Prison

Quality:

Prison - place in which people are, for legal reasons, physically confined and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Article “Prison” in Simple English Wikipedia has 32.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in German 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 3258^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1828^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2394^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4844^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Prison”, its content was written by 62 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1828^th place) and edited by 4810 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2394^th place).

The article is cited 744 times in Simple English Wikipedia (1583^rd place) and cited 32716 times in all languages (5193^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #45 in February 2005
• Global: #1048 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #304 in June 2013
• Global: #2816 in December 2010

There are 53 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	German (de) Gefängnis		97.3333
2	English (en) Prison		88.5477
3	Chinese (zh) 監獄		84.3524
4	Dutch (nl) Gevangenis		70.1905
5	French (fr) Prison		56.8111
6	Armenian (hy) Բանտ		47.1869
7	Italian (it) Prigione		38.6033
8	Spanish (es) Prisión		37.8103
9	Latin (la) Carcer		37.0182
10	Japanese (ja) 刑務所		36.2532

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Prison		12 707 479
2	Spanish (es) Prisión		1 819 439
3	German (de) Gefängnis		1 812 995
4	Japanese (ja) 刑務所		1 735 186
5	Russian (ru) Тюрьма		1 558 433
6	French (fr) Prison		1 320 562
7	Italian (it) Prigione		886 149
8	Dutch (nl) Gevangenis		865 098
9	Polish (pl) Zakład karny		611 048
10	Finnish (fi) Vankila		437 347

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) Prison		20 888
2	Japanese (ja) 刑務所		5 338
3	Russian (ru) Тюрьма		2 895
4	German (de) Gefängnis		1 912
5	Persian (fa) زندان		1 877
6	Spanish (es) Prisión		1 833
7	French (fr) Prison		1 561
8	Italian (it) Prigione		1 331
9	Chinese (zh) 監獄		1 272
10	Polish (pl) Zakład karny		1 001

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Prison		1 726
2	German (de) Gefängnis		483
3	French (fr) Prison		349
4	Dutch (nl) Gevangenis		240
5	Italian (it) Prigione		203
6	Spanish (es) Prisión		164
7	Russian (ru) Тюрьма		164
8	Hebrew (he) בית סוהר		129
9	Japanese (ja) 刑務所		123
10	Finnish (fi) Vankila		96

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) Prison		3
2	Serbian (sr) Затвор		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Həbsxana		1
4	Spanish (es) Prisión		1
5	Basque (eu) Espetxe		1
6	Persian (fa) زندان		1
7	French (fr) Prison		1
8	Malay (ms) Penjara		1
9	Arabic (ar) سجن		0
10	Belarusian (be) Турма		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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information