Purge

Purge - forceful removal of people considered undesirable. Article “Purge” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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 “Purge”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 703 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4457 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #11033 in November 2021
• Global: #10490 in July 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #18675 in October 2021
• Global: #10811 in December 2013

There are 27 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	English (en) Purge		57.426
2	Korean (ko) 숙청		42.8429
3	German (de) Politische Säuberung		39.9597
4	Romanian (ro) Epurare		32.0056
5	Catalan (ca) Purga política		28.4241
6	Spanish (es) Purga política		27.9726
7	Turkish (tr) Tasfiye		26.0345
8	Ukrainian (uk) Чистка (політика)		25.054
9	Finnish (fi) Puhdistus (politiikka)		23.6893
10	Greek (el) Διωγμός		19.1328

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Purge" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Purge		3 030 106
2	Japanese (ja) 粛清		1 865 970
3	Spanish (es) Purga política		437 082
4	Portuguese (pt) Expurgo		426 977
5	Czech (cs) Čistka		243 444
6	German (de) Politische Säuberung		165 265
7	Chinese (zh) 肅清		151 406
8	Polish (pl) Czystka		114 241
9	French (fr) Épuration (politique)		83 666
10	Korean (ko) 숙청		65 527

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Purge" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Purge		5 013
2	Japanese (ja) 粛清		3 852
3	Chinese (zh) 肅清		809
4	German (de) Politische Säuberung		426
5	Spanish (es) Purga política		333
6	Portuguese (pt) Expurgo		325
7	Turkish (tr) Tasfiye		171
8	French (fr) Épuration (politique)		164
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thanh trừng		137
10	Polish (pl) Czystka		134

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

Language versions of the article "Purge" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Purge		241
2	German (de) Politische Säuberung		99
3	Japanese (ja) 粛清		89
4	Spanish (es) Purga política		46
5	French (fr) Épuration (politique)		40
6	Chinese (zh) 肅清		27
7	Korean (ko) 숙청		19
8	Portuguese (pt) Expurgo		18
9	Polish (pl) Czystka		17
10	Serbian (sr) Чистка		16

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

Language versions of the article "Purge" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Purge		4
2	Galician (gl) Purga		1
3	Hebrew (he) טיהור פוליטי		1
4	Romanian (ro) Epurare		1
5	Chinese (zh) 肅清		1
6	Arabic (ar) تطهير (جريمة)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Purga política		0
8	Czech (cs) Čistka		0
9	German (de) Politische Säuberung		0
10	Greek (el) Διωγμός		0

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

Language versions of the article "Purge" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Purge		1 043
2	Japanese (ja) 粛清		601
3	Chinese (zh) 肅清		365
4	Arabic (ar) تطهير (جريمة)		363
5	Portuguese (pt) Expurgo		300
6	French (fr) Épuration (politique)		282
7	Persian (fa) پاکسازی (سیاسی)		243
8	German (de) Politische Säuberung		208
9	Korean (ko) 숙청		161
10	Spanish (es) Purga política		140

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تطهير (جريمة)
ca	Catalan Purga política
cs	Czech Čistka
de	German Politische Säuberung
el	Greek Διωγμός
en	English Purge
es	Spanish Purga política
fa	Persian پاکسازی (سیاسی)
fi	Finnish Puhdistus (politiikka)
fr	French Épuration (politique)
gl	Galician Purga
he	Hebrew טיהור פוליטי
hr	Croatian Čistka
id	Indonesian Pembersihan (politik)
ja	Japanese 粛清
ko	Korean 숙청
pl	Polish Czystka
pt	Portuguese Expurgo
ro	Romanian Epurare
sh	Serbo-Croatian Čistka
simple	Simple English Purge
sl	Slovenian Čistka
sr	Serbian Чистка
tr	Turkish Tasfiye
uk	Ukrainian Чистка (політика)
vi	Vietnamese Thanh trừng
zh	Chinese 肅清

Best Rank

Simple English: #18675 10.2021

Global: #10811 12.2013

Best Rank

Simple English: #11033 11.2021

Global: #10490 07.2016

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