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Oral history

Quality:

Oral history - historical discipline of the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. Article “Oral history” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in Estonian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Oral history”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 884 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3610 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #135 in December 2004
  • Global: #2897 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #6662 in August 2010
  • Global: #69482 in February 2011

There are 32 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Estonian (et)
Suuline ajalugu
90.6206
2English (en)
Oral history
64.6125
3Armenian (hy)
Բանավոր պատմություն
58.2585
4Portuguese (pt)
História oral
48.8869
5Chinese (zh)
口述歷史
41.9523
6Italian (it)
Storia orale
40.7919
7French (fr)
Histoire orale
40.6349
8Czech (cs)
Orální historie
38.4113
9German (de)
Oral History
36.2356
10Hungarian (hu)
Oral history
36.2249
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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 "Oral history" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Oral history
1 604 394
2Spanish (es)
Historia oral
592 320
3Portuguese (pt)
História oral
406 678
4German (de)
Oral History
237 021
5Japanese (ja)
オーラル・ヒストリー
196 334
6Turkish (tr)
Sözlü tarih
179 097
7Chinese (zh)
口述歷史
99 994
8Russian (ru)
Устная история
62 068
9Czech (cs)
Orální historie
60 945
10Indonesian (id)
Sejarah lisan
55 116
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Oral history" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Oral history
2 358
2Japanese (ja)
オーラル・ヒストリー
1 541
3German (de)
Oral History
650
4Chinese (zh)
口述歷史
323
5Russian (ru)
Устная история
205
6Portuguese (pt)
História oral
171
7Spanish (es)
Historia oral
158
8Czech (cs)
Orální historie
145
9Persian (fa)
تاریخ شفاهی
122
10French (fr)
Histoire orale
95
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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 "Oral history" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Oral history
325
2German (de)
Oral History
95
3Dutch (nl)
Mondelinge geschiedenis
56
4Spanish (es)
Historia oral
52
5Portuguese (pt)
História oral
46
6French (fr)
Histoire orale
30
7Russian (ru)
Устная история
30
8Turkish (tr)
Sözlü tarih
28
9Chinese (zh)
口述歷史
24
10Japanese (ja)
オーラル・ヒストリー
20
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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 2026

Language versions of the article "Oral history" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
تاريخ شفوي
1
2English (en)
Oral history
1
3Basque (eu)
Ahozko historia
1
4Persian (fa)
تاریخ شفاهی
1
5Italian (it)
Storia orale
1
6Catalan (ca)
Història oral
0
7Czech (cs)
Orální historie
0
8German (de)
Oral History
0
9Esperanto (eo)
Parola historio
0
10Spanish (es)
Historia oral
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 "Oral history" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Oral history
1 520
2German (de)
Oral History
348
3Portuguese (pt)
História oral
217
4Chinese (zh)
口述歷史
155
5Japanese (ja)
オーラル・ヒストリー
154
6Dutch (nl)
Mondelinge geschiedenis
143
7Spanish (es)
Historia oral
139
8French (fr)
Histoire orale
134
9Polish (pl)
Historia mówiona
128
10Persian (fa)
تاریخ شفاهی
96
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تاريخ شفوي
caCatalan
Història oral
csCzech
Orální historie
deGerman
Oral History
enEnglish
Oral history
eoEsperanto
Parola historio
esSpanish
Historia oral
etEstonian
Suuline ajalugu
euBasque
Ahozko historia
faPersian
تاریخ شفاهی
fiFinnish
Muistitieto
frFrench
Histoire orale
heHebrew
היסטוריה שבעל-פה
hiHindi
मौखिक इतिहास
huHungarian
Oral history
hyArmenian
Բանավոր պատմություն
idIndonesian
Sejarah lisan
itItalian
Storia orale
jaJapanese
オーラル・ヒストリー
koKorean
구술 역사
nlDutch
Mondelinge geschiedenis
plPolish
Historia mówiona
ptPortuguese
História oral
roRomanian
Istorie orală
ruRussian
Устная история
simpleSimple English
Oral history
slSlovenian
Ustni zgodovinski viri
taTamil
வாய்மொழி வரலாறு
thThai
ประวัติศาสตร์มุขปาฐะ
trTurkish
Sözlü tarih
ukUkrainian
Усна історія
zhChinese
口述歷史

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#6662
08.2010
Global:
#69482
02.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#135
12.2004
Global:
#2897
11.2002

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Oral history from Wikipedia articles about Kōtarō Uegaki, Oral tradition, Lutz Niethammer, History and Takashi Mikuriya. Whereas reading the article about Oral history people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Oral tradition, Joe Gould, Takashi Mikuriya, Interview and Alessandro Portelli.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

simple: Oral history

News from 1 July 2026

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