Tank Man

Quality:

Tank Man - anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests. This person is the 3736^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Tank Man” in English Wikipedia has 70 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 80 references and 11 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8121^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3736^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7283^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6180^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7032^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Tank Man” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 25 authors in all languages (7032^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Tank Man”, its content was written by 907 registered users of English Wikipedia (8121^st place) and edited by 2302 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Tank Man is on the 3736^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 503 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1704 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #512 in June 2021
• Global: #1033 in June 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #455 in January 2019
• Global: #659 in June 2019

There are 39 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	Chinese (zh) 坦克人		95.9764
2	English (en) Tank Man		69.9998
3	Greek (el) Διαδηλωτής απέναντι στο τανκ		55.346
4	Russian (ru) Неизвестный бунтарь		49.1837
5	Basque (eu) Tanke Aurreko Gizona		47.3991
6	Polish (pl) Nieznany Buntownik		35.3232
7	Dutch (nl) Tankman		34.3543
8	German (de) Tank Man		32.7157
9	Japanese (ja) 無名の反逆者		32.6133
10	Vietnamese (vi) Người biểu tình vô danh		31.0081

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tank Man		12 296 998
2	Chinese (zh) 坦克人		3 163 376
3	Japanese (ja) 無名の反逆者		1 033 370
4	Russian (ru) Неизвестный бунтарь		921 878
5	Spanish (es) El hombre del tanque		915 733
6	Italian (it) Rivoltoso Sconosciuto		687 822
7	German (de) Tank Man		619 545
8	French (fr) Homme de Tian'anmen		604 027
9	Portuguese (pt) O Rebelde Desconhecido		303 516
10	Polish (pl) Nieznany Buntownik		301 505

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) Tank Man		82 666
2	Chinese (zh) 坦克人		33 450
3	Japanese (ja) 無名の反逆者		10 033
4	Italian (it) Rivoltoso Sconosciuto		5 932
5	Russian (ru) Неизвестный бунтарь		5 095
6	German (de) Tank Man		3 625
7	Spanish (es) El hombre del tanque		3 110
8	French (fr) Homme de Tian'anmen		2 580
9	Portuguese (pt) O Rebelde Desconhecido		2 210
10	Polish (pl) Nieznany Buntownik		1 441

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tank Man		907
2	Chinese (zh) 坦克人		235
3	French (fr) Homme de Tian'anmen		140
4	German (de) Tank Man		116
5	Russian (ru) Неизвестный бунтарь		93
6	Italian (it) Rivoltoso Sconosciuto		86
7	Japanese (ja) 無名の反逆者		71
8	Spanish (es) El hombre del tanque		70
9	Polish (pl) Nieznany Buntownik		53
10	Swedish (sv) Den okände rebellen		47

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) Tank Man		8
2	Turkish (tr) Meçhul Asi		3
3	Chinese (zh) 坦克人		3
4	French (fr) Homme de Tian'anmen		2
5	Hebrew (he) המורד האלמוני		2
6	Japanese (ja) 無名の反逆者		2
7	Thai (th) แทงค์แมน		2
8	German (de) Tank Man		1
9	Portuguese (pt) O Rebelde Desconhecido		1
10	Russian (ru) Неизвестный бунтарь		1

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

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