4	Greek (el) Βαργκ Βίκερνες		79.9053
5	Japanese (ja) ヴァルグ・ヴィーケネス		73.1167
6	German (de) Varg Vikernes		66.8715
7	Norwegian (no) Varg Vikernes		56.6488
8	Russian (ru) Викернес, Варг		56.2529
9	Serbian (sr) Кристијан Викернес		54.5607
10	Romanian (ro) Varg Vikernes		52.8977

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Varg Vikernes		11 538 181
2	Russian (ru) Викернес, Варг		2 761 212
3	Spanish (es) Varg Vikernes		2 355 552
4	German (de) Varg Vikernes		1 621 471
5	Portuguese (pt) Varg Vikernes		907 640
6	Polish (pl) Varg Vikernes		858 712
7	Italian (it) Varg Vikernes		843 078
8	French (fr) Varg Vikernes		740 380
9	Norwegian (no) Varg Vikernes		610 572
10	Swedish (sv) Varg Vikernes		538 275

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) Varg Vikernes		58 777
2	Russian (ru) Викернес, Варг		11 414
3	Spanish (es) Varg Vikernes		9 801
4	German (de) Varg Vikernes		8 079
5	French (fr) Varg Vikernes		5 699
6	Portuguese (pt) Varg Vikernes		3 278
7	Italian (it) Varg Vikernes		3 130
8	Norwegian (no) Varg Vikernes		2 410
9	Polish (pl) Varg Vikernes		2 193
10	Japanese (ja) ヴァルグ・ヴィーケネス		2 056

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Varg Vikernes		872
2	French (fr) Varg Vikernes		206
3	German (de) Varg Vikernes		180
4	Italian (it) Varg Vikernes		162
5	Russian (ru) Викернес, Варг		153
6	Norwegian (no) Varg Vikernes		130
7	Spanish (es) Varg Vikernes		126
8	Portuguese (pt) Varg Vikernes		115
9	Finnish (fi) Varg Vikernes		89
10	Dutch (nl) Varg Vikernes		81

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) Varg Vikernes		3
2	Hebrew (he) וארג ויקרנס		2
3	Russian (ru) Викернес, Варг		2
4	Arabic (ar) فارغ فيكرنس		1
5	German (de) Varg Vikernes		1
6	Persian (fa) وارگ ویکرنس		1
7	Norwegian (no) Varg Vikernes		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Varg Vikernes		1
9	Serbian (sr) Кристијан Викернес		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Varq Vikernes		0

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

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