Violence

Quality:

Violence - destructive action characterized by lack of empathy and involving communication, manipulation, coercion and/or punishment. Article “Violence” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 6 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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3879^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2400^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6579^th most popular in all topics.

The 3910^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Violence”, its content was written by 54 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2400^th place) and edited by 4022 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3910^th place).

The article is cited 387 times in Simple English Wikipedia (7188^th place) and cited 18223 times in all languages (9540^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #159 in April 2025
• Global: #860 in October 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #333 in December 2016
• Global: #599 in December 2014

There are 54 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) Violence		97.7362
2	German (de) Gewalt		82.9554
3	Uzbek (uz) Zoʻravonlik		79.6152
4	Slovenian (sl) Nasilje		76.0757
5	Basque (eu) Indarkeria		75.3133
6	Swedish (sv) Våld		72.8702
7	Russian (ru) Насилие		65.2499
8	Portuguese (pt) Violência		64.472
9	Finnish (fi) Väkivalta		58.8066
10	Catalan (ca) Violència		57.395

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Violencia		11 938 961
2	English (en) Violence		6 291 095
3	Portuguese (pt) Violência		4 211 620
4	French (fr) Violence		2 604 780
5	German (de) Gewalt		1 803 203
6	Arabic (ar) عنف		1 430 796
7	Russian (ru) Насилие		1 208 823
8	Polish (pl) Przemoc		800 059
9	Japanese (ja) 暴力		743 605
10	Hebrew (he) אלימות		580 713

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) Violence		8 176
2	Spanish (es) Violencia		5 631
3	Russian (ru) Насилие		2 482
4	Japanese (ja) 暴力		1 943
5	German (de) Gewalt		1 773
6	French (fr) Violence		1 445
7	Portuguese (pt) Violência		834
8	Persian (fa) خشونت		796
9	Italian (it) Violenza		658
10	Polish (pl) Przemoc		577

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Violence		926
2	German (de) Gewalt		461
3	Spanish (es) Violencia		361
4	French (fr) Violence		311
5	Hebrew (he) אלימות		203
6	Portuguese (pt) Violência		188
7	Italian (it) Violenza		129
8	Japanese (ja) 暴力		95
9	Dutch (nl) Geweld		93
10	Russian (ru) Насилие		81

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) Violence		5
2	Azerbaijani (az) Şiddət		1
3	Czech (cs) Násilí		1
4	Spanish (es) Violencia		1
5	Basque (eu) Indarkeria		1
6	French (fr) Violence		1
7	Galician (gl) Violencia		1
8	Japanese (ja) 暴力		1
9	Polish (pl) Przemoc		1
10	Romanian (ro) Violență		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