Angela Merkel

Quality:

Angela Merkel - chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. This person is the 304^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 3^rd most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article "Angela Merkel" in German Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 402 references and 42 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 23^rd most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 5^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 3^rd most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 845^th most popular in all topics.

The 349^th most popular in AI.

The 304^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 96^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

de

The 604^th most editable in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1713^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2295^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Angela Merkel" was edited by 11 authors in German Wikipedia (604^th place) and written by 49 authors in all languages (2295^th place).

Since the creation of article "Angela Merkel", its content was written by 1819 registered users of German Wikipedia (5^th place) and edited by 8751 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (349^th place).

Angela Merkel is on the 3^rd place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 304^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 2726 times in German Wikipedia (3298^th place) and cited 20657 times in all languages (7684^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2 in November 2005
• Global: #13 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #7 in September 2017
• Global: #37 in September 2021

There are 55 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 August 1, 2024 (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	German (de) Angela Merkel		100
2	Norwegian (no) Angela Merkel		96.0068
3	French (fr) Angela Merkel		95.2838
4	English (en) Angela Merkel		94.6895
5	Hebrew (he) אנגלה מרקל		92.8374
6	Turkish (tr) Angela Merkel		91.3265
7	Arabic (ar) أنغيلا ميركل		90.4648
8	Portuguese (pt) Angela Merkel		87.384
9	Serbian (sr) Ангела Меркел		86.3158
10	Czech (cs) Angela Merkelová		85.3354

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Angela Merkel		28 427 208
2	German (de) Angela Merkel		24 869 744
3	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		7 234 597
4	French (fr) Angela Merkel		5 696 837
5	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		5 418 927
6	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		3 368 521
7	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		2 780 818
8	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		2 654 355
9	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		1 890 281
10	Portuguese (pt) Angela Merkel		1 646 614

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Angela Merkel		125 820
2	English (en) Angela Merkel		102 232
3	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		25 340
4	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		20 789
5	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		15 985
6	French (fr) Angela Merkel		12 848
7	Persian (fa) آنگلا مرکل		11 260
8	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		8 350
9	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		8 244
10	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		6 803

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Angela Merkel		1 819
2	English (en) Angela Merkel		1 738
3	French (fr) Angela Merkel		510
4	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		392
5	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		359
6	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		318
7	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		243
8	Dutch (nl) Angela Merkel		213
9	Japanese (ja) アンゲラ・メルケル		207
10	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		207

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	German (de) Angela Merkel		11
2	English (en) Angela Merkel		5
3	French (fr) Angela Merkel		5
4	Russian (ru) Меркель, Ангела		5
5	Italian (it) Angela Merkel		3
6	Serbian (sr) Ангела Меркел		3
7	Turkish (tr) Angela Merkel		3
8	Chinese (zh) 安格拉·默克爾		3
9	Spanish (es) Angela Merkel		2
10	Polish (pl) Angela Merkel		2

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from August, 2024. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from July 2024 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2023... More information