The Sowetan

Quality:

The Sowetan - South African newspaper. Article "The Sowetan" in English Wikipedia has 26.5 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 8 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "The Sowetan", its content was written by 58 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 91 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1483 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1540 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #67874 in January 2005
  • Global: #145116 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #27325 in May 2015
  • Global: #59144 in May 2015

There are 3 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 August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
The Sowetan
27.3381
2English (en)
The Sowetan
26.5087
3French (fr)
The Sowetan
2.8511
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "The Sowetan" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Sowetan
256 283
2German (de)
The Sowetan
12 131
3French (fr)
The Sowetan
5 598
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "The Sowetan" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Sowetan
454
2German (de)
The Sowetan
19
3French (fr)
The Sowetan
8
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "The Sowetan" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Sowetan
58
2French (fr)
The Sowetan
17
3German (de)
The Sowetan
16
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "The Sowetan" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
The Sowetan
1
2German (de)
The Sowetan
0
3English (en)
The Sowetan
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "The Sowetan" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Sowetan
1 483
2German (de)
The Sowetan
32
3French (fr)
The Sowetan
25
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
The Sowetan
enEnglish
The Sowetan
frFrench
The Sowetan

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#27325
05.2015
Global:
#59144
05.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#67874
01.2005
Global:
#145116
01.2005

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Sowetan from Wikipedia articles about List of newspapers in South Africa, List of South African media, The Sunday Times, Jennifer Griffin and Patrick Shai. Whereas reading the article about The Sowetan people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Tiso Blackstar Group, Nthato Motlana, List of newspapers in South Africa, Soweto and The World.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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About WikiRank

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