The Color Purple

Quality:

The Color Purple - 1982 novel by Alice Walker. This book is the 417^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 210^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Color Purple” in English Wikipedia has 45 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 210^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 417^th most popular in books.

In June 2026 the article “The Color Purple” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Color Purple”, its content was written by 502 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 760 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Color Purple is on the 210^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 417^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 478 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1209 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3630 in October 2009
• Global: #5930 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #752 in December 2023
• Global: #2044 in December 2023

There are 22 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	English (en) The Color Purple		45.042
2	Bulgarian (bg) Пурпур		36.5049
3	Catalan (ca) El color porpra		36.1533
4	Spanish (es) El color púrpura (novela)		33.8502
5	Ukrainian (uk) Барва пурпурова (роман)		33.3357
6	Serbian (sr) Боја пурпура (роман)		33.1522
7	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花		32.6124
8	Georgian (ka) იისფერი (რომანი)		24.5911
9	Romanian (ro) Culoarea purpurie (roman)		23.8552
10	Italian (it) Il colore viola (romanzo)		20.8702

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Color Purple		10 576 906
2	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre		423 250
3	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (Roman)		229 561
4	Italian (it) Il colore viola (romanzo)		123 799
5	Japanese (ja) カラーパープル		111 885
6	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花		107 672
7	Dutch (nl) The Color Purple (roman)		49 803
8	Spanish (es) El color púrpura (novela)		38 889
9	Portuguese (pt) A Cor Púrpura (livro)		28 819
10	Finnish (fi) Häivähdys purppuraa		28 608

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		19 839
2	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre		2 143
3	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (Roman)		883
4	Italian (it) Il colore viola (romanzo)		664
5	Spanish (es) El color púrpura (novela)		541
6	Persian (fa) به رنگ ارغوان (رمان)		402
7	Portuguese (pt) A Cor Púrpura (livro)		396
8	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花		303
9	Polish (pl) Kolor purpury (powieść)		201
10	Japanese (ja) カラーパープル		192

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		502
2	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre		43
3	Portuguese (pt) A Cor Púrpura (livro)		32
4	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (Roman)		28
5	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花		28
6	Hebrew (he) הצבע ארגמן (ספר)		18
7	Finnish (fi) Häivähdys purppuraa		17
8	Italian (it) Il colore viola (romanzo)		17
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		2
2	Catalan (ca) El color porpra		1
3	Arabic (ar) اللون الأرجواني (رواية)		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Пурпур		0
5	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (Roman)		0
6	Spanish (es) El color púrpura (novela)		0
7	Persian (fa) به رنگ ارغوان (رمان)		0
8	Finnish (fi) Häivähdys purppuraa		0
9	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre		0
10	Hebrew (he) הצבע ארגמן (ספר)		0

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

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