Urdu

Quality:

Urdu - Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia. Article “Urdu” in English Wikipedia has 91.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 360 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.82 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4489^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1794^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6281^st most popular in all topics.

The 3315^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7143^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1406^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6760^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3398^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Urdu” was edited by 22 authors in English Wikipedia (1406^th place) and written by 35 authors in all languages (3398^th place).

Since the creation of article “Urdu”, its content was written by 1606 registered users of English Wikipedia (1794^th place) and edited by 4299 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3315^th place).

The article is cited 23088 times in English Wikipedia (711^th place) and cited 79586 times in all languages (2111^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #260 in December 2019
• Global: #674 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3544 in August 2021
• Global: #3228 in July 2019

There are 55 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	Persian (fa) زبان اردو		100
2	Urdu (ur) اردو		93.4872
3	English (en) Urdu		91.6445
4	Hindi (hi) उर्दू भाषा		78.4286
5	Simple English (simple) Urdu		69.7362
6	Catalan (ca) Urdú		54.6608
7	Latin (la) Lingua Urdu		49.365
8	Arabic (ar) اللغة الأردية		48.9895
9	Russian (ru) Урду		48.1192
10	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Urdu		44.4093

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Urdu		21 526 993
2	German (de) Urdu		1 507 954
3	Russian (ru) Урду		1 263 762
4	Spanish (es) Urdu		1 241 789
5	Arabic (ar) اللغة الأردية		984 418
6	Urdu (ur) اردو		890 926
7	Japanese (ja) ウルドゥー語		829 786
8	French (fr) Ourdou		752 374
9	Hindi (hi) उर्दू भाषा		744 065
10	Italian (it) Lingua urdu		670 461

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) Urdu		83 765
2	Russian (ru) Урду		9 192
3	German (de) Urdu		5 758
4	Spanish (es) Urdu		4 662
5	Simple English (simple) Urdu		4 440
6	Chinese (zh) 乌尔都语		4 406
7	Japanese (ja) ウルドゥー語		4 118
8	French (fr) Ourdou		3 956
9	Arabic (ar) اللغة الأردية		3 463
10	Urdu (ur) اردو		3 414

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Urdu		1 606
2	German (de) Urdu		236
3	French (fr) Ourdou		166
4	Russian (ru) Урду		134
5	Hindi (hi) उर्दू भाषा		122
6	Italian (it) Lingua urdu		113
7	Dutch (nl) Urdu		106
8	Arabic (ar) اللغة الأردية		99
9	Urdu (ur) اردو		95
10	Norwegian (no) Urdu		85

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) Urdu		22
2	Russian (ru) Урду		5
3	Simple English (simple) Urdu		2
4	Catalan (ca) Urdú		1
5	German (de) Urdu		1
6	Hebrew (he) אורדו		1
7	Japanese (ja) ウルドゥー語		1
8	Norwegian (no) Urdu		1
9	Polish (pl) Język urdu		1
10	Arabic (ar) اللغة الأردية		0

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

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