Ban Ki-moon

Quality:

Ban Ki-moon - 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations. This person is the 2809^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ban Ki-moon” in English Wikipedia has 94.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 241 references and 20 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9261^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 6146^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3899^th most popular in AI.

The 2809^th most popular in people.

In June 2025 the article “Ban Ki-moon” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ban Ki-moon”, its content was written by 1022 registered users of English Wikipedia (6146^th place) and edited by 3981 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3899^th place).

Ban Ki-moon is on the 2809^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1987 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9388 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #182 in October 2006
• Global: #37 in October 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #137 in January 2014
• Global: #344 in January 2014

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	Chinese (zh) 潘基文		99.1348
2	English (en) Ban Ki-moon		94.9116
3	Korean (ko) 반기문		81.4803
4	Indonesian (id) Ban Ki-moon		80.5427
5	Portuguese (pt) Ban Ki-moon		75.5612
6	Malay (ms) Ban Ki-moon		61.1963
7	French (fr) Ban Ki-moon		58.3285
8	Japanese (ja) 潘基文		53.6193
9	German (de) Ban Ki-moon		50.3215
10	Swedish (sv) Ban Ki-moon		48.4067

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ban Ki-moon		14 438 172
2	Japanese (ja) 潘基文		1 534 794
3	German (de) Ban Ki-moon		1 230 203
4	French (fr) Ban Ki-moon		1 228 521
5	Russian (ru) Пан Ги Мун		1 150 802
6	Spanish (es) Ban Ki-moon		1 105 599
7	Korean (ko) 반기문		1 045 571
8	Chinese (zh) 潘基文		631 245
9	Italian (it) Ban Ki-moon		629 835
10	Arabic (ar) بان كي مون		405 428

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) Ban Ki-moon		30 318
2	Russian (ru) Пан Ги Мун		4 136
3	Chinese (zh) 潘基文		3 496
4	French (fr) Ban Ki-moon		2 858
5	German (de) Ban Ki-moon		2 669
6	Persian (fa) بان کی‌مون		2 352
7	Spanish (es) Ban Ki-moon		2 347
8	Japanese (ja) 潘基文		1 920
9	Korean (ko) 반기문		1 804
10	Italian (it) Ban Ki-moon		1 767

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ban Ki-moon		1 022
2	German (de) Ban Ki-moon		231
3	French (fr) Ban Ki-moon		228
4	Korean (ko) 반기문		207
5	Japanese (ja) 潘基文		154
6	Chinese (zh) 潘基文		142
7	Russian (ru) Пан Ги Мун		139
8	Italian (it) Ban Ki-moon		136
9	Spanish (es) Ban Ki-moon		132
10	Dutch (nl) Ban Ki-moon		112

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	Persian (fa) بان کی‌مون		4
2	English (en) Ban Ki-moon		2
3	Korean (ko) 반기문		2
4	Arabic (ar) بان كي مون		1
5	Catalan (ca) Ban Ki-moon		1
6	French (fr) Ban Ki-moon		1
7	Italian (it) Ban Ki-moon		1
8	Russian (ru) Пан Ги Мун		1
9	Urdu (ur) بان کی مون		1
10	Chinese (zh) 潘基文		1

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

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