Illegal drugs

Quality:

Illegal drug - psychoactive drug whose possession, use or trade is outlawed. Article "Illegal drugs" in Simple English Wikipedia has 32.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 3 references and 15 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Chinese.

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 259th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 177th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 2834th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Illegal drugs", its content was written by 161 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (177th place) and edited by 838 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 196 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2806 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1 in May 2013
  • Global: #11522 in November 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #15 in November 2010
  • Global: #32326 in November 2013

There are 7 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 August 1, 2024 (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
1Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Narkotika
72.0236
2Chinese (zh)
毒品
51.9174
3Norwegian (no)
Narkotika
51.106
4French (fr)
Stupéfiant
33.6174
5Simple English (simple)
Illegal drugs
32.701
6Swedish (sv)
Narkotika
24.9396
7Portuguese (pt)
Droga ilícita (Brasil)
21.1743
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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 "Illegal drugs" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Chinese (zh)
毒品
1 502 472
2Swedish (sv)
Narkotika
806 154
3Portuguese (pt)
Droga ilícita (Brasil)
802 212
4Simple English (simple)
Illegal drugs
772 410
5French (fr)
Stupéfiant
708 304
6Norwegian (no)
Narkotika
358 382
7Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Narkotika
121 910
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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 July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Illegal drugs" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Chinese (zh)
毒品
6 501
2French (fr)
Stupéfiant
1 593
3Simple English (simple)
Illegal drugs
1 134
4Swedish (sv)
Narkotika
900
5Portuguese (pt)
Droga ilícita (Brasil)
677
6Norwegian (no)
Narkotika
463
7Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Narkotika
38
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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 "Illegal drugs" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Chinese (zh)
毒品
228
2Simple English (simple)
Illegal drugs
161
3Swedish (sv)
Narkotika
150
4Norwegian (no)
Narkotika
106
5French (fr)
Stupéfiant
88
6Portuguese (pt)
Droga ilícita (Brasil)
81
7Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Narkotika
24
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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 July 2024

Language versions of the article "Illegal drugs" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Norwegian (no)
Narkotika
1
2Chinese (zh)
毒品
1
3French (fr)
Stupéfiant
0
4Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Narkotika
0
5Portuguese (pt)
Droga ilícita (Brasil)
0
6Simple English (simple)
Illegal drugs
0
7Swedish (sv)
Narkotika
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 "Illegal drugs" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Chinese (zh)
毒品
857
2Swedish (sv)
Narkotika
763
3Norwegian (no)
Narkotika
441
4French (fr)
Stupéfiant
426
5Simple English (simple)
Illegal drugs
196
6Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Narkotika
86
7Portuguese (pt)
Droga ilícita (Brasil)
37
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in July 2024:
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Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
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Authors in July 2024:
Simple English:
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Registered authors in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
frFrench
Stupéfiant
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Narkotika
noNorwegian
Narkotika
ptPortuguese
Droga ilícita (Brasil)
simpleSimple English
Illegal drugs
svSwedish
Narkotika
zhChinese
毒品

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#15
11.2010
Global:
#32326
11.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1
05.2013
Global:
#11522
11.2019

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Illegal drug from Wikipedia articles about Drug, Cocaine, D-methamphetamine, Cannabis and Fentanyl. Whereas reading the article about Illegal drug people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Heroin, Cocaine, Cannabis, D-methamphetamine and Morphine.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

zh: 毒品

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About WikiRank

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from August, 2024. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from July 2024 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2023... More information