Criticism of Wikipedia

Quality:

Criticism of Wikipedia - overview on criticisms of Wikipedia site and its content. Article “Criticism of Wikipedia” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2595^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4875^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Criticism of Wikipedia”, its content was written by 52 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2595^th place) and edited by 3639 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4875^th place).

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1328 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #101 in March 2014
• Global: #1115 in August 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #643 in September 2010
• Global: #37061 in October 2008

There are 26 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	Thai (th) ข้อวิจารณ์วิกิพีเดีย		92.918
2	Hungarian (hu) A Wikipédia kritikái		91.4286
3	English (en) Criticism of Wikipedia		88.0497
4	Portuguese (pt) Críticas à Wikipédia		79.1987
5	Hebrew (he) ביקורת על ויקיפדיה		77.6106
6	German (de) Kritik an Wikipedia		76.1905
7	Polish (pl) Krytyka Wikipedii		68.6303
8	Spanish (es) Crítica a Wikipedia		61.5829
9	Chinese (zh) 對維基百科的批評		53.9
10	Finnish (fi) Wikipedian kritiikki		53.7246

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Criticism of Wikipedia		1 656 120
2	German (de) Kritik an Wikipedia		340 151
3	Japanese (ja) ウィキペディアへの批判		146 684
4	French (fr) Critiques de Wikipédia		111 278
5	Chinese (zh) 對維基百科的批評		81 626
6	Polish (pl) Krytyka Wikipedii		79 087
7	Korean (ko) 위키백과에 대한 비판		61 961
8	Portuguese (pt) Críticas à Wikipédia		49 621
9	Simple English (simple) Criticism of Wikipedia		43 971
10	Persian (fa) انتقادها به ویکی‌پدیا		28 103

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) Criticism of Wikipedia		4 901
2	German (de) Kritik an Wikipedia		827
3	French (fr) Critiques de Wikipédia		484
4	Chinese (zh) 對維基百科的批評		462
5	Japanese (ja) ウィキペディアへの批判		425
6	Portuguese (pt) Críticas à Wikipédia		170
7	Simple English (simple) Criticism of Wikipedia		138
8	Thai (th) ข้อวิจารณ์วิกิพีเดีย		130
9	Korean (ko) 위키백과에 대한 비판		110
10	Hebrew (he) ביקורת על ויקיפדיה		100

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Criticism of Wikipedia		2 070
2	German (de) Kritik an Wikipedia		482
3	French (fr) Critiques de Wikipédia		244
4	Chinese (zh) 對維基百科的批評		120
5	Japanese (ja) ウィキペディアへの批判		117
6	Korean (ko) 위키백과에 대한 비판		113
7	Polish (pl) Krytyka Wikipedii		110
8	Portuguese (pt) Críticas à Wikipédia		80
9	Hebrew (he) ביקורת על ויקיפדיה		61
10	Simple English (simple) Criticism of Wikipedia		52

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) Criticism of Wikipedia		12
2	Hebrew (he) ביקורת על ויקיפדיה		2
3	Hungarian (hu) A Wikipédia kritikái		2
4	Chinese (zh) 對維基百科的批評		2
5	French (fr) Critiques de Wikipédia		1
6	Indonesian (id) Kritik terhadap Wikipedia		1
7	Arabic (ar) انتقاد ويكيبيديا		0
8	Belarusian (be) Крытыка Вікіпедыі		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Критика към Уикипедия		0
10	German (de) Kritik an Wikipedia		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information