Hagia Sophia

Quality:

Hagia Sophia - Ottoman-era grand mosque and former Byzantine Orthodox patriarchal cathedral. This building is the 8^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 11^th most popular building in English Wikipedia. Article "Hagia Sophia" in English Wikipedia has 97.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 485 references and 44 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3134^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2807^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 11^th most popular in buildings in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1668^th most popular in all topics.

The 1214^th most popular in AI.

The 8^th most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4994^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2662^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3222^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Hagia Sophia" was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 41 authors in all languages (3222^nd place).

Since the creation of article "Hagia Sophia", its content was written by 1354 registered users of English Wikipedia (2807^th place) and edited by 5809 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1214^th place).

Hagia Sophia is on the 11^th place in local ranking of buildings in English Wikipedia and on the 8^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 1983 times in English Wikipedia and cited 13614 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6 in July 2020
• Global: #2 in July 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #32 in July 2020
• Global: #7 in July 2020

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 August 1, 2024 (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	Arabic (ar) آيا صوفيا		98.446
2	English (en) Hagia Sophia		97.7167
3	German (de) Hagia Sophia		97.4519
4	Armenian (hy) Սուրբ Սոֆիայի տաճար (Ստամբուլ)		93.2245
5	Chinese (zh) 阿亚索菲亚		92.7166
6	Turkish (tr) Ayasofya		92.0079
7	Russian (ru) Собор Святой Софии (Константинополь)		90.9249
8	Esperanto (eo) Hagia Sofia		88.5714
9	Slovenian (sl) Hagija Sofija		87.4114
10	Serbian (sr) Аја Софија		87.0854

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hagia Sophia		24 540 201
2	Turkish (tr) Ayasofya		6 622 640
3	Russian (ru) Собор Святой Софии (Константинополь)		4 787 459
4	Spanish (es) Santa Sofía		4 487 084
5	German (de) Hagia Sophia		4 478 683
6	French (fr) Sainte-Sophie (Constantinople)		3 290 043
7	Arabic (ar) آيا صوفيا		2 389 280
8	Greek (el) Αγία Σοφία (Κωνσταντινούπολη)		2 040 665
9	Italian (it) Santa Sofia (Istanbul)		1 872 863
10	Polish (pl) Hagia Sophia		1 872 553

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) Hagia Sophia		114 087
2	Russian (ru) Собор Святой Софии (Константинополь)		25 348
3	German (de) Hagia Sophia		18 780
4	Spanish (es) Santa Sofía		17 609
5	Turkish (tr) Ayasofya		17 082
6	French (fr) Sainte-Sophie (Constantinople)		12 998
7	Arabic (ar) آيا صوفيا		9 935
8	Italian (it) Santa Sofia (Istanbul)		8 836
9	Chinese (zh) 阿亚索菲亚		7 148
10	Polish (pl) Hagia Sophia		6 624

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hagia Sophia		1 354
2	German (de) Hagia Sophia		506
3	French (fr) Sainte-Sophie (Constantinople)		363
4	Turkish (tr) Ayasofya		329
5	Italian (it) Santa Sofia (Istanbul)		257
6	Spanish (es) Santa Sofía		208
7	Russian (ru) Собор Святой Софии (Константинополь)		207
8	Dutch (nl) Hagia Sophia		183
9	Polish (pl) Hagia Sophia		139
10	Arabic (ar) آيا صوفيا		138

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	German (de) Hagia Sophia		9
2	English (en) Hagia Sophia		6
3	Russian (ru) Собор Святой Софии (Константинополь)		5
4	Turkish (tr) Ayasofya		4
5	Arabic (ar) آيا صوفيا		3
6	Indonesian (id) Hagia Sofia, Istanbul		3
7	Italian (it) Santa Sofia (Istanbul)		2
8	Japanese (ja) アヤソフィア		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Santa Sofia		1
10	Simple English (simple) Hagia Sophia		1

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

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