The Independent

Quality:

The Independent - British national daily newspaper. This website is the 188^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 149^th most popular website in English Wikipedia. Article “The Independent” in English Wikipedia has 75.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 125 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.96 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:

The 149^th most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 188^th most popular in websites.

In June 2025 the article “The Independent” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Independent”, its content was written by 671 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1518 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Independent is on the 149^th place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 188^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 41196 times in English Wikipedia (291^st place) and cited 88374 times in all languages (1708^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3654 in August 2004
• Global: #7802 in March 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9925 in June 2017
• Global: #20051 in February 2017

There are 50 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 Independent		75.3015
2	Estonian (et) The Independent		35.6629
3	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		33.5853
4	Turkish (tr) The Independent		33.4545
5	Georgian (ka) The Independent		31.1894
6	Russian (ru) The Independent		30.7077
7	Catalan (ca) The Independent		30.2021
8	Hebrew (he) אינדפנדנט		29.3686
9	French (fr) The Independent		28.1669
10	Bulgarian (bg) Индипендънт		27.4487

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Independent		7 652 104
2	German (de) The Independent		373 536
3	Russian (ru) The Independent		354 461
4	French (fr) The Independent		305 273
5	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		224 005
6	Spanish (es) The Independent		157 498
7	Italian (it) The Independent		134 697
8	Persian (fa) ایندیپندنت		102 181
9	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		98 571
10	Polish (pl) The Independent		93 946

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) The Independent		26 741
2	Russian (ru) The Independent		1 109
3	German (de) The Independent		664
4	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		637
5	Chinese (zh) 獨立報 (英國)		630
6	French (fr) The Independent		550
7	Persian (fa) ایندیپندنت		540
8	Turkish (tr) The Independent		396
9	Spanish (es) The Independent		336
10	Italian (it) The Independent		297

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Independent		671
2	German (de) The Independent		103
3	French (fr) The Independent		74
4	Russian (ru) The Independent		61
5	Italian (it) The Independent		46
6	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		41
7	Dutch (nl) The Independent		38
8	Chinese (zh) 獨立報 (英國)		32
9	Finnish (fi) The Independent		30
10	Ukrainian (uk) Індепендент		28

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) The Independent		9
2	Hungarian (hu) The Independent		1
3	Ukrainian (uk) Індепендент		1
4	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) The Independent		0
6	Belarusian (be) The Independent		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Индипендънт		0
8	Catalan (ca) The Independent		0
9	Czech (cs) The Independent		0
10	Danish (da) The Independent		0

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

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