Ali

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Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib - 4th Rashidun Caliph (r. 656–661) and first Shia Imam. This person is the 755^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ali” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 937 references and 44 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5483^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1619^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2308^th most popular in all topics.

The 1308^th most popular in AI.

The 755^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3958^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2491^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2569^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Ali” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 40 authors in all languages (2569^th place).

Since the creation of article “Ali”, its content was written by 1700 registered users of English Wikipedia (1619^th place) and edited by 5888 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1308^th place).

Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib is on the 755^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 2691 times in English Wikipedia and cited 24373 times in all languages (6931^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #548 in August 2011
• Global: #324 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1280 in March 2026
• Global: #567 in March 2025

There are 54 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) Ali		100
2	Persian (fa) علی		100
3	Hindi (hi) अली इब्न अबी तालिब		100
4	Urdu (ur) علی بن ابی طالب		100
5	Indonesian (id) Ali bin Abi Thalib		100
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Ali		100
7	Serbian (sr) Алија		100
8	Arabic (ar) علي بن أبي طالب		100
9	Chinese (zh) 阿里·本·阿比·塔利卜		97.9747
10	Swedish (sv) Ali ibn Abi Talib		97.2528

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ali		20 374 406
2	Arabic (ar) علي بن أبي طالب		15 400 272
3	Persian (fa) علی		6 619 958
4	Turkish (tr) Ali		4 100 974
5	Indonesian (id) Ali bin Abi Thalib		3 785 656
6	Russian (ru) Али ибн Абу Талиб		2 521 914
7	French (fr) Ali ibn Abi Talib		2 177 775
8	German (de) ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib		1 438 769
9	Spanish (es) Alí Ibn Abi Tálib		862 864
10	Urdu (ur) علی بن ابی طالب		769 982

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) Ali		108 436
2	Persian (fa) علی		34 348
3	Turkish (tr) Ali		16 478
4	Russian (ru) Али ибн Абу Талиб		7 926
5	Hindi (hi) अली इब्न अबी तालिब		5 372
6	French (fr) Ali ibn Abi Talib		5 357
7	Urdu (ur) علی بن ابی طالب		3 913
8	Indonesian (id) Ali bin Abi Thalib		3 901
9	German (de) ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib		3 787
10	Azerbaijani (az) Əli		2 614

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ali		1 700
2	Persian (fa) علی		551
3	Arabic (ar) علي بن أبي طالب		397
4	Turkish (tr) Ali		341
5	French (fr) Ali ibn Abi Talib		302
6	German (de) ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib		284
7	Russian (ru) Али ибн Абу Талиб		216
8	Dutch (nl) Ali ibn Aboe Talib		145
9	Italian (it) ʿAlī ibn ʾAbī Ṭālib		140
10	Spanish (es) Alí Ibn Abi Tálib		123

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	Turkish (tr) Ali		9
2	English (en) Ali		8
3	Urdu (ur) علی بن ابی طالب		4
4	Russian (ru) Али ибн Абу Талиб		3
5	Arabic (ar) علي بن أبي طالب		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Əli		2
7	Persian (fa) علی		2
8	Armenian (hy) Ալի իբն Աբի Տալիբ		2
9	Serbian (sr) Алија		2
10	French (fr) Ali ibn Abi Talib		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