Varanasi

Quality:

Varanasi - city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of India. This city is the 273rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 176th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article "Varanasi" in English Wikipedia has 94.3 points for quality (as of November 1, 2023). The article contains 397 references and 57 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
English Wikipedia:
The 5573rd most editable in English Wikipedia.
The 176th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 8705th most popular in AI.
The 273rd most popular in cities.
Achievements in the last month:
English Wikipedia:
The 8995th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In October 2023 the article "Varanasi" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Varanasi", its content was written by 1014 registered users of English Wikipedia (5573rd place) and edited by 2561 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8705th place).

Varanasi is on the 176th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 273rd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3685 times in English Wikipedia (6488th place) and cited 16599 times in all languages (9298th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #1283 in May 2014
  • Global: #1379 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #4786 in May 2014
  • Global: #9586 in February 2023

There are 52 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 November 1, 2023 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

下表顯示了最高品質的文章的語言版本。

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Hindi (hi)
वाराणसी
100
2Urdu (ur)
وارانسی
99.0882
3English (en)
Varanasi
94.2664
4Slovenian (sl)
Varanasi
93.6234
5Tamil (ta)
வாரணாசி
91.2944
6Hebrew (he)
ואראנסי
70.742
7Russian (ru)
Варанаси
48.389
8German (de)
Varanasi
48.1147
9Latin (la)
Varanasi
46.9995
10French (fr)
Bénarès
44.687
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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 "Varanasi" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Varanasi
11 131 260
2Hindi (hi)
वाराणसी
1 258 183
3Russian (ru)
Варанаси
687 827
4German (de)
Varanasi
669 628
5Spanish (es)
Benarés
627 167
6French (fr)
Bénarès
502 536
7Japanese (ja)
ヴァーラーナシー
480 397
8Italian (it)
Varanasi
433 414
9Polish (pl)
Waranasi
285 375
10Swedish (sv)
Varanasi
193 683
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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 October 2023

The most popular language versions of the article "Varanasi" in October 2023
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Varanasi
86 596
2Hindi (hi)
वाराणसी
9 548
3Russian (ru)
Варанаси
6 770
4German (de)
Varanasi
3 224
5Spanish (es)
Benarés
2 750
6Italian (it)
Varanasi
2 335
7French (fr)
Bénarès
2 136
8Japanese (ja)
ヴァーラーナシー
2 029
9Tamil (ta)
வாரணாசி
1 464
10Chinese (zh)
瓦拉納西
1 253
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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 "Varanasi" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Varanasi
1 014
2German (de)
Varanasi
160
3French (fr)
Bénarès
142
4Russian (ru)
Варанаси
112
5Italian (it)
Varanasi
110
6Dutch (nl)
Benares (stad)
78
7Hindi (hi)
वाराणसी
73
8Japanese (ja)
ヴァーラーナシー
68
9Hebrew (he)
ואראנסי
65
10Norwegian (no)
Varanasi
51
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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 October 2023

Language versions of the article "Varanasi" with the highest AI in October 2023
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Varanasi
5
2Hindi (hi)
वाराणसी
2
3German (de)
Varanasi
1
4Spanish (es)
Benarés
1
5Hebrew (he)
ואראנסי
1
6Armenian (hy)
Վարանասի
1
7Georgian (ka)
ვარანასი
1
8Portuguese (pt)
Varanasi
1
9Ukrainian (uk)
Варанасі
1
10Vietnamese (vi)
Varanasi
1
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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 "Varanasi" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Hindi (hi)
वाराणसी
5 666
2English (en)
Varanasi
3 685
3Italian (it)
Varanasi
1 104
4Tamil (ta)
வாரணாசி
705
5French (fr)
Bénarès
545
6Russian (ru)
Варанаси
511
7German (de)
Varanasi
425
8Japanese (ja)
ヴァーラーナシー
406
9Spanish (es)
Benarés
339
10Urdu (ur)
وارانسی
333
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Scores

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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
فاراناسي
azAzerbaijani
Bənarəs
beBelarusian
Варанасі
bgBulgarian
Варанаси
caCatalan
Benarés
csCzech
Váránasí
daDanish
Varanasi
deGerman
Varanasi
elGreek
Βαρανάσι
enEnglish
Varanasi
eoEsperanto
Varanasio
esSpanish
Benarés
etEstonian
Varanasi
euBasque
Varanasi
faPersian
بنارس
fiFinnish
Varanasi
frFrench
Bénarès
heHebrew
ואראנסי
hiHindi
वाराणसी
hrCroatian
Varanasi
huHungarian
Váránaszi
hyArmenian
Վարանասի
idIndonesian
Benares
itItalian
Varanasi
jaJapanese
ヴァーラーナシー
kaGeorgian
ვარანასი
koKorean
바라나시
laLatin
Varanasi
ltLithuanian
Varanasis
msMalay
Varanasi, Cantonment
nlDutch
Benares (stad)
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Varanasi
noNorwegian
Varanasi
plPolish
Waranasi
ptPortuguese
Varanasi
roRomanian
Varanasi
ruRussian
Варанаси
shSerbo-Croatian
Varanasi
simpleSimple English
Varanasi
skSlovak
Váránasí (mesto)
slSlovenian
Varanasi
srSerbian
Варанаси
svSwedish
Varanasi
taTamil
வாரணாசி
thThai
พาราณสี
trTurkish
Varanasi
ukUkrainian
Варанасі
urUrdu
وارانسی
uzUzbek
Varanasi
viVietnamese
Varanasi
zhChinese
瓦拉納西
zhminnanMin Nan
Benares (siâⁿ)

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4786
05.2014
Global:
#9586
02.2023

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1283
05.2014
Global:
#1379
03.2002

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Varanasi from Wikipedia articles about Ganges, Uttar Pradesh, Ravi Shankar, List of cities by time of continuous habitation and Aghori. Whereas reading the article about Varanasi people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Uttar Pradesh, Sapta Puri, Manikarnika Ghat and Ganges.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

simple: Varanasi

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