Freedom Riders

Quality:

Freedom Riders - U.S. activists who rode interstate buses in interracial groups to show the continuing prevalence of segregation. This event is the 1090^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 601^st most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Freedom Riders” in English Wikipedia has 88.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 264 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.79 points.

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:

The 601^st most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1090^th most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “Freedom Riders” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Freedom Riders”, its content was written by 824 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1059 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Freedom Riders is on the 601^st place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 1090^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1346 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2171 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1213 in May 2011
• Global: #3155 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2490 in May 2011
• Global: #7551 in May 2011

There are 17 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) Freedom Riders		88.104
2	Chinese (zh) 自由乘车者		60.9288
3	Spanish (es) Viajeros de la libertad		49.6023
4	Persian (fa) مسافران آزادی		38.6183
5	Italian (it) Freedom Riders		33.6419
6	Portuguese (pt) Viajantes da Liberdade		31.5568
7	German (de) Freedom Ride		27.105
8	Greek (el) Επιβάτες για την Ελευθερία		26.4901
9	Finnish (fi) Vapausmatkustajat		24.5638
10	Simple English (simple) Freedom Riders		24.1741

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Freedom Riders		6 659 494
2	French (fr) Freedom ride		221 960
3	German (de) Freedom Ride		208 360
4	Spanish (es) Viajeros de la libertad		126 245
5	Chinese (zh) 自由乘车者		52 247
6	Italian (it) Freedom Riders		46 328
7	Portuguese (pt) Viajantes da Liberdade		31 679
8	Danish (da) Freedom Riders		31 287
9	Russian (ru) Freedom Riders		29 778
10	Norwegian (no) Freedom Riders		6 928

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) Freedom Riders		10 620
2	French (fr) Freedom ride		458
3	German (de) Freedom Ride		327
4	Chinese (zh) 自由乘车者		210
5	Spanish (es) Viajeros de la libertad		189
6	Italian (it) Freedom Riders		104
7	Russian (ru) Freedom Riders		79
8	Portuguese (pt) Viajantes da Liberdade		62
9	Simple English (simple) Freedom Riders		47
10	Czech (cs) Freedom Riders		22

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Freedom Riders		824
2	German (de) Freedom Ride		48
3	French (fr) Freedom ride		40
4	Spanish (es) Viajeros de la libertad		25
5	Italian (it) Freedom Riders		25
6	Danish (da) Freedom Riders		18
7	Russian (ru) Freedom Riders		18
8	Chinese (zh) 自由乘车者		15
9	Portuguese (pt) Viajantes da Liberdade		9
10	Greek (el) Επιβάτες για την Ελευθερία		8

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) Freedom Riders		2
2	German (de) Freedom Ride		1
3	Greek (el) Επιβάτες για την Ελευθερία		1
4	French (fr) Freedom ride		1
5	Arabic (ar) ركاب الحرية		0
6	Czech (cs) Freedom Riders		0
7	Danish (da) Freedom Riders		0
8	Spanish (es) Viajeros de la libertad		0
9	Persian (fa) مسافران آزادی		0
10	Finnish (fi) Vapausmatkustajat		0

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

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