Kaaba

Quality:

Kaaba - cubical shrine in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; direction of prayer for Muslims. This building is the 14^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 16^th most popular building in English Wikipedia. Article “Kaaba” in English Wikipedia has 97.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 157 references and 20 sections.

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:

en

The 3426^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2913^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 16^th most popular in buildings in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2408^th most popular in all topics.

The 2523^rd most popular in AI.

The 14^th most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2363^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 9151^st most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1554^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5624^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Kaaba” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (9151^st place) and written by 28 authors in all languages (5624^th place).

Since the creation of article “Kaaba”, its content was written by 1368 registered users of English Wikipedia (2913^th place) and edited by 4694 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2523^rd place).

Kaaba is on the 16^th place in local ranking of buildings in English Wikipedia and on the 14^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 1442 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8914 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #742 in September 2015
• Global: #518 in August 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #393 in September 2015
• Global: #282 in September 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, 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	English (en) Kaaba		97.496
2	Arabic (ar) الكعبة		96.3941
3	Japanese (ja) カアバ		88.3148
4	Slovenian (sl) Kaba (svetišče)		84.3879
5	Turkish (tr) Kâbe		77.4009
6	Portuguese (pt) Caaba		76.9027
7	Latin (la) Caba		74.0666
8	Chinese (zh) 克爾白		73.2846
9	Thai (th) กะอ์บะฮ์		66.8034
10	Simple English (simple) Kaaba		65.8452

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kaaba		24 690 671
2	Arabic (ar) الكعبة		4 802 556
3	Russian (ru) Кааба		4 779 210
4	German (de) Kaaba		4 104 531
5	French (fr) Kaaba		3 219 118
6	Turkish (tr) Kâbe		2 645 875
7	Spanish (es) Kaaba		2 602 064
8	Indonesian (id) Ka'bah		1 610 552
9	Persian (fa) کعبه		1 550 621
10	Italian (it) Kaʿba		1 193 307

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) Kaaba		161 419
2	German (de) Kaaba		27 604
3	Russian (ru) Кааба		27 523
4	Arabic (ar) الكعبة		20 760
5	French (fr) Kaaba		18 138
6	Spanish (es) Kaaba		12 493
7	Japanese (ja) カアバ		11 898
8	Turkish (tr) Kâbe		11 812
9	Persian (fa) کعبه		8 307
10	Italian (it) Kaʿba		6 453

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kaaba		1 368
2	German (de) Kaaba		366
3	French (fr) Kaaba		307
4	Arabic (ar) الكعبة		230
5	Turkish (tr) Kâbe		190
6	Dutch (nl) Kaäba		179
7	Russian (ru) Кааба		165
8	Persian (fa) کعبه		158
9	Spanish (es) Kaaba		144
10	Italian (it) Kaʿba		143

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) Kaaba		10
2	Turkish (tr) Kâbe		5
3	French (fr) Kaaba		4
4	Persian (fa) کعبه		2
5	Japanese (ja) カアバ		2
6	Chinese (zh) 克爾白		2
7	Italian (it) Kaʿba		1
8	Simple English (simple) Kaaba		1
9	Swedish (sv) Kaba		1
10	Arabic (ar) الكعبة		0

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

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