Ponce Pilate

Quality:

Pontius Pilatus - fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36. This person is the 1863^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ponce Pilate” in French Wikipedia has 91 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 373 references and 30 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.79 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 6763^rd most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 6398^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6463^rd most popular in all topics.

The 5583^rd most popular in AI.

The 1863^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 8059^th most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 3089^th most editable in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5436^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6703^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ponce Pilate” was edited by 5 authors in French Wikipedia (3089^th place) and written by 25 authors in all languages (6703^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Ponce Pilate”, its content was written by 260 registered users of French Wikipedia (6398^th place) and edited by 3361 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5583^rd place).

Pontius Pilatus is on the 1863^rd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 676 times in French Wikipedia and cited 9744 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #293 in August 2013
• Global: #922 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #195 in May 2012
• Global: #652 in April 2025

There are 51 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) Pontius Pilate		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Pôncio Pilatos		100
3	German (de) Pontius Pilatus		93.3333
4	French (fr) Ponce Pilate		91
5	Slovak (sk) Pontius Pilatus		77.2588
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Pontius Pilatus		75.4983
7	Estonian (et) Pontius Pilatus		70.9438
8	Chinese (zh) 本丟·彼拉多		65.9332
9	Norwegian (no) Pontius Pilatus		64.8149
10	Vietnamese (vi) Phongxiô Philatô		54.7797

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pontius Pilate		14 475 259
2	Spanish (es) Poncio Pilato		4 045 900
3	Russian (ru) Понтий Пилат		4 028 138
4	French (fr) Ponce Pilate		2 143 128
5	German (de) Pontius Pilatus		1 933 180
6	Portuguese (pt) Pôncio Pilatos		1 625 293
7	Italian (it) Ponzio Pilato		1 366 976
8	Polish (pl) Poncjusz Piłat		981 499
9	Dutch (nl) Pontius Pilatus		475 578
10	Japanese (ja) ピラト		413 886

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) Pontius Pilate		84 828
2	Russian (ru) Понтий Пилат		17 845
3	Spanish (es) Poncio Pilato		12 254
4	Portuguese (pt) Pôncio Pilatos		8 666
5	French (fr) Ponce Pilate		8 279
6	German (de) Pontius Pilatus		7 739
7	Italian (it) Ponzio Pilato		5 066
8	Polish (pl) Poncjusz Piłat		2 633
9	Japanese (ja) ピラト		2 439
10	Chinese (zh) 本丟·彼拉多		2 021

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pontius Pilate		913
2	German (de) Pontius Pilatus		311
3	French (fr) Ponce Pilate		260
4	Italian (it) Ponzio Pilato		210
5	Spanish (es) Poncio Pilato		175
6	Russian (ru) Понтий Пилат		145
7	Polish (pl) Poncjusz Piłat		115
8	Dutch (nl) Pontius Pilatus		101
9	Portuguese (pt) Pôncio Pilatos		93
10	Hebrew (he) פונטיוס פילאטוס		80

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) Pontius Pilate		9
2	French (fr) Ponce Pilate		5
3	Italian (it) Ponzio Pilato		3
4	Chinese (zh) 本丟·彼拉多		3
5	Arabic (ar) بيلاطس البنطي		1
6	Catalan (ca) Ponç Pilat		1
7	Hebrew (he) פונטיוס פילאטוס		1
8	Polish (pl) Poncjusz Piłat		1
9	Turkish (tr) Pontius Pilatus		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Ponti Pilat		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information