Ismail I

Ismail I - founder and first shah of Safavid Iran. This person is the 9438^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ismail I” in English Wikipedia has 88.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 190 references and 30 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.86 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Ismail I” was edited by 12 authors in English Wikipedia (5689^th place) and written by 29 authors in all languages (4921^st place).

Since the creation of article “Ismail I”, its content was written by 539 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2542 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9854^th place).

Ismail I is on the 9438^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1194 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7255 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3013 in February 2016
• Global: #1055 in May 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22763 in June 2025
• Global: #12458 in June 2025

There are 45 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	Russian (ru) Исмаил I		99
2	Uzbek (uz) Shoh Ismoil Safaviy		91.1899
3	Turkish (tr) I. İsmail		89.0213
4	English (en) Ismail I		88.7607
5	Azerbaijani (az) I İsmayıl		84.8102
6	Persian (fa) شاه اسماعیل یکم		73.4187
7	Greek (el) Ισμαήλ Α΄ της Περσίας		65.9621
8	Arabic (ar) إسماعيل الصفوي		61.5272
9	Hebrew (he) שאה אסמאעיל הראשון		57.0667
10	Japanese (ja) イスマーイール1世		48.8745

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ismail I" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ismail I		2 440 904
2	Persian (fa) شاه اسماعیل یکم		1 954 654
3	Turkish (tr) I. İsmail		1 878 883
4	Azerbaijani (az) I İsmayıl		1 616 661
5	Russian (ru) Исмаил I		833 598
6	Arabic (ar) إسماعيل الصفوي		766 124
7	German (de) Ismail I. (Schah)		193 701
8	Japanese (ja) イスマーイール1世		158 545
9	French (fr) Ismaïl Ier		147 609
10	Spanish (es) Ismaíl I		79 240

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Ismail I" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ismail I		38 129
2	Turkish (tr) I. İsmail		17 571
3	Arabic (ar) إسماعيل الصفوي		11 034
4	Persian (fa) شاه اسماعیل یکم		10 964
5	Russian (ru) Исмаил I		5 959
6	Azerbaijani (az) I İsmayıl		4 584
7	French (fr) Ismaïl Ier		1 943
8	Chinese (zh) 伊斯玛仪一世		1 388
9	Spanish (es) Ismaíl I		1 272
10	Japanese (ja) イスマーイール1世		1 196

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

Language versions of the article "Ismail I" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ismail I		539
2	Persian (fa) شاه اسماعیل یکم		369
3	Turkish (tr) I. İsmail		295
4	Russian (ru) Исмаил I		208
5	Azerbaijani (az) I İsmayıl		179
6	French (fr) Ismaïl Ier		123
7	German (de) Ismail I. (Schah)		120
8	Arabic (ar) إسماعيل الصفوي		104
9	Dutch (nl) Ismail I (Safawieden)		69
10	Italian (it) Scià Isma'il I		56

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

Language versions of the article "Ismail I" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ismail I		12
2	Persian (fa) شاه اسماعیل یکم		4
3	Russian (ru) Исмаил I		3
4	Azerbaijani (az) I İsmayıl		2
5	Arabic (ar) إسماعيل الصفوي		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Исмаил I		1
7	Catalan (ca) Ismaïl I		1
8	Spanish (es) Ismaíl I		1
9	Dutch (nl) Ismail I (Safawieden)		1
10	Polish (pl) Isma’il I		1

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

Language versions of the article "Ismail I" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ismail I		1 194
2	Azerbaijani (az) I İsmayıl		794
3	Persian (fa) شاه اسماعیل یکم		639
4	Arabic (ar) إسماعيل الصفوي		563
5	Turkish (tr) I. İsmail		537
6	Russian (ru) Исмаил I		505
7	French (fr) Ismaïl Ier		305
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ісмаїл I		270
9	Dutch (nl) Ismail I (Safawieden)		185
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Ismail I		170

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إسماعيل الصفوي
az	Azerbaijani I İsmayıl
be	Belarusian Ісмаіл I
bg	Bulgarian Исмаил I
ca	Catalan Ismaïl I
cs	Czech Ismá‘íl I.
da	Danish Ismail I
de	German Ismail I. (Schah)
el	Greek Ισμαήλ Α΄ της Περσίας
en	English Ismail I
eo	Esperanto Ismail la 1-a
es	Spanish Ismaíl I
eu	Basque Ismail I.a
fa	Persian شاه اسماعیل یکم
fi	Finnish Isma'il I
fr	French Ismaïl Ier
gl	Galician Ismail I
he	Hebrew שאה אסמאעיל הראשון
hi	Hindi इस्माईल प्रथम
hr	Croatian Ismail I.
hu	Hungarian I. Iszmáíl perzsa sah
hy	Armenian Իսմայիլ I
id	Indonesian Ismail I
it	Italian Scià Isma'il I
ja	Japanese イスマーイール1世
ka	Georgian ისმაილ I
kk	Kazakh I Ысмайыл
ko	Korean 이스마일 1세
nl	Dutch Ismail I (Safawieden)
no	Norwegian Ismail I
pl	Polish Isma’il I
pt	Portuguese Ismail I da Pérsia
ro	Romanian Ismail I
ru	Russian Исмаил I
sh	Serbo-Croatian Ismail I
simple	Simple English Ismail I
sr	Serbian Исмаил I
sv	Swedish Ismail I
tr	Turkish I. İsmail
uk	Ukrainian Ісмаїл I
ur	Urdu اسماعیل صفوی
uz	Uzbek Shoh Ismoil Safaviy
vi	Vietnamese Ismail I
zh	Chinese 伊斯玛仪一世
zhminnan	Min Nan Ismail 1-sè

Best Rank

English: #22763 06.2025

Global: #12458 06.2025

Best Rank

English: #3013 02.2016

Global: #1055 05.2022

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