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 3859^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Tank Man” in English Wikipedia has 69.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 87 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.68 points.

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:

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The 7965^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3859^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8764^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Tank Man” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Tank Man”, its content was written by 941 registered users of English Wikipedia (7965^th place) and edited by 2371 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Tank Man is on the 3859^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 294 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1496 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #510 in June 2021
• Global: #1034 in June 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #459 in January 2019
• Global: #665 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, 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	Chinese (zh) 坦克人		91.0372
2	English (en) Tank Man		69.9347
3	Greek (el) Διαδηλωτής απέναντι στο τανκ		55.8373
4	Russian (ru) Неизвестный бунтарь		49.3437
5	Basque (eu) Tanke Aurreko Gizona		47.1201
6	Dutch (nl) Tankman		34.2562
7	Polish (pl) Nieznany Buntownik		33.9337
8	German (de) Tank Man		33.9222
9	Japanese (ja) 無名の反逆者		32.4077
10	Italian (it) Rivoltoso Sconosciuto		31.3535

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tank Man		12 732 989
2	Chinese (zh) 坦克人		3 334 031
3	Japanese (ja) 無名の反逆者		1 086 542
4	Russian (ru) Неизвестный бунтарь		990 366
5	Spanish (es) El hombre del tanque		941 115
6	Italian (it) Rivoltoso Sconosciuto		718 294
7	German (de) Tank Man		640 284
8	French (fr) Homme de Tian'anmen		628 092
9	Portuguese (pt) O Rebelde Desconhecido		314 930
10	Polish (pl) Nieznany Buntownik		313 542

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		53 486
2	Chinese (zh) 坦克人		24 126
3	Japanese (ja) 無名の反逆者		7 781
4	Italian (it) Rivoltoso Sconosciuto		5 083
5	Russian (ru) Неизвестный бунтарь		4 774
6	German (de) Tank Man		3 327
7	Spanish (es) El hombre del tanque		2 205
8	French (fr) Homme de Tian'anmen		2 104
9	Polish (pl) Nieznany Buntownik		1 309
10	Portuguese (pt) O Rebelde Desconhecido		965

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		941
2	Chinese (zh) 坦克人		245
3	French (fr) Homme de Tian'anmen		143
4	German (de) Tank Man		120
5	Russian (ru) Неизвестный бунтарь		95
6	Italian (it) Rivoltoso Sconosciuto		88
7	Spanish (es) El hombre del tanque		74
8	Japanese (ja) 無名の反逆者		73
9	Polish (pl) Nieznany Buntownik		55
10	Swedish (sv) Den okände rebellen		49

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		5
2	Azerbaijani (az) Naməlum üsyançı		2
3	German (de) Tank Man		2
4	Italian (it) Rivoltoso Sconosciuto		2
5	Chinese (zh) 坦克人		2
6	Catalan (ca) L'home del tanc de Tiananmen		1
7	Basque (eu) Tanke Aurreko Gizona		1
8	Galician (gl) O rebelde descoñecido		1
9	Japanese (ja) 無名の反逆者		1
10	Turkish (tr) Meçhul Asi		1

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 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