The Color Purple

Quality:

The Color Purple - 1982 novel by Alice Walker. This book is the 403^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 207^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Color Purple” in English Wikipedia has 45.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 30 references and 12 sections.

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 207^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 403^rd most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “The Color Purple” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Color Purple”, its content was written by 497 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 738 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Color Purple is on the 207^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 403^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 476 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1101 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3629 in October 2009
• Global: #5946 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #750 in December 2023
• Global: #2042 in December 2023

There are 20 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 Color Purple		45.2319
2	Bulgarian (bg) Пурпур		38.0029
3	Catalan (ca) El color porpra		36.1616
4	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花		34.5871
5	Spanish (es) El color púrpura (novela)		34.4482
6	Serbian (sr) Боја пурпура (роман)		33.3919
7	Georgian (ka) იისფერი (რომანი)		25.4064
8	Romanian (ro) Culoarea purpurie (roman)		23.7639
9	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (Roman)		20.1344
10	Italian (it) Il colore viola (romanzo)		20.1269

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Color Purple		10 270 568
2	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre		396 909
3	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (Roman)		218 977
4	Portuguese (pt) A Cor Púrpura (livro)		119 339
5	Italian (it) Il colore viola (romanzo)		115 457
6	Japanese (ja) カラーパープル		108 079
7	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花		103 402
8	Dutch (nl) The Color Purple (roman)		48 060
9	Spanish (es) El color púrpura (novela)		30 301
10	Finnish (fi) Häivähdys purppuraa		27 174

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 Color Purple		28 153
2	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre		2 414
3	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (Roman)		898
4	Spanish (es) El color púrpura (novela)		741
5	Portuguese (pt) A Cor Púrpura (livro)		684
6	Italian (it) Il colore viola (romanzo)		502
7	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花		394
8	Japanese (ja) カラーパープル		339
9	Persian (fa) به رنگ ارغوان (رمان)		186
10	Polish (pl) Kolor purpury (powieść)		158

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Color Purple		497
2	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre		41
3	Portuguese (pt) A Cor Púrpura (livro)		30
4	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花		28
5	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (Roman)		27
6	Hebrew (he) הצבע ארגמן (ספר)		18
7	Finnish (fi) Häivähdys purppuraa		17
8	Italian (it) Il colore viola (romanzo)		15
9	Spanish (es) El color púrpura (novela)		13
10	Japanese (ja) カラーパープル		11

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 Color Purple		4
2	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre		3
3	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花		2
4	Catalan (ca) El color porpra		1
5	Spanish (es) El color púrpura (novela)		1
6	Serbian (sr) Боја пурпура (роман)		1
7	Arabic (ar) اللون الأرجواني (رواية)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Пурпур		0
9	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (Roman)		0
10	Persian (fa) به رنگ ارغوان (رمان)		0

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

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