Torture

Quality:

Torture - intentional infliction of physical or mental suffering upon a person or an animal. Article “Torture” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7283^rd most popular in all topics.

The 2551^st most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Torture”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 4730 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2551^st place).

The article is cited 312 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 27482 times in all languages (6161^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #455 in April 2006
• Global: #395 in December 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1276 in January 2026
• Global: #1672 in March 2008

There are 51 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) Torture		100
2	Indonesian (id) Penyiksaan		100
3	Vietnamese (vi) Tra tấn		95.876
4	Chinese (zh) 酷刑		91.672
5	German (de) Folter		90.2308
6	Slovenian (sl) Mučenje		84.7298
7	French (fr) Torture		77.188
8	Catalan (ca) Tortura		57.3065
9	Spanish (es) Tortura		55.2438
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Tortur		50.5914

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Torture		12 511 806
2	German (de) Folter		4 310 115
3	Japanese (ja) 拷問		3 872 142
4	Spanish (es) Tortura		2 397 473
5	French (fr) Torture		2 269 565
6	Russian (ru) Пытка		1 610 934
7	Italian (it) Tortura		1 100 811
8	Portuguese (pt) Tortura		821 204
9	Polish (pl) Tortura		752 496
10	Dutch (nl) Marteling		597 740

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) Torture		31 433
2	Japanese (ja) 拷問		6 912
3	German (de) Folter		5 892
4	Persian (fa) شکنجه		5 457
5	Russian (ru) Пытка		4 343
6	French (fr) Torture		4 120
7	Spanish (es) Tortura		2 154
8	Chinese (zh) 酷刑		1 752
9	Italian (it) Tortura		1 690
10	Polish (pl) Tortura		1 298

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Torture		1 560
2	German (de) Folter		651
3	French (fr) Torture		348
4	Italian (it) Tortura		205
5	Spanish (es) Tortura		193
6	Dutch (nl) Marteling		168
7	Russian (ru) Пытка		155
8	Japanese (ja) 拷問		130
9	Hebrew (he) עינויים		119
10	Portuguese (pt) Tortura		109

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) Torture		2
2	Arabic (ar) تعذيب		1
3	Catalan (ca) Tortura		1
4	Czech (cs) Mučení		1
5	Basque (eu) Tortura		1
6	Finnish (fi) Kidutus		1
7	Hebrew (he) עינויים		1
8	Hindi (hi) यातना		1
9	Indonesian (id) Penyiksaan		1
10	Slovenian (sl) Mučenje		1

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