Josef Fritzl

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Josef Fritzl

Quality:

Josef Fritzl - Austrian kidnapper and rapist. This person is the 55th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Josef Fritzl” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 553rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 8280th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 187th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Josef Fritzl”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8280th place) and edited by 547 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Josef Fritzl is on the 55th place in local ranking of people on Simple English Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 79 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #27 in December 2016
  • Global: #4410 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #10 in October 2024
  • Global: #5808 in January 2024

There are 6 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)
Josef Fritzl
62.1285
2Estonian (et)
Josef Fritzl
21.7205
3Turkish (tr)
Josef Fritzl
15.4604
4Portuguese (pt)
Josef Fritzl
14.4735
5Simple English (simple)
Josef Fritzl
11.6893
6Slovak (sk)
Josef Fritzl
1.4158
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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 "Josef Fritzl" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1German (de)
Josef Fritzl
5 777 278
2Simple English (simple)
Josef Fritzl
467 791
3Portuguese (pt)
Josef Fritzl
375 261
4Turkish (tr)
Josef Fritzl
295 526
5Slovak (sk)
Josef Fritzl
9 909
6Estonian (et)
Josef Fritzl
2 704
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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 "Josef Fritzl" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1German (de)
Josef Fritzl
44 909
2Simple English (simple)
Josef Fritzl
7 034
3Turkish (tr)
Josef Fritzl
4 620
4Portuguese (pt)
Josef Fritzl
3 827
5Slovak (sk)
Josef Fritzl
1 386
6Estonian (et)
Josef Fritzl
53
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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 "Josef Fritzl" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Josef Fritzl
475
2Simple English (simple)
Josef Fritzl
27
3Portuguese (pt)
Josef Fritzl
25
4Turkish (tr)
Josef Fritzl
15
5Slovak (sk)
Josef Fritzl
3
6Estonian (et)
Josef Fritzl
2
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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 "Josef Fritzl" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Josef Fritzl
1
2Estonian (et)
Josef Fritzl
0
3Portuguese (pt)
Josef Fritzl
0
4Simple English (simple)
Josef Fritzl
0
5Slovak (sk)
Josef Fritzl
0
6Turkish (tr)
Josef Fritzl
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 "Josef Fritzl" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1German (de)
Josef Fritzl
65
2Portuguese (pt)
Josef Fritzl
6
3Estonian (et)
Josef Fritzl
3
4Simple English (simple)
Josef Fritzl
3
5Turkish (tr)
Josef Fritzl
2
6Slovak (sk)
Josef Fritzl
0
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Josef Fritzl
etEstonian
Josef Fritzl
ptPortuguese
Josef Fritzl
simpleSimple English
Josef Fritzl
skSlovak
Josef Fritzl
trTurkish
Josef Fritzl

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#10
10.2024
Global:
#5808
01.2024

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#27
12.2016
Global:
#4410
05.2008

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Josef Fritzl from Wikipedia articles about Girl in the Basement, Elisabeth Fritzl, Hybristophilia, Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard and Fritzl case. Whereas reading the article about Josef Fritzl people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, Elisabeth Fritzl, Marc Dutroux, Natascha Kampusch and Amstetten.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

simple: Josef Fritzl

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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 July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information