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Simon Leys

Quality:

Simon Leys - Belgian-Australian writer, sinologist and essayist. Article “Simon Leys” in German Wikipedia has 24.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.3 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Simon Leys”, its content was written by 80 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 522 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 25 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1156 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #1162 in August 2014
  • Global: #734 in August 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #35200 in August 2014
  • Global: #55898 in August 2014

There are 14 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, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1French (fr)
Simon Leys
85.7226
2English (en)
Simon Leys
52.2144
3Dutch (nl)
Pierre Ryckmans (schrijver)
35.7125
4Norwegian (no)
Pierre Ryckmans
29.3555
5German (de)
Simon Leys
24.6048
6Chinese (zh)
李克曼
23.7205
7Russian (ru)
Симон Лейс
16.755
8Catalan (ca)
Simon Leys
12.4295
9Spanish (es)
Simon Leys
10.2532
10Simple English (simple)
Pierre Ryckmans
9.9285
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Simon Leys" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1French (fr)
Simon Leys
371 349
2English (en)
Simon Leys
147 602
3Spanish (es)
Simon Leys
35 470
4Chinese (zh)
李克曼
26 113
5Dutch (nl)
Pierre Ryckmans (schrijver)
19 420
6German (de)
Simon Leys
17 294
7Italian (it)
Pierre Ryckmans
13 407
8Polish (pl)
Simon Leys
11 060
9Russian (ru)
Симон Лейс
7 271
10Persian (fa)
سیمون له
6 804
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Simon Leys" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1French (fr)
Simon Leys
1 981
2English (en)
Simon Leys
958
3Spanish (es)
Simon Leys
134
4Chinese (zh)
李克曼
131
5Dutch (nl)
Pierre Ryckmans (schrijver)
98
6Polish (pl)
Simon Leys
78
7Italian (it)
Pierre Ryckmans
48
8Persian (fa)
سیمون له
46
9Russian (ru)
Симон Лейс
41
10German (de)
Simon Leys
40
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Simon Leys" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
Simon Leys
155
2English (en)
Simon Leys
92
3German (de)
Simon Leys
80
4Dutch (nl)
Pierre Ryckmans (schrijver)
38
5Italian (it)
Pierre Ryckmans
31
6Norwegian (no)
Pierre Ryckmans
28
7Spanish (es)
Simon Leys
18
8Russian (ru)
Симон Лейс
17
9Polish (pl)
Simon Leys
16
10Chinese (zh)
李克曼
16
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Simon Leys" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Симон Лейс
1
2Catalan (ca)
Simon Leys
0
3German (de)
Simon Leys
0
4English (en)
Simon Leys
0
5Spanish (es)
Simon Leys
0
6Persian (fa)
سیمون له
0
7French (fr)
Simon Leys
0
8Italian (it)
Pierre Ryckmans
0
9Dutch (nl)
Pierre Ryckmans (schrijver)
0
10Norwegian (no)
Pierre Ryckmans
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Simon Leys" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Persian (fa)
سیمون له
546
2French (fr)
Simon Leys
288
3English (en)
Simon Leys
118
4Italian (it)
Pierre Ryckmans
53
5Dutch (nl)
Pierre Ryckmans (schrijver)
30
6German (de)
Simon Leys
25
7Norwegian (no)
Pierre Ryckmans
24
8Chinese (zh)
李克曼
18
9Spanish (es)
Simon Leys
16
10Russian (ru)
Симон Лейс
15
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Simon Leys
deGerman
Simon Leys
enEnglish
Simon Leys
esSpanish
Simon Leys
faPersian
سیمون له
frFrench
Simon Leys
itItalian
Pierre Ryckmans
nlDutch
Pierre Ryckmans (schrijver)
noNorwegian
Pierre Ryckmans
plPolish
Simon Leys
ruRussian
Симон Лейс
simpleSimple English
Pierre Ryckmans
svSwedish
Pierre Ryckmans
zhChinese
李克曼

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#35200
08.2014
Global:
#55898
08.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#1162
08.2014
Global:
#734
08.2014

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Simon Leys from Wikipedia articles about Wikipedia article, Roland Barthes, Kevin Rudd, The Chairmans New Clothes and Pierre Ryckmans. Whereas reading the article about Simon Leys people most often go to Wikipedia articles on The Chairmans New Clothes, , Chinese Shadows, Bernard Crick and Orwell or the Horror of Politics.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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