Grandfather clause

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Grandfather clause

Quality:

Grandfather clause - provision in which existing cases are exempt from a new rule which will apply to future cases. Article “Grandfather clause” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 7 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 “Grandfather clause”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 567 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1376 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #3154 in November 2024
  • Global: #8668 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #34851 in December 2024
  • Global: #7294 in October 2015

There are 13 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
1German (de)
Bestandsschutz
44.4055
2Simple English (simple)
Grandfather clause
23.8904
3Russian (ru)
Дедушкина оговорка
20.9127
4Chinese (zh)
祖父條款
20.0857
5Esperanto (eo)
Ava klaŭzo
19.3231
6English (en)
Grandfather clause
19.1007
7Korean (ko)
할아버지 조항
15.8903
8Finnish (fi)
Saavutettujen etuuksien säilyttämislauseke
14.4489
9Czech (cs)
Dědečkovská klauzule
12.1594
10Swedish (sv)
Övergångsbestämmelse
10.7583
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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 "Grandfather clause" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Grandfather clause
4 505 001
2German (de)
Bestandsschutz
734 273
3Russian (ru)
Дедушкина оговорка
217 766
4French (fr)
Clause d'antériorité
121 070
5Chinese (zh)
祖父條款
91 664
6Swedish (sv)
Övergångsbestämmelse
14 759
7Czech (cs)
Dědečkovská klauzule
8 922
8Bulgarian (bg)
Заварено положение
5 690
9Finnish (fi)
Saavutettujen etuuksien säilyttämislauseke
2 540
10Esperanto (eo)
Ava klaŭzo
1 884
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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 "Grandfather clause" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Grandfather clause
14 504
2German (de)
Bestandsschutz
930
3Russian (ru)
Дедушкина оговорка
833
4Chinese (zh)
祖父條款
586
5French (fr)
Clause d'antériorité
375
6Simple English (simple)
Grandfather clause
165
7Swedish (sv)
Övergångsbestämmelse
35
8Bulgarian (bg)
Заварено положение
23
9Czech (cs)
Dědečkovská klauzule
23
10Korean (ko)
할아버지 조항
22
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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 "Grandfather clause" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Grandfather clause
378
2German (de)
Bestandsschutz
91
3French (fr)
Clause d'antériorité
25
4Russian (ru)
Дедушкина оговорка
25
5Swedish (sv)
Övergångsbestämmelse
12
6Chinese (zh)
祖父條款
12
7Bulgarian (bg)
Заварено положение
6
8Czech (cs)
Dědečkovská klauzule
5
9Esperanto (eo)
Ava klaŭzo
3
10Finnish (fi)
Saavutettujen etuuksien säilyttämislauseke
3
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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 "Grandfather clause" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Chinese (zh)
祖父條款
1
2Bulgarian (bg)
Заварено положение
0
3Czech (cs)
Dědečkovská klauzule
0
4German (de)
Bestandsschutz
0
5English (en)
Grandfather clause
0
6Esperanto (eo)
Ava klaŭzo
0
7Finnish (fi)
Saavutettujen etuuksien säilyttämislauseke
0
8French (fr)
Clause d'antériorité
0
9Korean (ko)
할아버지 조항
0
10Russian (ru)
Дедушкина оговорка
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 "Grandfather clause" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Grandfather clause
840
2German (de)
Bestandsschutz
389
3Chinese (zh)
祖父條款
58
4French (fr)
Clause d'antériorité
35
5Russian (ru)
Дедушкина оговорка
23
6Swedish (sv)
Övergångsbestämmelse
10
7Czech (cs)
Dědečkovská klauzule
4
8Finnish (fi)
Saavutettujen etuuksien säilyttämislauseke
4
9Ukrainian (uk)
Дідове положення
4
10Simple English (simple)
Grandfather clause
3
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Scores

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Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
bgBulgarian
Заварено положение
csCzech
Dědečkovská klauzule
deGerman
Bestandsschutz
enEnglish
Grandfather clause
eoEsperanto
Ava klaŭzo
fiFinnish
Saavutettujen etuuksien säilyttämislauseke
frFrench
Clause d'antériorité
koKorean
할아버지 조항
ruRussian
Дедушкина оговорка
simpleSimple English
Grandfather clause
svSwedish
Övergångsbestämmelse
ukUkrainian
Дідове положення
zhChinese
祖父條款

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#34851
12.2024
Global:
#7294
10.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#3154
11.2024
Global:
#8668
05.2002

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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