Apartheid

Quality:

Apartheid - system of racial segregation and oppression based on skin colour in South Africa, introduced in 1948 and abolished in the years 1991 to 1994. Article “Apartheid” in English Wikipedia has 88.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 327 references and 44 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.64 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 1367^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 536^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1002^nd most popular in all topics.

The 846^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4178^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 3431^st most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3274^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1496^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Apartheid” was edited by 15 authors in English Wikipedia (3431^st place) and written by 52 authors in all languages (1496^th place).

Since the creation of article “Apartheid”, its content was written by 2283 registered users of English Wikipedia (536^th place) and edited by 6760 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (846^th place).

The article is cited 8789 times in English Wikipedia (2284^th place) and cited 31421 times in all languages (5214^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #29 in August 2002
• Global: #48 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #21 in December 2013
• Global: #13 in December 2013

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, 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	French (fr) Apartheid		91.5773
2	Esperanto (eo) Apartismo		89.9678
3	Greek (el) Απαρτχάιντ		89.7909
4	English (en) Apartheid		88.2223
5	Finnish (fi) Apartheid		86.1294
6	Chinese (zh) 南非種族隔離		82.9935
7	German (de) Apartheid		80.9696
8	Portuguese (pt) Apartheid		71.7735
9	Dutch (nl) Apartheid in Zuid-Afrika		70.3046
10	Ukrainian (uk) Апартеїд		65.7357

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Apartheid		37 921 160
2	Spanish (es) Apartheid		9 166 956
3	Portuguese (pt) Apartheid		5 946 680
4	French (fr) Apartheid		5 676 803
5	German (de) Apartheid		5 257 050
6	Russian (ru) Апартеид		4 874 504
7	Italian (it) Apartheid		3 846 797
8	Japanese (ja) アパルトヘイト		3 437 294
9	Polish (pl) Apartheid		2 220 172
10	Simple English (simple) Apartheid		1 449 213

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) Apartheid		116 350
2	Russian (ru) Апартеид		17 234
3	Spanish (es) Apartheid		11 902
4	French (fr) Apartheid		10 509
5	German (de) Apartheid		9 547
6	Japanese (ja) アパルトヘイト		9 257
7	Simple English (simple) Apartheid		7 012
8	Italian (it) Apartheid		6 633
9	Polish (pl) Apartheid		4 742
10	Portuguese (pt) Apartheid		4 664

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Apartheid		2 283
2	German (de) Apartheid		510
3	French (fr) Apartheid		365
4	Italian (it) Apartheid		306
5	Spanish (es) Apartheid		305
6	Russian (ru) Апартеид		237
7	Dutch (nl) Apartheid in Zuid-Afrika		223
8	Portuguese (pt) Apartheid		204
9	Japanese (ja) アパルトヘイト		184
10	Hebrew (he) אפרטהייד		160

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	English (en) Apartheid		15
2	Simple English (simple) Apartheid		12
3	Spanish (es) Apartheid		6
4	Vietnamese (vi) Apartheid		3
5	French (fr) Apartheid		2
6	Armenian (hy) Ապարտհեյդ		2
7	Japanese (ja) アパルトヘイト		2
8	Dutch (nl) Apartheid in Zuid-Afrika		2
9	Azerbaijani (az) Aparteid		1
10	Belarusian (be) Апартэід		1

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

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