Alan Paton

Quality:

Alan Paton - South African writer and activist (1903-1988). Article “Alan Paton” in English Wikipedia has 44.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 24 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.35 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Alan Paton”, its content was written by 192 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 496 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 193 times in English Wikipedia and cited 872 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3449 in January 2018
• Global: #3463 in January 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5146 in January 2018
• Global: #4211 in January 2018

There are 29 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	Hungarian (hu) Alan Paton		44.7491
2	English (en) Alan Paton		44.5832
3	Catalan (ca) Alan Paton		38.4212
4	Tamil (ta) ஆலன் பாட்டன்		37.6788
5	German (de) Alan Paton		31.7208
6	Armenian (hy) Ալան Փեյտոն		29.0464
7	Arabic (ar) آلان باتون		28.381
8	Romanian (ro) Alan Paton		26.4926
9	Norwegian (no) Alan Paton		25.6698
10	Spanish (es) Alan Paton		24.2629

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alan Paton		899 867
2	French (fr) Alan Paton		66 974
3	Japanese (ja) アラン・ペイトン		66 036
4	Spanish (es) Alan Paton		65 439
5	German (de) Alan Paton		39 025
6	Swedish (sv) Alan Paton		23 466
7	Bulgarian (bg) Алън Пейтън		19 275
8	Polish (pl) Alan Paton		14 325
9	Finnish (fi) Alan Paton		11 885
10	Arabic (ar) آلان باتون		8 767

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) Alan Paton		2 121
2	French (fr) Alan Paton		120
3	German (de) Alan Paton		68
4	Spanish (es) Alan Paton		53
5	Catalan (ca) Alan Paton		50
6	Finnish (fi) Alan Paton		37
7	Italian (it) Alan Paton		37
8	Norwegian (no) Alan Paton		22
9	Russian (ru) Пэйтон, Алан		20
10	Czech (cs) Alan Paton		18

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alan Paton		192
2	French (fr) Alan Paton		44
3	German (de) Alan Paton		39
4	Croatian (hr) Alan Paton		24
5	Hebrew (he) אלן פטון		16
6	Spanish (es) Alan Paton		15
7	Bulgarian (bg) Алън Пейтън		14
8	Finnish (fi) Alan Paton		13
9	Norwegian (no) Alan Paton		13
10	Swedish (sv) Alan Paton		13

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	Catalan (ca) Alan Paton		2
2	Arabic (ar) آلان باتون		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Alan Paton		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Алън Пейтън		0
5	Czech (cs) Alan Paton		0
6	Danish (da) Alan Paton		0
7	German (de) Alan Paton		0
8	English (en) Alan Paton		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Alan Paton		0
10	Spanish (es) Alan Paton		0

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

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