The Nightwatch

Quality:

The Night Watch - 1642 painting by Rembrandt. This painting is the 18^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of paintings and the 52^nd most popular painting in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Nightwatch” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 52^nd most popular in paintings in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 18^th most popular in paintings.

Since the creation of article “The Nightwatch”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1682 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Night Watch is on the 52^nd place in local ranking of paintings in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 18^th place in global ranking of paintings in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1827 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #503 in May 2014
• Global: #2010 in February 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #19135 in June 2023
• Global: #6372 in July 2013

There are 45 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	Dutch (nl) De Nachtwacht		100
2	German (de) Die Nachtwache		97.9234
3	French (fr) La Ronde de nuit		92.7986
4	English (en) The Night Watch		58.8332
5	Slovenian (sl) Nočna straža		54.3839
6	Polish (pl) Kompania Fransa Banninga Cocqa i Willema van Ruytenburcha		53.2709
7	Ukrainian (uk) Нічна варта (картина)		46.7016
8	Portuguese (pt) A Ronda Noturna		46.3524
9	Spanish (es) La ronda de noche		43.2663
10	Russian (ru) Ночной дозор (картина)		41.6084

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Night Watch		4 655 788
2	Dutch (nl) De Nachtwacht		2 122 328
3	German (de) Die Nachtwache		1 186 718
4	Spanish (es) La ronda de noche		1 095 465
5	Russian (ru) Ночной дозор (картина)		805 870
6	French (fr) La Ronde de nuit		781 404
7	Japanese (ja) 夜警 (絵画)		752 474
8	Italian (it) Ronda di notte		414 308
9	Chinese (zh) 夜巡		298 260
10	Portuguese (pt) A Ronda Noturna		229 289

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) The Night Watch		19 200
2	German (de) Die Nachtwache		5 195
3	Japanese (ja) 夜警 (絵画)		5 113
4	French (fr) La Ronde de nuit		4 515
5	Spanish (es) La ronda de noche		4 358
6	Dutch (nl) De Nachtwacht		4 358
7	Russian (ru) Ночной дозор (картина)		3 785
8	Chinese (zh) 夜巡		2 337
9	Korean (ko) 야경 (렘브란트)		1 582
10	Italian (it) Ronda di notte		1 477

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Night Watch		302
2	Dutch (nl) De Nachtwacht		298
3	German (de) Die Nachtwache		173
4	French (fr) La Ronde de nuit		132
5	Russian (ru) Ночной дозор (картина)		87
6	Italian (it) Ronda di notte		69
7	Spanish (es) La ronda de noche		48
8	Norwegian (no) «Nattevakten» (Rembrandt)		42
9	Polish (pl) Kompania Fransa Banninga Cocqa i Willema van Ruytenburcha		41
10	Czech (cs) Noční hlídka (obraz)		34

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) The Night Watch		4
2	Bulgarian (bg) Нощна стража		1
3	German (de) Die Nachtwache		1
4	Arabic (ar) دورية الليل		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Gecə gözətçisi		0
6	Belarusian (be) Начны дазор (карціна)		0
7	Catalan (ca) La ronda de nit		0
8	Czech (cs) Noční hlídka (obraz)		0
9	Danish (da) Nattevagten (maleri)		0
10	Greek (el) Νυχτερινή περίπολος		0

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

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