Old Testament

Quality:

Old Testament - first division of the Christian biblical canon. This book is the 23^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 115^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Old Testament” in English Wikipedia has 83.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 115 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9181^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

The 115^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2335^th most popular in all topics.

The 3802^nd most popular in AI.

The 23^rd most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7820^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Old Testament” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Old Testament”, its content was written by 767 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 4073 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3802^nd place).

Old Testament is on the 115^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 23^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 6644 times in English Wikipedia (3348^th place) and cited 53731 times in all languages (3058^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #162 in January 2001
• Global: #162 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6169 in March 2013
• Global: #1359 in September 2019

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, 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	Catalan (ca) Antic Testament		84.6154
2	English (en) Old Testament		83.2153
3	Indonesian (id) Perjanjian Lama		82.706
4	Croatian (hr) Stari zavjet		75.169
5	Russian (ru) Ветхий Завет		67.8606
6	Chinese (zh) 旧约圣经		63.4533
7	Arabic (ar) العهد القديم		62.5592
8	Malay (ms) Perjanjian Lama		62.4917
9	Turkish (tr) Eski Ahit		61.2345
10	Thai (th) พันธสัญญาเดิม		49.2154

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Old Testament		15 255 750
2	Spanish (es) Antiguo Testamento		10 116 618
3	Russian (ru) Ветхий Завет		4 591 635
4	Simple English (simple) Old Testament		4 283 686
5	Japanese (ja) 旧約聖書		3 988 791
6	German (de) Altes Testament		3 076 876
7	French (fr) Ancien Testament		2 526 099
8	Polish (pl) Stary Testament		2 441 642
9	Portuguese (pt) Antigo Testamento		2 220 383
10	Italian (it) Antico Testamento		1 846 162

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) Old Testament		38 691
2	Japanese (ja) 旧約聖書		11 805
3	Russian (ru) Ветхий Завет		11 507
4	Spanish (es) Antiguo Testamento		9 939
5	German (de) Altes Testament		6 463
6	French (fr) Ancien Testament		5 549
7	Italian (it) Antico Testamento		3 509
8	Persian (fa) عهد عتیق		3 416
9	Polish (pl) Stary Testament		3 084
10	Chinese (zh) 旧约圣经		3 054

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Old Testament		767
2	German (de) Altes Testament		334
3	Spanish (es) Antiguo Testamento		241
4	French (fr) Ancien Testament		217
5	Italian (it) Antico Testamento		184
6	Russian (ru) Ветхий Завет		180
7	Japanese (ja) 旧約聖書		159
8	Dutch (nl) Oude Testament		154
9	Portuguese (pt) Antigo Testamento		122
10	Simple English (simple) Old Testament		98

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) Old Testament		7
2	German (de) Altes Testament		2
3	Arabic (ar) العهد القديم		1
4	Spanish (es) Antiguo Testamento		1
5	French (fr) Ancien Testament		1
6	Croatian (hr) Stari zavjet		1
7	Armenian (hy) Հին Կտակարան		1
8	Indonesian (id) Perjanjian Lama		1
9	Russian (ru) Ветхий Завет		1
10	Turkish (tr) Eski Ahit		1

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

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