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Defection

Quality:

Defection - giving up of allegiance to one state for allegiance to another in a manner considered illegitimate by the first state. Article “Defection” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Defection”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 397 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1786 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #724 in December 2020
  • Global: #47500 in October 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #7848 in March 2023
  • Global: #20667 in September 2019

There are 16 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
1Esperanto (eo)
Transfuĝo
52.1777
2English (en)
Defection
40.1125
3Tamil (ta)
பற்றிழத்தல்
26.1905
4Thai (th)
การแปรพักตร์
24.3187
5Simple English (simple)
Defection
19.4502
6Indonesian (id)
Pembelotan
19.358
7Persian (fa)
تغییر وفاداری
17.2788
8Arabic (ar)
انشقاق (علوم عسكرية)
15.061
9French (fr)
Transfuge
13.0547
10Italian (it)
Defezione
9.2237
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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 "Defection" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defection
2 503 101
2Hindi (hi)
दल-बदल
552 968
3French (fr)
Transfuge
214 428
4Chinese (zh)
投誠
156 059
5Italian (it)
Defezione
110 073
6Spanish (es)
Defección
105 102
7Finnish (fi)
Loikkaus
36 538
8Indonesian (id)
Pembelotan
6 371
9Arabic (ar)
انشقاق (علوم عسكرية)
5 850
10Czech (cs)
Zběhnutí
5 541
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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 "Defection" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Defection
10 751
2French (fr)
Transfuge
752
3Chinese (zh)
投誠
678
4Hindi (hi)
दल-बदल
670
5Simple English (simple)
Defection
305
6Spanish (es)
Defección
250
7Italian (it)
Defezione
155
8Finnish (fi)
Loikkaus
107
9Persian (fa)
تغییر وفاداری
45
10Indonesian (id)
Pembelotan
36
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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 "Defection" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Defection
213
2French (fr)
Transfuge
61
3Chinese (zh)
投誠
30
4Finnish (fi)
Loikkaus
24
5Italian (it)
Defezione
19
6Hindi (hi)
दल-बदल
16
7Spanish (es)
Defección
7
8Simple English (simple)
Defection
7
9Esperanto (eo)
Transfuĝo
5
10Arabic (ar)
انشقاق (علوم عسكرية)
4
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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 "Defection" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Defection
1
2Persian (fa)
تغییر وفاداری
1
3Thai (th)
การแปรพักตร์
1
4Arabic (ar)
انشقاق (علوم عسكرية)
0
5Czech (cs)
Zběhnutí
0
6Esperanto (eo)
Transfuĝo
0
7Spanish (es)
Defección
0
8Finnish (fi)
Loikkaus
0
9French (fr)
Transfuge
0
10Hindi (hi)
दल-बदल
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 "Defection" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Defection
1 022
2French (fr)
Transfuge
306
3Spanish (es)
Defección
104
4Chinese (zh)
投誠
99
5Finnish (fi)
Loikkaus
83
6Italian (it)
Defezione
52
7Czech (cs)
Zběhnutí
31
8Simple English (simple)
Defection
23
9Arabic (ar)
انشقاق (علوم عسكرية)
19
10Indonesian (id)
Pembelotan
12
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Scores

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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
انشقاق (علوم عسكرية)
csCzech
Zběhnutí
enEnglish
Defection
eoEsperanto
Transfuĝo
esSpanish
Defección
faPersian
تغییر وفاداری
fiFinnish
Loikkaus
frFrench
Transfuge
hiHindi
दल-बदल
idIndonesian
Pembelotan
itItalian
Defezione
simpleSimple English
Defection
taTamil
பற்றிழத்தல்
thThai
การแปรพักตร์
trTurkish
Taraf değiştirme
zhChinese
投誠

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#7848
03.2023
Global:
#20667
09.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#724
12.2020
Global:
#47500
10.2006

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Defection from Wikipedia articles about North Korean defectors, Ivana Trump, Bart Conner, Romanian Revolution (1989) and The Hunt for Red October. Whereas reading the article about Defection people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Larry Allen Abshier, Travis King, Conrad Schumann, James Joseph Dresnok and Park Yeon-mi.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

zh: 投誠
simple: Defection

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