Pope Benedict XVI

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Benedict XVI - pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013 (1927–2022). This person is the 324^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 663^rd most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article "Pope Benedict XVI" in English Wikipedia has 89.5 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 400 references and 46 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1401^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 194^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 663^rd most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 901^st most popular in all topics.

The 107^th most popular in AI.

The 324^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5397^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3243^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4046^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Pope Benedict XVI" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 37 authors in all languages (4046^th place).

Since the creation of article "Pope Benedict XVI", its content was written by 2852 registered users of English Wikipedia (194^th place) and edited by 11577 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (107^th place).

Benedict XVI is on the 663^rd place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 324^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 6107 times in English Wikipedia (3417^th place) and cited 54165 times in all languages (2870^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in April 2005
• Global: #2 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #29 in February 2013
• Global: #6 in February 2013

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 August 1, 2024 (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	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		100
2	Croatian (hr) Benedikt XVI.		100
3	Malay (ms) Paus Benedictus XVI		100
4	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		99.3313
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Benedikt XVI		96.3347
6	French (fr) Benoît XVI		95.8082
7	Finnish (fi) Benedictus XVI		95.4841
8	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		95.0748
9	Catalan (ca) Benet XVI		94.9991
10	Indonesian (id) Paus Benediktus XVI		94.9942

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope Benedict XVI		35 624 222
2	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		11 666 457
3	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		9 500 913
4	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		7 479 952
5	French (fr) Benoît XVI		4 947 421
6	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		4 761 386
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		4 189 932
8	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		2 756 429
9	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		1 969 400
10	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		1 468 637

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) Pope Benedict XVI		108 613
2	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		25 738
3	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		25 647
4	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		18 336
5	French (fr) Benoît XVI		13 152
6	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		11 105
7	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		11 009
8	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		10 428
9	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		4 547
10	Chinese (zh) 本篤十六世		4 012

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pope Benedict XVI		2 852
2	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		1 413
3	French (fr) Benoît XVI		838
4	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		831
5	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		748
6	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		544
7	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		379
8	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		370
9	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		303
10	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		202

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	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		12
2	English (en) Pope Benedict XVI		5
3	Swedish (sv) Benedictus XVI		4
4	Croatian (hr) Benedikt XVI.		3
5	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		3
6	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		2
7	French (fr) Benoît XVI		1
8	Hindi (hi) पोप बेनेडिक्ट XVI		1
9	Indonesian (id) Paus Benediktus XVI		1
10	Korean (ko) 교황 베네딕토 16세		1

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

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