Mosul

Quality:

Mosul - city in northern Iraq and capital of Nineveh Province. This city is the 474^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 542^nd most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Mosul” in English Wikipedia has 93.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 245 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.94 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:

en

The 9749^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 542^nd most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7765^th most popular in AI.

The 474^th most popular in cities.

In June 2025 the article “Mosul” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Mosul”, its content was written by 836 registered users of English Wikipedia (9749^th place) and edited by 2864 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7765^th place).

Mosul is on the 542^nd place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 474^th place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 2322 times in English Wikipedia and cited 16366 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #150 in October 2016
• Global: #90 in October 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #957 in October 2016
• Global: #570 in October 2016

There are 53 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) Mosul		93.8269
2	Serbian (sr) Мосул		93.6261
3	Slovenian (sl) Mosul		81.635
4	Arabic (ar) الموصل		80.2663
5	German (de) Mossul		73.2943
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Mosul		65.1423
7	French (fr) Mossoul		57.7532
8	Dutch (nl) Mosoel		49.5723
9	Japanese (ja) モースル		47.1214
10	Finnish (fi) Mosul		46.5409

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mosul		5 381 307
2	Arabic (ar) الموصل		1 371 166
3	German (de) Mossul		1 064 694
4	Russian (ru) Мосул		712 508
5	French (fr) Mossoul		618 726
6	Turkish (tr) Musul		608 293
7	Spanish (es) Mosul		593 118
8	Persian (fa) موصل		477 979
9	Italian (it) Mosul		396 571
10	Polish (pl) Mosul		321 806

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) Mosul		25 755
2	Arabic (ar) الموصل		4 811
3	Russian (ru) Мосул		3 410
4	German (de) Mossul		3 379
5	French (fr) Mossoul		2 751
6	Spanish (es) Mosul		2 530
7	Turkish (tr) Musul		2 009
8	Italian (it) Mosul		1 817
9	Persian (fa) موصل		1 764
10	Chinese (zh) 摩苏尔		1 141

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mosul		836
2	German (de) Mossul		267
3	Arabic (ar) الموصل		255
4	French (fr) Mossoul		166
5	Russian (ru) Мосул		121
6	Italian (it) Mosul		111
7	Dutch (nl) Mosoel		103
8	Turkish (tr) Musul		87
9	Persian (fa) موصل		78
10	Hebrew (he) מוסול		78

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	Arabic (ar) الموصل		3
2	English (en) Mosul		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Mosul		1
4	Indonesian (id) Mosul		1
5	Japanese (ja) モースル		1
6	Dutch (nl) Mosoel		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Mossul		1
8	Swedish (sv) Mosul		1
9	Turkish (tr) Musul		1
10	Belarusian (be) Масул		0

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

On 3 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, Cilia Flores, Delcy Rodríguez, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, Stranger Things, 2026 United States strikes in Venezuela, Manuel Noriega, María Corina Machado.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela, 2026 United States strikes in Venezuela, Cilia Flores, Delcy Rodríguez, Hugo Chávez, Manuel Noriega, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, María Corina Machado, USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7).

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information