Ashoka

Quality:

Ashoka - Mauryan emperor from 268 to 232 BCE. This person is the 1770^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ashoka” in English Wikipedia has 95 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 425 references and 56 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3541^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2463^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5920^th most popular in all topics.

The 4845^th most popular in AI.

The 1770^th most popular in people.

In June 2026 the article “Ashoka” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ashoka”, its content was written by 1480 registered users of English Wikipedia (2463^rd place) and edited by 3649 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4845^th place).

Ashoka is on the 1770^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3525 times in English Wikipedia (8396^th place) and cited 13267 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #203 in July 2001
• Global: #231 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #273 in June 2015
• Global: #608 in June 2015

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	Korean (ko) 아소카		100
2	Tamil (ta) அசோகர்		100
3	English (en) Ashoka		95
4	Esperanto (eo) Aŝoko		79.379
5	Basque (eu) Asoka		71.266
6	Chinese (zh) 阿育王		63.6542
7	Czech (cs) Ašóka		61.3161
8	Catalan (ca) Aixoca		58.0025
9	Latin (la) Piodasses		57.8709
10	Spanish (es) Aśoka		57.431

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ashoka		25 565 607
2	Hindi (hi) अशोक		3 882 886
3	Thai (th) พระเจ้าอโศกมหาราช		1 386 705
4	Indonesian (id) Asoka		1 330 741
5	Japanese (ja) アショーカ		721 222
6	Russian (ru) Ашока		712 990
7	Spanish (es) Aśoka		643 075
8	Chinese (zh) 阿育王		591 350
9	German (de) Ashoka		557 317
10	French (fr) Ashoka		489 507

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) Ashoka		50 528
2	Hindi (hi) अशोक		7 129
3	Japanese (ja) アショーカ		3 075
4	Chinese (zh) 阿育王		2 472
5	Thai (th) พระเจ้าอโศกมหาราช		1 797
6	Russian (ru) Ашока		1 732
7	French (fr) Ashoka		1 445
8	German (de) Ashoka		1 371
9	Spanish (es) Aśoka		1 350
10	Italian (it) Aśoka		753

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ashoka		1 480
2	French (fr) Ashoka		178
3	Hindi (hi) अशोक		176
4	German (de) Ashoka		164
5	Italian (it) Aśoka		110
6	Russian (ru) Ашока		100
7	Vietnamese (vi) A-dục vương		89
8	Dutch (nl) Ashoka		85
9	Japanese (ja) アショーカ		77
10	Chinese (zh) 阿育王		68

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) Ashoka		7
2	Bulgarian (bg) Ашока		1
3	Catalan (ca) Aixoca		1
4	Basque (eu) Asoka		1
5	Indonesian (id) Asoka		1
6	Simple English (simple) Ashoka		1
7	Serbian (sr) Ашока		1
8	Tamil (ta) அசோகர்		1
9	Turkish (tr) Büyük Asoka		1
10	Arabic (ar) أشوكا		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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