Penal colony

Quality:

Penal colony - remote settlement used to house convicts from the general population. Article “Penal colony” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Penal colony”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 808 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 45 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1984 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #913 in May 2024
• Global: #2818 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1454 in June 2013
• Global: #29949 in November 2022

There are 25 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	English (en) Penal colony		41.7062
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kažnjenička kolonija		28.2705
3	French (fr) Colonie pénale		24.6038
4	Hebrew (he) מושבת עונשין		23.9246
5	Portuguese (pt) Colônia penal		22.2208
6	German (de) Strafkolonie		20.953
7	Russian (ru) Ссылка в колонии		18.1392
8	Italian (it) Colonia penale		17.3224
9	Simple English (simple) Penal colony		15.4152
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thuộc địa lưu đày		14.8456

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Penal colony		2 670 558
2	German (de) Strafkolonie		295 243
3	Italian (it) Colonia penale		226 159
4	Polish (pl) Kolonia karna		215 576
5	Spanish (es) Colonia penal		102 008
6	Dutch (nl) Strafkolonie		90 167
7	Portuguese (pt) Colônia penal		46 563
8	Hebrew (he) מושבת עונשין		45 918
9	French (fr) Colonie pénale		45 626
10	Simple English (simple) Penal colony		36 016

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) Penal colony		11 160
2	Simple English (simple) Penal colony		934
3	German (de) Strafkolonie		847
4	Italian (it) Colonia penale		819
5	Polish (pl) Kolonia karna		516
6	French (fr) Colonie pénale		467
7	Spanish (es) Colonia penal		246
8	Chinese (zh) 流放地		231
9	Portuguese (pt) Colônia penal		165
10	Hebrew (he) מושבת עונשין		155

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Penal colony		338
2	German (de) Strafkolonie		94
3	French (fr) Colonie pénale		79
4	Italian (it) Colonia penale		66
5	Dutch (nl) Strafkolonie		43
6	Hebrew (he) מושבת עונשין		36
7	Polish (pl) Kolonia karna		23
8	Danish (da) Straffekoloni		22
9	Simple English (simple) Penal colony		14
10	Spanish (es) Colonia penal		12

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) Penal colony		1
2	French (fr) Colonie pénale		1
3	Italian (it) Colonia penale		1
4	Arabic (ar) مستعمرة عقابية		0
5	Catalan (ca) Colònia penal		0
6	Danish (da) Straffekoloni		0
7	German (de) Strafkolonie		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Prizonkolonio		0
9	Spanish (es) Colonia penal		0
10	Persian (fa) مستعمره کیفری		0

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

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