Rodney King

Quality:

Rodney King - African American police brutality victim (1965–2012). This person is the 2444^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Rodney King” in English Wikipedia has 71.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 144 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 12.59 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:

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The 3366^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2239^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8361^st most popular in all topics.

The 2444^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6491^st most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 4058^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Rodney King” was edited by 12 authors in English Wikipedia (4058^th place) and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rodney King”, its content was written by 1527 registered users of English Wikipedia (2239^th place) and edited by 2393 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Rodney King is on the 2444^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 404 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1150 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: #78 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, 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) Rodney King		71.329
2	Estonian (et) Rodney King		65.838
3	French (fr) Rodney King		37.9343
4	German (de) Rodney King		36.3791
5	Hungarian (hu) Rodney King		35.529
6	Chinese (zh) 罗德尼·金		34.8691
7	Finnish (fi) Rodney King		33.8213
8	Simple English (simple) Rodney King		31.4324
9	Armenian (hy) Ռոդնի Քինգ		28.6748
10	Swedish (sv) Rodney King		28.6379

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rodney King		26 137 694
2	German (de) Rodney King		1 100 414
3	French (fr) Rodney King		1 057 802
4	Spanish (es) Rodney King		802 135
5	Russian (ru) Кинг, Родни		533 797
6	Italian (it) Rodney King		385 634
7	Portuguese (pt) Rodney King		261 658
8	Dutch (nl) Rodney King		259 939
9	Polish (pl) Rodney King		196 363
10	Japanese (ja) ロドニー・キング		192 585

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		79 848
2	German (de) Rodney King		3 415
3	French (fr) Rodney King		2 769
4	Russian (ru) Кинг, Родни		2 488
5	Spanish (es) Rodney King		2 004
6	Italian (it) Rodney King		1 161
7	Japanese (ja) ロドニー・キング		828
8	Dutch (nl) Rodney King		702
9	Polish (pl) Rodney King		594
10	Portuguese (pt) Rodney King		574

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		1 527
2	French (fr) Rodney King		157
3	German (de) Rodney King		153
4	Italian (it) Rodney King		76
5	Dutch (nl) Rodney King		59
6	Russian (ru) Кинг, Родни		47
7	Norwegian (no) Rodney King-saken		37
8	Polish (pl) Rodney King		37
9	Spanish (es) Rodney King		33
10	Chinese (zh) 罗德尼·金		29

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	Arabic (ar) رودني كينغ		1
4	Catalan (ca) Rodney King		0
5	Czech (cs) Rodney King		0
6	Danish (da) Rodney King		0
7	German (de) Rodney King		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Rodney King		0
9	Spanish (es) Rodney King		0
10	Estonian (et) Rodney King		0

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