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Quality:

Wait But Why - American blog website. This website is the 2487th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites. Article “Wait But Why” in Russian Wikipedia has 26.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 2487th most popular in websites.

Since the creation of article “Wait But Why”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 85 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wait But Why is on the 2487th place in global ranking of websites on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 13 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Russian): #32596 in July 2017
  • Global: #106596 in March 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Russian): #170571 in August 2019
  • Global: #103830 in February 2023

There are 6 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Chinese (zh)
Wait But Why
34.8785
2Uzbek (uz)
Wait But Why
27.9483
3Russian (ru)
Wait But Why
26.7018
4Ukrainian (uk)
Wait But Why
26.326
5English (en)
Wait But Why
25.8916
6French (fr)
Wait But Why
24.1788
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Wait But Why" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Wait But Why
571 455
2Russian (ru)
Wait But Why
28 398
3French (fr)
Wait But Why
14 469
4Chinese (zh)
Wait But Why
9 861
5Ukrainian (uk)
Wait But Why
1 866
6Uzbek (uz)
Wait But Why
178
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Wait But Why" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Wait But Why
1 068
2Chinese (zh)
Wait But Why
94
3Russian (ru)
Wait But Why
84
4French (fr)
Wait But Why
55
5Uzbek (uz)
Wait But Why
19
6Ukrainian (uk)
Wait But Why
10
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Wait But Why" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Wait But Why
66
2French (fr)
Wait But Why
10
3Russian (ru)
Wait But Why
3
4Ukrainian (uk)
Wait But Why
3
5Chinese (zh)
Wait But Why
2
6Uzbek (uz)
Wait But Why
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Wait But Why" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Wait But Why
0
2French (fr)
Wait But Why
0
3Russian (ru)
Wait But Why
0
4Ukrainian (uk)
Wait But Why
0
5Uzbek (uz)
Wait But Why
0
6Chinese (zh)
Wait But Why
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Wait But Why" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Wait But Why
8
2Russian (ru)
Wait But Why
2
3Ukrainian (uk)
Wait But Why
2
4Chinese (zh)
Wait But Why
1
5French (fr)
Wait But Why
0
6Uzbek (uz)
Wait But Why
0
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Wait But Why
frFrench
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ruRussian
Wait But Why
ukUkrainian
Wait But Why
uzUzbek
Wait But Why
zhChinese
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Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Russian:
#170571
08.2019
Global:
#103830
02.2023

AI rank trends

Best Rank Russian:
#32596
07.2017
Global:
#106596
03.2016

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Wait But Why from Wikipedia articles about Tim Urban, Tim Urban, The Free Press, The Apprentice, season 6 and Neuralink. Whereas reading the article about Wait But Why people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Tim Urban, Website, Procrastination, Long-form journalism and TED.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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In Russian Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Хаменеи, Али, Иран, Американо-израильско-иранская война (2026), Ирано-израильская война, Хомейни, Рухолла, Пезешкиан, Масуд, Высший руководитель Ирана, Эпштейн, Джеффри, Ормузский пролив, Кох, Альфред Рейнгольдович.

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