Yasser Arafat

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Yasser Arafat - Palestinian political leader (1929–2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004). This person is the 1340^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Yasser Arafat” in French Wikipedia has 93.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 294 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.91 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 3507^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

fr

The 942^nd most editable in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4497^th most popular in all topics.

The 922^nd most popular in AI.

The 1340^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 1110^th most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1369^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3302^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Yasser Arafat” was edited by 2 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 35 authors in all languages (3302^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Yasser Arafat”, its content was written by 513 registered users of French Wikipedia (942^nd place) and edited by 6536 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (922^nd place).

Yasser Arafat is on the 1340^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 868 times in French Wikipedia and cited 19679 times in all languages (8446^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #2 in November 2004
• Global: #1 in November 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #36 in October 2023
• Global: #41 in October 2023

There are 54 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Yasir Arafat		100
2	Turkish (tr) Yaser Arafat		97.4227
3	Vietnamese (vi) Yasser Arafat		97.405
4	English (en) Yasser Arafat		96.9946
5	Romanian (ro) Yasser Arafat		95.6819
6	Norwegian (no) Yasir Arafat		94.1176
7	French (fr) Yasser Arafat		93.2899
8	Indonesian (id) Yasser Arafat		91.8226
9	German (de) Jassir Arafat		91.4286
10	Polish (pl) Jasir Arafat		90.2624

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Yasser Arafat		16 219 453
2	Arabic (ar) ياسر عرفات		3 737 754
3	French (fr) Yasser Arafat		3 150 880
4	German (de) Jassir Arafat		2 864 241
5	Spanish (es) Yasir Arafat		2 676 689
6	Russian (ru) Арафат, Ясир		2 241 097
7	Italian (it) Yasser Arafat		1 667 700
8	Polish (pl) Jasir Arafat		1 121 567
9	Persian (fa) یاسر عرفات		1 089 740
10	Japanese (ja) ヤーセル・アラファート		1 026 324

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) Yasser Arafat		157 906
2	French (fr) Yasser Arafat		27 841
3	Russian (ru) Арафат, Ясир		24 429
4	Spanish (es) Yasir Arafat		24 263
5	Italian (it) Yasser Arafat		23 820
6	German (de) Jassir Arafat		22 026
7	Arabic (ar) ياسر عرفات		11 783
8	Portuguese (pt) Yasser Arafat		10 802
9	Persian (fa) یاسر عرفات		10 256
10	Turkish (tr) Yaser Arafat		8 742

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Yasser Arafat		1 575
2	German (de) Jassir Arafat		554
3	French (fr) Yasser Arafat		513
4	Hebrew (he) יאסר ערפאת		409
5	Dutch (nl) Yasser Arafat		250
6	Arabic (ar) ياسر عرفات		239
7	Italian (it) Yasser Arafat		239
8	Russian (ru) Арафат, Ясир		227
9	Spanish (es) Yasir Arafat		215
10	Polish (pl) Jasir Arafat		149

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	German (de) Jassir Arafat		8
2	English (en) Yasser Arafat		5
3	Hebrew (he) יאסר ערפאת		4
4	Italian (it) Yasser Arafat		3
5	Arabic (ar) ياسر عرفات		2
6	French (fr) Yasser Arafat		2
7	Korean (ko) 야세르 아라파트		2
8	Simple English (simple) Yasser Arafat		2
9	Vietnamese (vi) Yasser Arafat		2
10	Spanish (es) Yasir Arafat		1

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

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