Ahmad Shah Massoud

Quality:

Ahmad Shah Massoud - Afghan military leader (1953–2001). This person is the 5413^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ahmad Shah Massoud” in English Wikipedia has 88.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 284 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.83 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9537^th most popular in AI.

The 5413^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7709^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Ahmad Shah Massoud” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 23 authors in all languages (7709^th place).

Since the creation of article “Ahmad Shah Massoud”, its content was written by 737 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2627 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9537^th place).

Ahmad Shah Massoud is on the 5413^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 318 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2669 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #67 in May 2002
• Global: #145 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #108 in August 2021
• Global: #34 in August 2021

There are 48 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	Ukrainian (uk) Ахмад Шах Масуд		90
2	English (en) Ahmad Shah Massoud		88.469
3	German (de) Ahmad Schah Massoud		74.0571
4	Romanian (ro) Ahmad Șah Massoud		72.7137
5	French (fr) Ahmed Chah Massoud		60.5654
6	Hebrew (he) אחמד שאה מסעוד		58.4137
7	Persian (fa) احمد شاه مسعود		51.7977
8	Malay (ms) Ahmed Shah Massoud		45.4634
9	Korean (ko) 아흐마드 샤 마스우드		45.4276
10	Chinese (zh) 艾哈迈德·沙阿·马苏德		39.8116

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ahmad Shah Massoud		6 889 070
2	French (fr) Ahmed Chah Massoud		2 540 007
3	Russian (ru) Ахмад Шах Масуд		1 937 913
4	Persian (fa) احمد شاه مسعود		1 932 594
5	German (de) Ahmad Schah Massoud		921 647
6	Arabic (ar) أحمد شاه مسعود		648 067
7	Italian (it) Aḥmad Shāh Masʿūd		460 940
8	Japanese (ja) アフマド・シャー・マスード		418 400
9	Spanish (es) Ahmad Shah Masud		376 526
10	Polish (pl) Ahmad Szah Masud		256 830

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) Ahmad Shah Massoud		19 720
2	Persian (fa) احمد شاه مسعود		6 258
3	Russian (ru) Ахмад Шах Масуд		4 895
4	French (fr) Ahmed Chah Massoud		4 784
5	German (de) Ahmad Schah Massoud		1 861
6	Italian (it) Aḥmad Shāh Masʿūd		1 078
7	Spanish (es) Ahmad Shah Masud		854
8	Japanese (ja) アフマド・シャー・マスード		826
9	Turkish (tr) Ahmed Şah Mesud		796
10	Polish (pl) Ahmad Szah Masud		504

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ahmad Shah Massoud		737
2	French (fr) Ahmed Chah Massoud		287
3	German (de) Ahmad Schah Massoud		245
4	Russian (ru) Ахмад Шах Масуд		148
5	Persian (fa) احمد شاه مسعود		143
6	Italian (it) Aḥmad Shāh Masʿūd		127
7	Dutch (nl) Achmed Sjah Massoed		90
8	Japanese (ja) アフマド・シャー・マスード		65
9	Spanish (es) Ahmad Shah Masud		56
10	Arabic (ar) أحمد شاه مسعود		51

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	Arabic (ar) أحمد شاه مسعود		3
2	German (de) Ahmad Schah Massoud		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Əhməd Şah Məsud		2
4	Catalan (ca) Ahmad Shah Massud		2
5	Persian (fa) احمد شاه مسعود		2
6	French (fr) Ahmed Chah Massoud		2
7	Czech (cs) Ahmad Šáh Masúd		1
8	Danish (da) Ahmad Shah Massoud		1
9	English (en) Ahmad Shah Massoud		1
10	Basque (eu) Ahmad Shah Massoud		1

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

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