Ilich Ramírez

Quality:

Carlos the Jackal - Venezuelan-born international terror operative. This person is the 4790^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ilich Ramírez” in Spanish Wikipedia has 34.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Spanish) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4790^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Spanish Wikipedia:

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The 5952^nd most editable in Spanish Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ilich Ramírez” was edited by 4 authors in Spanish Wikipedia (5952^nd place) and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ilich Ramírez”, its content was written by 137 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 2231 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Carlos the Jackal is on the 4790^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 82 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 1866 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #951 in December 2011
• Global: #1953 in March 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #1274 in December 2024
• Global: #3550 in November 2011

There are 36 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) Carlos the Jackal		68.4692
2	Polish (pl) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		56.0629
3	Slovenian (sl) Carlos Šakal		55.8364
4	German (de) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		49.5622
5	Persian (fa) ایلیچ رامیرز سانچز		46.6181
6	Arabic (ar) كارلوس الثعلب		46.0848
7	French (fr) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		42.678
8	Azerbaijani (az) Çaqqal Karlos		34.8714
9	Spanish (es) Ilich Ramírez		34.2549
10	Greek (el) Κάρλος το Τσακάλι		31.5744

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Carlos the Jackal		8 222 984
2	French (fr) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		2 050 897
3	Spanish (es) Ilich Ramírez		1 757 994
4	German (de) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		1 193 444
5	Russian (ru) Рамирес Санчес, Ильич		825 294
6	Arabic (ar) كارلوس الثعلب		641 674
7	Turkish (tr) Ilich Ramirez Sanchez		447 449
8	Italian (it) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		400 060
9	Polish (pl) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		379 671
10	Japanese (ja) カルロス (テロリスト)		352 435

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) Carlos the Jackal		59 595
2	French (fr) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		15 391
3	Spanish (es) Ilich Ramírez		6 532
4	German (de) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		6 075
5	Russian (ru) Рамирес Санчес, Ильич		3 959
6	Arabic (ar) كارلوس الثعلب		1 941
7	Persian (fa) ایلیچ رامیرز سانچز		1 740
8	Italian (it) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		1 639
9	Turkish (tr) Ilich Ramirez Sanchez		1 494
10	Polish (pl) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		1 373

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Carlos the Jackal		576
2	French (fr) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		262
3	German (de) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		237
4	Spanish (es) Ilich Ramírez		137
5	Italian (it) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		116
6	Russian (ru) Рамирес Санчес, Ильич		93
7	Hebrew (he) איליץ' רמירס סאנצ'ס		90
8	Persian (fa) ایلیچ رامیرز سانچز		66
9	Dutch (nl) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		64
10	Arabic (ar) كارلوس الثعلب		62

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	Spanish (es) Ilich Ramírez		4
2	Hebrew (he) איליץ' רמירס סאנצ'ס		3
3	Korean (ko) 일리치 라미레스 산체스		2
4	Arabic (ar) كارلوس الثعلب		1
5	German (de) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		1
6	English (en) Carlos the Jackal		1
7	Finnish (fi) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Çaqqal Karlos		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Илич Рамирес Санчес		0
10	Catalan (ca) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez		0

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

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