Abstinence

Quality:

Abstinence - self-enforced restraint from indulging in an activity. Article “Abstinence” in Simple English Wikipedia has 32.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 13 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Abstinence”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1026 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 18 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2772 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1523 in June 2021
• Global: #3369 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5485 in January 2026
• Global: #15420 in February 2013

There are 37 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, 2026 (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) Abstinenz		44.7361
2	English (en) Abstinence		44.0003
3	Simple English (simple) Abstinence		32.1752
4	Turkish (tr) Riyazet		28.0529
5	Bulgarian (bg) Абстиненция		21.7518
6	French (fr) Abstinence		21.617
7	Uzbek (uz) Abstinensiya		21.0684
8	Ukrainian (uk) Стриманість		20.7155
9	Hungarian (hu) Absztinencia		19.6017
10	Spanish (es) Abstinencia		19.3604

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Abstinence		3 070 199
2	German (de) Abstinenz		1 888 748
3	Spanish (es) Abstinencia		1 771 029
4	Portuguese (pt) Abstinência		1 179 035
5	Japanese (ja) 禁欲		506 417
6	Russian (ru) Воздержание		378 756
7	Swedish (sv) Abstinens		357 762
8	French (fr) Abstinence		314 561
9	Polish (pl) Abstynencja		287 921
10	Bulgarian (bg) Абстиненция		274 664

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) Abstinence		4 547
2	German (de) Abstinenz		1 682
3	Persian (fa) پرهیز از لذت‌ها		799
4	Japanese (ja) 禁欲		780
5	Russian (ru) Воздержание		701
6	Chinese (zh) 禁慾		619
7	Spanish (es) Abstinencia		594
8	Czech (cs) Abstinence		392
9	French (fr) Abstinence		366
10	Polish (pl) Abstynencja		325

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Abstinence		285
2	German (de) Abstinenz		180
3	French (fr) Abstinence		78
4	Spanish (es) Abstinencia		41
5	Polish (pl) Abstynencja		40
6	Hebrew (he) גמילה		39
7	Japanese (ja) 禁欲		32
8	Czech (cs) Abstinence		31
9	Swedish (sv) Abstinens		30
10	Portuguese (pt) Abstinência		25

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	German (de) Abstinenz		2
2	English (en) Abstinence		1
3	Croatian (hr) Apstinencija		1
4	Arabic (ar) امتناع عن الملذات		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Abstinensiya		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Абстиненция		0
7	Catalan (ca) Abstinència		0
8	Czech (cs) Abstinence		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Abstinado		0
10	Spanish (es) Abstinencia		0

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

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