Walter Benjamin

Quality:

Walter Benjamin - German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940). This person is the 6256^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Walter Benjamin” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 21 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.1 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Portuguese Wikipedia:

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The 9970^th most popular in Portuguese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7537^th most popular in AI.

The 6256^th most popular in people.

In June 2025 the article “Walter Benjamin” was edited by 1 authors in Portuguese Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Walter Benjamin”, its content was written by 79 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 2904 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7537^th place).

Walter Benjamin is on the 6256^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 265 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 7222 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #1782 in October 2013
• Global: #2077 in July 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #1395 in April 2023
• Global: #2492 in April 2023

There are 47 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	German (de) Walter Benjamin		97.1429
2	English (en) Walter Benjamin		93.5495
3	French (fr) Walter Benjamin		50.4464
4	Greek (el) Βάλτερ Μπένγιαμιν		48.3725
5	Catalan (ca) Walter Benjamin		36.7295
6	Armenian (hy) Վալտեր Բենիամին		36.325
7	Romanian (ro) Walter Benjamin		35.7397
8	Lithuanian (lt) Walter Benjamin		35.2936
9	Polish (pl) Walter Benjamin		33.0355
10	Spanish (es) Walter Benjamin		32.5601

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Walter Benjamin		4 797 571
2	German (de) Walter Benjamin		2 056 229
3	Spanish (es) Walter Benjamin		2 050 783
4	French (fr) Walter Benjamin		1 074 814
5	Portuguese (pt) Walter Benjamin		1 028 339
6	Italian (it) Walter Benjamin		893 472
7	Japanese (ja) ヴァルター・ベンヤミン		571 741
8	Russian (ru) Беньямин, Вальтер		447 174
9	Chinese (zh) 瓦尔特·本雅明		291 505
10	Polish (pl) Walter Benjamin		209 794

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) Walter Benjamin		20 862
2	German (de) Walter Benjamin		9 996
3	Spanish (es) Walter Benjamin		5 806
4	French (fr) Walter Benjamin		4 378
5	Italian (it) Walter Benjamin		3 000
6	Japanese (ja) ヴァルター・ベンヤミン		2 738
7	Portuguese (pt) Walter Benjamin		2 507
8	Russian (ru) Беньямин, Вальтер		2 175
9	Chinese (zh) 瓦尔特·本雅明		1 789
10	Dutch (nl) Walter Benjamin		591

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Walter Benjamin		470
2	German (de) Walter Benjamin		430
3	French (fr) Walter Benjamin		284
4	Italian (it) Walter Benjamin		182
5	Spanish (es) Walter Benjamin		177
6	Hebrew (he) ולטר בנימין		121
7	Dutch (nl) Walter Benjamin		107
8	Russian (ru) Беньямин, Вальтер		101
9	Japanese (ja) ヴァルター・ベンヤミン		91
10	Portuguese (pt) Walter Benjamin		79

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) Walter Benjamin		3
2	German (de) Walter Benjamin		2
3	Spanish (es) Walter Benjamin		2
4	Serbian (sr) Валтер Бенјамин		2
5	Hebrew (he) ולטר בנימין		1
6	Japanese (ja) ヴァルター・ベンヤミン		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Walter Benjamin		1
8	Russian (ru) Беньямин, Вальтер		1
9	Turkish (tr) Walter Benjamin		1
10	Chinese (zh) 瓦尔特·本雅明		1

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

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