Freedom of speech

Quality:

Freedom of speech - right to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas, subject to special duties and responsibilities. Article “Freedom of speech” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3106^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3428^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5775^th most popular in all topics.

The 3314^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7867^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4480^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Freedom of speech”, its content was written by 44 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3428^th place) and edited by 4351 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3314^th place).

The article is cited 196 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 27129 times in all languages (6229^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #29 in September 2005
• Global: #686 in January 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1206 in April 2013
• Global: #1122 in January 2015

There are 54 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	Chinese (zh) 言論自由		92.8321
2	English (en) Freedom of speech		87.702
3	Malay (ms) Kebebasan bersuara		83.3104
4	Korean (ko) 표현의 자유		78.6461
5	French (fr) Liberté d'expression		76.9392
6	Greek (el) Ελευθερία του λόγου		75.6298
7	German (de) Meinungsfreiheit		74.4078
8	Italian (it) Libertà di parola		73.9602
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tự do ngôn luận		73.6022
10	Hebrew (he) חופש הביטוי		71.4074

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Freedom of speech		14 557 588
2	Spanish (es) Libertad de expresión		5 813 306
3	French (fr) Liberté d'expression		2 301 977
4	Portuguese (pt) Liberdade de expressão		2 157 288
5	German (de) Meinungsfreiheit		1 726 958
6	Japanese (ja) 表現の自由		1 522 270
7	Arabic (ar) حرية التعبير		1 378 104
8	Italian (it) Libertà di parola		1 200 253
9	Chinese (zh) 言論自由		1 009 909
10	Russian (ru) Свобода слова		952 411

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) Freedom of speech		13 600
2	German (de) Meinungsfreiheit		2 374
3	Japanese (ja) 表現の自由		2 253
4	Chinese (zh) 言論自由		1 839
5	Spanish (es) Libertad de expresión		1 704
6	French (fr) Liberté d'expression		1 535
7	Persian (fa) آزادی بیان		1 274
8	Russian (ru) Свобода слова		1 194
9	Polish (pl) Wolność słowa		614
10	Portuguese (pt) Liberdade de expressão		570

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Freedom of speech		1 146
2	German (de) Meinungsfreiheit		367
3	French (fr) Liberté d'expression		315
4	Spanish (es) Libertad de expresión		239
5	Dutch (nl) Vrijheid van meningsuiting		163
6	Hebrew (he) חופש הביטוי		154
7	Japanese (ja) 表現の自由		146
8	Chinese (zh) 言論自由		142
9	Swedish (sv) Yttrandefrihet		115
10	Danish (da) Ytringsfrihed		108

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) Freedom of speech		5
2	Spanish (es) Libertad de expresión		5
3	German (de) Meinungsfreiheit		3
4	Russian (ru) Свобода слова		3
5	Hebrew (he) חופש הביטוי		2
6	Norwegian (no) Ytringsfrihet		2
7	Chinese (zh) 言論自由		2
8	Azerbaijani (az) Söz azadlığı		1
9	Czech (cs) Svoboda projevu		1
10	Basque (eu) Adierazpen-askatasun		1

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

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