The Pirate Bay

Quality:

The Pirate Bay - website providing torrent files and magnet links. This website is the 17^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 12^th most popular website in Norwegian Wikipedia and the 1^st most popular software in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “The Pirate Bay” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 54.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 57 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

no

The 1280^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia.

no

The 4156^th most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia.

The 12^th most popular in websites in Norwegian Wikipedia.

The 1^st most popular in software in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1229^th most popular in all topics.

The 3813^th most popular in AI.

The 17^th most popular in websites.

The 6^th most popular in software.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

no

The 4216^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1928^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Pirate Bay”, its content was written by 82 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia (4156^th place) and edited by 4018 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3813^th place).

The Pirate Bay is on the 12^th place in local ranking of websites in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 17^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The Pirate Bay is on the 1^st place in local ranking of software in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 6^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 32 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 2801 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #17 in June 2006
• Global: #7 in December 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #22 in July 2008
• Global: #38 in December 2014

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	Indonesian (id) The Pirate Bay		97.8774
2	Chinese (zh) 海盜灣		95.6617
3	English (en) The Pirate Bay		94.8595
4	Arabic (ar) ذا بايرت بي		84.6176
5	German (de) The Pirate Bay		74.9411
6	French (fr) The Pirate Bay		68.724
7	Vietnamese (vi) The Pirate Bay		58.4675
8	Swedish (sv) The Pirate Bay		57.6561
9	Norwegian (no) The Pirate Bay		54.8113
10	Italian (it) The Pirate Bay		53.5956

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Pirate Bay		53 895 406
2	Russian (ru) The Pirate Bay		3 305 979
3	Spanish (es) The Pirate Bay		3 291 899
4	French (fr) The Pirate Bay		2 892 297
5	German (de) The Pirate Bay		2 406 720
6	Portuguese (pt) The Pirate Bay		2 301 329
7	Chinese (zh) 海盜灣		2 122 811
8	Polish (pl) The Pirate Bay		1 826 439
9	Swedish (sv) The Pirate Bay		1 754 183
10	Italian (it) The Pirate Bay		1 548 223

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) The Pirate Bay		256 638
2	French (fr) The Pirate Bay		10 453
3	Spanish (es) The Pirate Bay		7 040
4	Portuguese (pt) The Pirate Bay		5 518
5	Chinese (zh) 海盜灣		5 029
6	Russian (ru) The Pirate Bay		4 737
7	German (de) The Pirate Bay		4 565
8	Italian (it) The Pirate Bay		3 426
9	Polish (pl) The Pirate Bay		1 624
10	Arabic (ar) ذا بايرت بي		1 201

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Pirate Bay		1 668
2	French (fr) The Pirate Bay		274
3	German (de) The Pirate Bay		245
4	Swedish (sv) The Pirate Bay		173
5	Spanish (es) The Pirate Bay		153
6	Italian (it) The Pirate Bay		149
7	Dutch (nl) The Pirate Bay		149
8	Russian (ru) The Pirate Bay		132
9	Portuguese (pt) The Pirate Bay		109
10	Finnish (fi) The Pirate Bay		103

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) The Pirate Bay		3
2	German (de) The Pirate Bay		2
3	Spanish (es) The Pirate Bay		1
4	Hebrew (he) The Pirate Bay		1
5	Arabic (ar) ذا بايرت بي		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) The Pirate Bay		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) The Pirate Bay		0
8	Catalan (ca) The Pirate Bay		0
9	Czech (cs) The Pirate Bay		0
10	Danish (da) The Pirate Bay		0

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

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