Big Ben

Quality:

Big Ben - tower of the Palace of Westminster, London containing the bell Big Ben. This building is the 18^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 19^th most popular building in German Wikipedia. Article “Big Ben” in German Wikipedia has 49.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 22 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 2413^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 7548^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 19^th most popular in buildings in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2776^th most popular in all topics.

The 1877^th most popular in AI.

The 18^th most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 9451^st most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8755^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9180^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Big Ben”, its content was written by 311 registered users of German Wikipedia (7548^th place) and edited by 5191 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1877^th place).

Big Ben is on the 19^th place in local ranking of buildings in German Wikipedia and on the 18^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 125 times in German Wikipedia and cited 3856 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #506 in December 2010
• Global: #309 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #974 in September 2022
• Global: #1502 in June 2012

There are 53 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) Big Ben		99.0701
2	Spanish (es) Big Ben		97.506
3	Chinese (zh) 大本钟		95.0656
4	Persian (fa) ساعت بیگ بن		87.0647
5	Hindi (hi) बिग बेन		85.3149
6	Czech (cs) Big Ben		83.7644
7	Portuguese (pt) Big Ben		79.7188
8	Slovenian (sl) Big Ben		72.5366
9	Swedish (sv) Big Ben		70.8994
10	Malay (ms) Big Ben		58.7796

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Big Ben		23 070 591
2	German (de) Big Ben		5 052 103
3	Spanish (es) Big Ben		4 192 688
4	French (fr) Big Ben		4 164 447
5	Russian (ru) Биг-Бен		3 433 889
6	Italian (it) Big Ben		2 243 568
7	Japanese (ja) ビッグ・ベン		2 011 797
8	Polish (pl) Big Ben		1 684 858
9	Portuguese (pt) Big Ben		1 631 257
10	Dutch (nl) Big Ben		1 177 865

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) Big Ben		52 625
2	German (de) Big Ben		8 052
3	Japanese (ja) ビッグ・ベン		6 214
4	French (fr) Big Ben		6 122
5	Spanish (es) Big Ben		5 654
6	Russian (ru) Биг-Бен		4 737
7	Simple English (simple) Big Ben		3 396
8	Chinese (zh) 大本钟		2 505
9	Italian (it) Big Ben		2 435
10	Polish (pl) Big Ben		2 433

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Big Ben		1 527
2	French (fr) Big Ben		348
3	German (de) Big Ben		311
4	Italian (it) Big Ben		249
5	Spanish (es) Big Ben		215
6	Russian (ru) Биг-Бен		195
7	Dutch (nl) Big Ben		193
8	Greek (el) Μπιγκ Μπεν		163
9	Swedish (sv) Big Ben		146
10	Polish (pl) Big Ben		137

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) Big Ben		7
2	French (fr) Big Ben		2
3	Serbian (sr) Биг Бен		2
4	Swedish (sv) Big Ben		2
5	Chinese (zh) 大本钟		2
6	Arabic (ar) بيغ بن		1
7	Catalan (ca) Big Ben		1
8	Japanese (ja) ビッグ・ベン		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Big Ben		1
10	Russian (ru) Биг-Бен		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