The Citizen (South African newspaper)

The Citizen - South African newspaper. Article “The Citizen (South African newspaper)” in English Wikipedia has 29 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.23 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.

In June 2025 the article “The Citizen (South African newspaper)” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Citizen (South African newspaper)”, its content was written by 79 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 112 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1483 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1573 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #34115 in January 2005
• Global: #89372 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #134970 in May 2022
• Global: #243546 in May 2022

There are 5 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) The Citizen (South African newspaper)		29.0322
2	German (de) The Citizen (Südafrika)		27.2602
3	Polish (pl) The Citizen (Południowa Afryka)		9.8275
4	French (fr) The Citizen (Afrique du Sud)		2.3383
5	Italian (it) The Citizen (Sudafrica)		2.0581

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Citizen (South African newspaper)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Citizen (South African newspaper)		237 482
2	French (fr) The Citizen (Afrique du Sud)		11 761
3	Polish (pl) The Citizen (Południowa Afryka)		4 603
4	German (de) The Citizen (Südafrika)		2 416
5	Italian (it) The Citizen (Sudafrica)		193

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Citizen (South African newspaper)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Citizen (South African newspaper)		1 061
2	German (de) The Citizen (Südafrika)		21
3	Polish (pl) The Citizen (Południowa Afryka)		20
4	French (fr) The Citizen (Afrique du Sud)		19
5	Italian (it) The Citizen (Sudafrica)		9

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

Language versions of the article "The Citizen (South African newspaper)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Citizen (South African newspaper)		79
2	French (fr) The Citizen (Afrique du Sud)		12
3	Polish (pl) The Citizen (Południowa Afryka)		12
4	German (de) The Citizen (Südafrika)		6
5	Italian (it) The Citizen (Sudafrica)		3

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

Language versions of the article "The Citizen (South African newspaper)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Citizen (South African newspaper)		3
2	German (de) The Citizen (Südafrika)		0
3	French (fr) The Citizen (Afrique du Sud)		0
4	Italian (it) The Citizen (Sudafrica)		0
5	Polish (pl) The Citizen (Południowa Afryka)		0

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

Language versions of the article "The Citizen (South African newspaper)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Citizen (South African newspaper)		1 483
2	French (fr) The Citizen (Afrique du Sud)		41
3	German (de) The Citizen (Südafrika)		37
4	Polish (pl) The Citizen (Południowa Afryka)		7
5	Italian (it) The Citizen (Sudafrica)		5

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#	Language	Value
de	German The Citizen (Südafrika)
en	English The Citizen (South African newspaper)
fr	French The Citizen (Afrique du Sud)
it	Italian The Citizen (Sudafrica)
pl	Polish The Citizen (Południowa Afryka)

Best Rank

English: #134970 05.2022

Global: #243546 05.2022

Best Rank

English: #34115 01.2005

Global: #89372 01.2005

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