The Independent

Quality:

The Independent - British national daily newspaper. This website is the 187^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 178^th most popular website in Catalan Wikipedia. Article “The Independent” in Catalan Wikipedia has 30.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.59 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Catalan) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Catalan Wikipedia:

The 178^th most popular in websites in Catalan Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 187^th most popular in websites.

In June 2026 the article “The Independent” was edited by 1 authors in Catalan Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Independent”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Catalan Wikipedia and edited by 1543 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Independent is on the 178^th place in local ranking of websites in Catalan Wikipedia and on the 187^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 1070 times in Catalan Wikipedia (2641^st place) and cited 97977 times in all languages (1456^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Catalan): #2103 in October 2021
• Global: #7825 in March 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Catalan): #8733 in July 2023
• Global: #20396 in May 2010

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) The Independent		79.0917
2	Estonian (et) The Independent		34.9775
3	Turkish (tr) The Independent		33.4404
4	Russian (ru) The Independent		30.87
5	Georgian (ka) The Independent		30.7783
6	Catalan (ca) The Independent		30.2852
7	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		29.6111
8	Hebrew (he) אינדפנדנט		28.9926
9	French (fr) The Independent		28.1503
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Independent		27.128

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Independent		7 945 593
2	German (de) The Independent		383 693
3	Russian (ru) The Independent		366 324
4	French (fr) The Independent		312 036
5	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		232 611
6	Spanish (es) The Independent		160 742
7	Italian (it) The Independent		137 774
8	Persian (fa) ایندیپندنت		107 033
9	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		101 291
10	Polish (pl) The Independent		95 428

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 Independent		23 653
2	Russian (ru) The Independent		739
3	German (de) The Independent		693
4	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		492
5	French (fr) The Independent		489
6	Persian (fa) ایندیپندنت		372
7	Chinese (zh) 獨立報 (英國)		371
8	Spanish (es) The Independent		218
9	Italian (it) The Independent		182
10	Turkish (tr) The Independent		178

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Independent		683
2	German (de) The Independent		103
3	French (fr) The Independent		76
4	Russian (ru) The Independent		62
5	Italian (it) The Independent		46
6	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		42
7	Dutch (nl) The Independent		39
8	Chinese (zh) 獨立報 (英國)		33
9	Finnish (fi) The Independent		30
10	Polish (pl) The Independent		29

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 Independent		4
2	Thai (th) ดิอินดีเพนเดนต์		2
3	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) The Independent		1
5	Catalan (ca) The Independent		1
6	Armenian (hy) The Independent		1
7	Russian (ru) The Independent		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Індепендент		1
9	Belarusian (be) The Independent		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Индипендънт		0

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