Nelson Mandela

Quality:

Nelson Mandela - President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013). This person is the 63^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 116^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Nelson Mandela” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 529 references and 39 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 213^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 449^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 116^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 159^th most popular in all topics.

The 258^th most popular in AI.

The 63^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1731^st most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1151^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4902^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Nelson Mandela” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 29 authors in all languages (4902^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Nelson Mandela”, its content was written by 2445 registered users of English Wikipedia (449^th place) and edited by 9920 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (258^th place).

Nelson Mandela is on the 116^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 63^rd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 5103 times in English Wikipedia (4736^th place) and cited 28068 times in all languages (6014^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5 in December 2013
• Global: #2 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4 in December 2013
• Global: #3 in December 2013

There are 55 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) Nelson Mandela		100
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		100
3	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		100
4	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		100
5	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		100
6	Polish (pl) Nelson Mandela		100
7	Simple English (simple) Nelson Mandela		100
8	Indonesian (id) Nelson Mandela		100
9	Catalan (ca) Nelson Mandela		100
10	Arabic (ar) نيلسون مانديلا		100

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Nelson Mandela		83 088 407
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		25 157 258
3	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		17 846 061
4	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		10 305 656
5	German (de) Nelson Mandela		9 861 131
6	Italian (it) Nelson Mandela		9 266 812
7	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		6 035 065
8	Japanese (ja) ネルソン・マンデラ		3 857 775
9	Dutch (nl) Nelson Mandela		3 404 216
10	Arabic (ar) نيلسون مانديلا		3 392 272

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) Nelson Mandela		179 943
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		36 225
3	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		26 173
4	Italian (it) Nelson Mandela		21 908
5	German (de) Nelson Mandela		19 605
6	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		16 622
7	Japanese (ja) ネルソン・マンデラ		16 251
8	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		10 708
9	Polish (pl) Nelson Mandela		6 933
10	Chinese (zh) 纳尔逊·曼德拉		6 754

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Nelson Mandela		2 445
2	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		792
3	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		685
4	German (de) Nelson Mandela		576
5	Italian (it) Nelson Mandela		542
6	Dutch (nl) Nelson Mandela		361
7	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		318
8	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		309
9	Swedish (sv) Nelson Mandela		251
10	Chinese (zh) 纳尔逊·曼德拉		250

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	Danish (da) Nelson Mandela		5
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		4
3	English (en) Nelson Mandela		3
4	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		3
5	Arabic (ar) نيلسون مانديلا		2
6	Catalan (ca) Nelson Mandela		2
7	German (de) Nelson Mandela		2
8	Norwegian (no) Nelson Mandela		2
9	Basque (eu) Nelson Mandela		1
10	Galician (gl) Nelson Mandela		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information