Tamils

Quality:

90

Tamil - ethnic group. Article "Tamils" in English Wikipedia has 96.2 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 223 references and 24 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4208^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9969^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8040^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Tamils" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Tamils", its content was written by 1156 registered users of English Wikipedia (4208^th place) and edited by 2458 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9969^th place).

The article is cited 2108 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8980 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #166 in September 2005
• Global: #850 in September 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3977 in May 2009
• Global: #3696 in April 2019

There are 49 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	Malay (ms) Orang Tamil		97.3062
2	English (en) Tamils		96.1991
3	Catalan (ca) Tàmils		95
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Tamilar		92.0854
5	Tamil (ta) தமிழர்		89.7165
6	Portuguese (pt) Tâmeis		85.4545
7	Hindi (hi) तमिल		80.6275
8	German (de) Tamilen		78.8294
9	French (fr) Tamouls		76.9767
10	Chinese (zh) 泰米尔人		73.1169

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tamils		8 761 538
2	German (de) Tamilen		1 337 861
3	French (fr) Tamouls		683 110
4	Tamil (ta) தமிழர்		630 549
5	Russian (ru) Тамилы		570 376
6	Japanese (ja) タミル人		354 513
7	Spanish (es) Tamil (pueblo)		349 512
8	Polish (pl) Tamilowie		276 219
9	Chinese (zh) 泰米尔人		270 866
10	Italian (it) Tamil (popolo)		210 963

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) Tamils		48 905
2	German (de) Tamilen		27 221
3	Spanish (es) Tamil (pueblo)		22 270
4	Tamil (ta) தமிழர்		6 135
5	Dutch (nl) Tamils		5 990
6	Chinese (zh) 泰米尔人		5 271
7	Ukrainian (uk) Таміли		4 741
8	Russian (ru) Тамилы		3 965
9	French (fr) Tamouls		3 471
10	Italian (it) Tamil (popolo)		3 421

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tamils		1 156
2	German (de) Tamilen		169
3	French (fr) Tamouls		125
4	Tamil (ta) தமிழர்		105
5	Russian (ru) Тамилы		77
6	Chinese (zh) 泰米尔人		52
7	Dutch (nl) Tamils		51
8	Hebrew (he) טמילים		49
9	Norwegian (no) Tamiler		49
10	Japanese (ja) タミル人		43

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) Tamilen		3
2	English (en) Tamils		2
3	Simple English (simple) Tamil people		2
4	French (fr) Tamouls		1
5	Hindi (hi) तमिल		1
6	Indonesian (id) Suku Tamil		1
7	Italian (it) Tamil (popolo)		1
8	Russian (ru) Тамилы		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Таміли		1
10	Chinese (zh) 泰米尔人		1

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

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