PayPal

Quality:

PayPal - American worldwide online payments system. This company is the 34^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 49^th most popular company in English Wikipedia and the 35^th most popular website in English Wikipedia and the 9^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “PayPal” in English Wikipedia has 89.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 287 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.73 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 2769^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1445^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 49^th most popular in business in English Wikipedia.

The 35^th most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

The 9^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2073^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1976^th most popular in AI.

The 34^th most popular in business.

The 27^th most popular in websites.

The 10^th most popular in software.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6216^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 6841^st most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4466^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “PayPal” was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (6841^st place) and written by 21 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “PayPal”, its content was written by 1723 registered users of English Wikipedia (1445^th place) and edited by 5056 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1976^th place).

PayPal is on the 49^th place in local ranking of business in English Wikipedia and on the 34^th place in global ranking of business in all the time.

PayPal is on the 35^th place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 27^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

PayPal is on the 9^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 10^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 1610 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7415 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #529 in December 2010
• Global: #438 in June 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #322 in June 2008
• Global: #568 in June 2008

There are 50 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) PayPal		89.8238
2	German (de) PayPal		80.5054
3	Korean (ko) 페이팔		56.9192
4	Malay (ms) PayPal		49.7917
5	Kazakh (kk) PayPal		48.5388
6	Arabic (ar) باي بال		48.0535
7	Russian (ru) PayPal		47.4968
8	Swedish (sv) Paypal		45.3344
9	French (fr) PayPal		44.4498
10	Simple English (simple) PayPal		40.2954

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) PayPal		27 304 484
2	German (de) PayPal		7 535 005
3	Spanish (es) PayPal		4 539 260
4	Russian (ru) PayPal		4 075 115
5	French (fr) PayPal		3 440 690
6	Japanese (ja) PayPal		2 795 114
7	Italian (it) PayPal		2 521 715
8	Chinese (zh) PayPal		1 606 203
9	Arabic (ar) باي بال		1 431 780
10	Portuguese (pt) PayPal		1 430 815

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) PayPal		91 074
2	German (de) PayPal		30 396
3	Spanish (es) PayPal		9 473
4	Russian (ru) PayPal		9 031
5	French (fr) PayPal		8 996
6	Italian (it) PayPal		8 260
7	Japanese (ja) PayPal		6 677
8	Chinese (zh) PayPal		4 563
9	Arabic (ar) باي بال		2 593
10	Polish (pl) PayPal		1 812

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) PayPal		1 723
2	German (de) PayPal		535
3	French (fr) PayPal		332
4	Russian (ru) PayPal		212
5	Italian (it) PayPal		207
6	Spanish (es) PayPal		164
7	Chinese (zh) PayPal		157
8	Dutch (nl) PayPal		147
9	Hebrew (he) PayPal		102
10	Japanese (ja) PayPal		101

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) PayPal		11
2	French (fr) PayPal		3
3	Chinese (zh) PayPal		2
4	Spanish (es) PayPal		1
5	Japanese (ja) PayPal		1
6	Korean (ko) 페이팔		1
7	Russian (ru) PayPal		1
8	Swedish (sv) Paypal		1
9	Arabic (ar) باي بال		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) PayPal		0

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

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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