Addiction

Quality:

Addiction - state characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. Article “Addiction” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4160^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5560^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6664^th most popular in all topics.

The 3464^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6801^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9257^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Addiction”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5560^th place) and edited by 4269 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3464^th place).

The article is cited 192 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10227 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #164 in October 2020
• Global: #184 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1084 in February 2009
• Global: #2234 in November 2008

There are 52 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	English (en) Addiction		91.4286
2	Turkish (tr) Bağımlılık		91.4286
3	Korean (ko) 탐닉		81.5385
4	Japanese (ja) 嗜癖		79.9201
5	Esperanto (eo) Dependeco (medicino)		72.6875
6	Vietnamese (vi) Nghiện		71.0266
7	Basque (eu) Adikzio		68.6663
8	Dutch (nl) Verslaving		63.8853
9	German (de) Abhängigkeit (Medizin)		52.316
10	Arabic (ar) إدمان		50.1414

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Addiction		9 604 425
2	Spanish (es) Adicción		9 007 257
3	German (de) Abhängigkeit (Medizin)		2 520 543
4	French (fr) Addiction		2 460 556
5	Russian (ru) Аддикция		2 250 100
6	Polish (pl) Uzależnienie		2 021 407
7	Persian (fa) اعتیاد		1 414 876
8	Arabic (ar) إدمان		1 121 701
9	Dutch (nl) Verslaving		834 678
10	Italian (it) Dipendenza		808 093

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) Addiction		15 104
2	Persian (fa) اعتیاد		3 379
3	Russian (ru) Аддикция		2 620
4	German (de) Abhängigkeit (Medizin)		2 135
5	Spanish (es) Adicción		1 997
6	Japanese (ja) 嗜癖		1 855
7	French (fr) Addiction		1 816
8	Polish (pl) Uzależnienie		1 280
9	Chinese (zh) 成瘾		1 185
10	Italian (it) Dipendenza		783

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Addiction		1 351
2	German (de) Abhängigkeit (Medizin)		384
3	Spanish (es) Adicción		328
4	French (fr) Addiction		308
5	Dutch (nl) Verslaving		228
6	Polish (pl) Uzależnienie		169
7	Persian (fa) اعتیاد		145
8	Italian (it) Dipendenza		130
9	Arabic (ar) إدمان		95
10	Russian (ru) Аддикция		93

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) Addiction		3
2	German (de) Abhängigkeit (Medizin)		2
3	French (fr) Addiction		2
4	Hebrew (he) התמכרות		2
5	Italian (it) Dipendenza		2
6	Arabic (ar) إدمان		1
7	Basque (eu) Adikzio		1
8	Indonesian (id) Kecanduan		1
9	Japanese (ja) 嗜癖		1
10	Kazakh (kk) Аддикция		1

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

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