Rodney King

Quality:

Rodney King - African American police brutality victim (1965–2012). This person is the 2363^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Rodney King” in English Wikipedia has 77.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 138 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.65 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 3300^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2287^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8305^th most popular in all topics.

The 2363^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1415^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 5591^st most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2506^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Rodney King” was edited by 12 authors in English Wikipedia (5591^st place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rodney King”, its content was written by 1483 registered users of English Wikipedia (2287^th place) and edited by 2339 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Rodney King is on the 2363^rd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 412 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1136 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #50 in June 2012
• Global: #181 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #35 in June 2020
• Global: #79 in June 2020

There are 30 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) Rodney King		77.8571
2	Estonian (et) Rodney King		68.0441
3	French (fr) Rodney King		38.1572
4	German (de) Rodney King		36.6476
5	Hungarian (hu) Rodney King		35.5977
6	Chinese (zh) 罗德尼·金		34.8713
7	Finnish (fi) Rodney King		33.8222
8	Simple English (simple) Rodney King		33.5652
9	Swedish (sv) Rodney King		28.8846
10	Malay (ms) Rodney King		26.327

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rodney King		25 095 435
2	German (de) Rodney King		1 051 021
3	French (fr) Rodney King		1 006 953
4	Spanish (es) Rodney King		761 858
5	Russian (ru) Кинг, Родни		486 727
6	Italian (it) Rodney King		366 541
7	Dutch (nl) Rodney King		251 867
8	Portuguese (pt) Rodney King		251 536
9	Polish (pl) Rodney King		187 569
10	Japanese (ja) ロドニー・キング		183 561

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) Rodney King		217 341
2	German (de) Rodney King		7 931
3	Spanish (es) Rodney King		7 880
4	French (fr) Rodney King		6 966
5	Russian (ru) Кинг, Родни		5 001
6	Italian (it) Rodney King		2 956
7	Japanese (ja) ロドニー・キング		2 379
8	Chinese (zh) 罗德尼·金		1 996
9	Portuguese (pt) Rodney King		1 711
10	Dutch (nl) Rodney King		1 673

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rodney King		1 483
2	German (de) Rodney King		152
3	French (fr) Rodney King		152
4	Italian (it) Rodney King		76
5	Dutch (nl) Rodney King		59
6	Norwegian (no) Rodney King-saken		54
7	Russian (ru) Кинг, Родни		46
8	Polish (pl) Rodney King		34
9	Spanish (es) Rodney King		32
10	Chinese (zh) 罗德尼·金		27

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) Rodney King		12
2	French (fr) Rodney King		2
3	Catalan (ca) Rodney King		1
4	Czech (cs) Rodney King		1
5	Korean (ko) 로드니 킹		1
6	Simple English (simple) Rodney King		1
7	Turkish (tr) Rodney King		1
8	Arabic (ar) رودني كينغ		0
9	Danish (da) Rodney King		0
10	German (de) Rodney King		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