Otaku

Quality:

Otaku - Japanese term (sometimes pejorative) for fans that pass a large part of their time and resources in a hobby they are passionate about and that directs their life at home, such as animes, mangas, video games and elements of modern Japanese culture. Article “Otaku” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3149^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 8557^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8021^st most popular in all topics.

The 4477^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2531^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Otaku”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8557^th place) and edited by 3729 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4477^th place).

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7074 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #626 in November 2009
• Global: #429 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #680 in July 2012
• Global: #2393 in June 2008

There are 41 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 御宅族		73.9708
2	English (en) Otaku		72.5997
3	Spanish (es) Otaku		57.8451
4	Portuguese (pt) Otaku		52.4324
5	Persian (fa) اوتاکو		49.3793
6	Vietnamese (vi) Otaku		49.3581
7	Hindi (hi) ओटाकु		44.5496
8	Italian (it) Otaku		43.9733
9	Japanese (ja) おたく		37.466
10	Estonian (et) Otaku		36.4307

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Otaku		10 274 640
2	Spanish (es) Otaku		5 243 833
3	Japanese (ja) おたく		3 712 970
4	Russian (ru) Отаку		2 054 541
5	Portuguese (pt) Otaku		1 430 364
6	French (fr) Otaku		1 402 650
7	Chinese (zh) 御宅族		1 164 206
8	German (de) Otaku		1 148 387
9	Italian (it) Otaku		859 121
10	Indonesian (id) Otaku		535 535

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) Otaku		24 597
2	Japanese (ja) おたく		5 909
3	Spanish (es) Otaku		5 032
4	Russian (ru) Отаку		4 166
5	Chinese (zh) 御宅族		2 605
6	French (fr) Otaku		2 518
7	Simple English (simple) Otaku		1 721
8	Korean (ko) 오타쿠		1 656
9	Italian (it) Otaku		1 604
10	German (de) Otaku		1 368

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Otaku		768
2	Japanese (ja) おたく		537
3	Spanish (es) Otaku		507
4	Portuguese (pt) Otaku		180
5	Chinese (zh) 御宅族		175
6	Italian (it) Otaku		169
7	French (fr) Otaku		159
8	Korean (ko) 오타쿠		151
9	Russian (ru) Отаку		131
10	German (de) Otaku		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	Japanese (ja) おたく		9
2	Korean (ko) 오타쿠		3
3	Persian (fa) اوتاکو		2
4	Arabic (ar) أوتاكو		1
5	German (de) Otaku		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Отаку		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Otaku		0
8	Catalan (ca) Otaku		0
9	Czech (cs) Otaku		0
10	Danish (da) Otaku		0

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

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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