WikiMasters rarities, explained, and a checker for any article

What rarity is your article?

Type the title of a Wikipedia article: you get its Lexicodex card, its views a month, and the rarity WikiMasters' thresholds would give it.

The WikiMasters rarity is an estimate: we count views as a twelve-month median, WikiMasters by the month. An article close to a threshold may land on the other side there. English Wikipedia articles have no WikiMasters rarity: it only makes cards from French Wikipedia.

The six WikiMasters rarities

The more an article is read, the rarer its card. The tiers, from the top down:

In French, the codes stand for Commune, Peu commune (PC), Rare, Super rare, Ultra rare and Légendaire. The top of the ladder is narrow: 1,672 legendaries and 11,939 ultra rares out of 2,779,316 cards, nearly all of French Wikipedia. WikiMasters itself says rarity depends "mostly" on the article's popularity: an article close to a threshold may change tier from one month to the next.

WikiMasters drop rates

WikiMasters doesn't publish its drop rates. Its "Comment ça marche ?" window gives the thresholds and the pack rhythm (ten at most, one more every ten minutes, five cards sorted by rising rarity), not the odds of each rarity. What it does publish is the number of cards in each rarity:

A share of the catalog isn't a drop rate: it would only be one if every card were drawn at random from the whole game. The last column isn't one either, it's a single collection, trades and purchases included. Still, it suggests packs don't draw at random from the catalog: legendaries are three and a half times more common there, ultra rares nearly twice.

The rarest WikiMasters card

There isn't a single one: the 1,672 legendaries share the top rarity, that of articles read 20,000 times a month or more, and the game doesn't rank them. Napoléon Ier (Napoleon), the Eiffel Tower and La Joconde (Mona Lisa) are among them. Above an ordinary legendary, there is only its shiny copy.

To see whether an article is legendary, type it into the checker: it gives its views a month and the rarity WikiMasters' thresholds give it.

What a WikiMasters card is worth in Lexicodex

Lexicodex counts views too, with five rarities instead of six and higher thresholds: 25,000 views a month for a French mythic, where the WikiMasters legendary starts at 20,000. When you import, each card takes its Lexicodex rarity:

WikiMasters' rare cards nearly all make it; most of its commons have no card here. Each of those is worth a drop of ink, up to 1,000, paid after your first 100 packs: enough to craft the cards you're missing.

Lexicodex rarities, in English and French

Lexicodex takes the median of monthly views over twelve months: a month of news doesn't make a mythic, a page everyone reads all year round does. And unlike WikiMasters, it has English Wikipedia too, nearly 1.9 million cards with their own thresholds, since it's read about ten times more:

• Mythic: over 150,000 views a month, about 1,400 articles (Taylor Swift, Napoleon, Minecraft…)
• Epic: over 48,000, about 10,200 articles
• Rare: over 15,600, about 41,900 articles
• Uncommon: over 9,300, about 42,600 articles
• Common: every other article above 200 views a month, about 1.8 million of them

And for French Wikipedia, where WikiMasters cards come from:

• Mythic: over 25,000 views a month, about 740 articles (Napoleon, the Eiffel Tower, Kylian Mbappé…)
• Epic: over 8,400, about 5,100 articles
• Rare: over 2,700, about 21,000 articles
• Uncommon: over 1,600, about 21,500 articles
• Common: every other article above 30 views a month, more than 900,000 of them

Each copy also gets its own finish, drawn separately from its rarity: standard, reverse, holo, cosmos or prism, and sometimes neon, a black card where the picture's outlines light up as tubes. About one pack in four holds a special card; one in sixteen a holo, one in two hundred a prism.