Inquisition

Quality:

Inquisition - religious procedure in the ancient régime to persecute those not aligned with Catholic teachings of the Catholic Church. Article “Inquisition” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3700^th most popular in all topics.

The 2514^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Inquisition”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 4746 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2514^th place).

The article is cited 56 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 20797 times in all languages (8283^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #687 in May 2010
• Global: #480 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1584 in January 2026
• Global: #2348 in November 2014

There are 51 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	English (en) Inquisition		97.5422
2	German (de) Inquisition		92.5791
3	Polish (pl) Inkwizycja		91.8376
4	Portuguese (pt) Inquisição		81.8599
5	Hungarian (hu) Inkvizíció		76.8961
6	French (fr) Inquisition		75.1882
7	Spanish (es) Inquisición		71.5387
8	Catalan (ca) Inquisició		60.7653
9	Czech (cs) Inkvizice		60.4642
10	Indonesian (id) Inkuisisi		56.4033

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Inquisición		12 711 855
2	English (en) Inquisition		8 287 293
3	Russian (ru) Святая инквизиция		4 661 050
4	German (de) Inquisition		3 940 181
5	Portuguese (pt) Inquisição		3 738 911
6	French (fr) Inquisition		3 363 208
7	Italian (it) Inquisizione		2 398 903
8	Polish (pl) Inkwizycja		2 350 110
9	Japanese (ja) 異端審問		880 460
10	Dutch (nl) Inquisitie		722 380

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) Inquisition		15 816
2	Spanish (es) Inquisición		8 158
3	Russian (ru) Святая инквизиция		6 245
4	French (fr) Inquisition		5 919
5	German (de) Inquisition		5 680
6	Portuguese (pt) Inquisição		3 532
7	Italian (it) Inquisizione		2 639
8	Japanese (ja) 異端審問		2 470
9	Polish (pl) Inkwizycja		2 227
10	Chinese (zh) 宗教裁判所		1 315

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Inquisition		793
2	German (de) Inquisition		505
3	Spanish (es) Inquisición		416
4	French (fr) Inquisition		376
5	Italian (it) Inquisizione		286
6	Polish (pl) Inkwizycja		235
7	Portuguese (pt) Inquisição		233
8	Russian (ru) Святая инквизиция		229
9	Dutch (nl) Inquisitie		145
10	Hungarian (hu) Inkvizíció		124

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) Inquisition		4
2	Catalan (ca) Inquisició		2
3	Hungarian (hu) Inkvizíció		2
4	Russian (ru) Святая инквизиция		2
5	Arabic (ar) محاكم التفتيش		1
6	Estonian (et) Inkvisitsioon		1
7	Basque (eu) Inkisizioa		1
8	French (fr) Inquisition		1
9	Italian (it) Inquisizione		1
10	Georgian (ka) ინკვიზიცია		1

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

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