1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre

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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre - Chinese pro-democracy movement and subsequent massacre. This event is the 19^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 26^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre” in English Wikipedia has 98.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 501 references and 56 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1126^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 490^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 26^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 621^st most popular in all topics.

The 890^th most popular in AI.

The 19^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 177^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 83^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1498^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 52 authors in all languages (1498^th place).

Since the creation of article “1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre”, its content was written by 2335 registered users of English Wikipedia (490^th place) and edited by 6650 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (890^th place).

1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre is on the 26^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 19^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 2937 times in English Wikipedia and cited 14735 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #57 in June 2021
• Global: #112 in June 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #34 in August 2015
• Global: #17 in June 2019

There are 50 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Spanish (es) Protestas de la plaza de Tiananmén de 1989		100
2	Thai (th) การประท้วงที่จัตุรัสเทียนอันเหมิน ค.ศ. 1989		100
3	English (en) 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre		98.4396
4	German (de) Tian’anmen-Massaker		94.2857
5	French (fr) Manifestations de la place Tian'anmen		92.3064
6	Vietnamese (vi) Sự kiện Thiên An Môn		90.8102
7	Norwegian (no) Demonstrasjonene på Den himmelske freds plass		87.5987
8	Italian (it) Protesta di piazza Tienanmen		86.1948
9	Chinese (zh) 六四事件		84.2248
10	Malay (ms) Bantahan Dataran Tiananmen 1989		77.4318

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Chinese (zh) 六四事件		41 695 000
2	English (en) 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre		41 587 502
3	Japanese (ja) 六四天安門事件		12 183 922
4	Russian (ru) События на площади Тяньаньмэнь (1989)		2 937 657
5	Vietnamese (vi) Sự kiện Thiên An Môn		2 796 939
6	German (de) Tian’anmen-Massaker		2 611 066
7	Spanish (es) Protestas de la plaza de Tiananmén de 1989		2 308 892
8	French (fr) Manifestations de la place Tian'anmen		2 105 848
9	Italian (it) Protesta di piazza Tienanmen		1 976 325
10	Portuguese (pt) Massacre da Praça da Paz Celestial em 1989		1 077 143

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) 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre		626 285
2	Chinese (zh) 六四事件		581 372
3	Japanese (ja) 六四天安門事件		142 391
4	Vietnamese (vi) Sự kiện Thiên An Môn		32 569
5	Russian (ru) События на площади Тяньаньмэнь (1989)		29 791
6	German (de) Tian’anmen-Massaker		19 159
7	Italian (it) Protesta di piazza Tienanmen		17 022
8	Spanish (es) Protestas de la plaza de Tiananmén de 1989		14 854
9	French (fr) Manifestations de la place Tian'anmen		13 715
10	Portuguese (pt) Massacre da Praça da Paz Celestial em 1989		11 834

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre		2 335
2	Chinese (zh) 六四事件		1 093
3	Japanese (ja) 六四天安門事件		337
4	French (fr) Manifestations de la place Tian'anmen		331
5	German (de) Tian’anmen-Massaker		306
6	Italian (it) Protesta di piazza Tienanmen		216
7	Russian (ru) События на площади Тяньаньмэнь (1989)		191
8	Vietnamese (vi) Sự kiện Thiên An Môn		173
9	Spanish (es) Protestas de la plaza de Tiananmén de 1989		149
10	Korean (ko) 1989년 천안문 사건		120

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	Chinese (zh) 六四事件		11
2	English (en) 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre		7
3	Italian (it) Protesta di piazza Tienanmen		6
4	Japanese (ja) 六四天安門事件		5
5	German (de) Tian’anmen-Massaker		3
6	Simple English (simple) 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre		3
7	French (fr) Manifestations de la place Tian'anmen		2
8	Hungarian (hu) Tienanmen téri vérengzés		2
9	Indonesian (id) Tragedi Tiananmen 1989		2
10	Portuguese (pt) Massacre da Praça da Paz Celestial em 1989		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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