Nelson Mandela

Quality:

Nelson Mandela - First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013). This person is the 57^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 56^th most popular person in Galician Wikipedia. Article “Nelson Mandela” in Galician Wikipedia has 98 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 518 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Galician Wikipedia:

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The 291^st most popular in Galician Wikipedia.

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The 149^th most editable in Galician Wikipedia.

The 56^th most popular in people in Galician Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 154^th most popular in all topics.

The 250^th most popular in AI.

The 57^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Galician Wikipedia:

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The 4867^th most popular in Galician Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1061^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1248^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Nelson Mandela”, its content was written by 84 registered users of Galician Wikipedia (149^th place) and edited by 9847 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (250^th place).

Nelson Mandela is on the 56^th place in local ranking of people in Galician Wikipedia and on the 57^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 262 times in Galician Wikipedia (8351^st place) and cited 26818 times in all languages (6137^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Galician): #1 in January 2014
• Global: #2 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Galician): #2 in December 2013
• Global: #3 in December 2013

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	English (en) Nelson Mandela		100
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		100
3	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		100
4	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		100
5	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		100
6	Arabic (ar) نيلسون مانديلا		100
7	Polish (pl) Nelson Mandela		100
8	Simple English (simple) Nelson Mandela		100
9	Indonesian (id) Nelson Mandela		100
10	Catalan (ca) Nelson Mandela		100

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Nelson Mandela		80 702 468
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		24 708 769
3	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		17 394 580
4	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		10 088 609
5	German (de) Nelson Mandela		9 587 973
6	Italian (it) Nelson Mandela		9 040 961
7	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		5 459 388
8	Japanese (ja) ネルソン・マンデラ		3 705 683
9	Dutch (nl) Nelson Mandela		3 331 388
10	Arabic (ar) نيلسون مانديلا		3 309 103

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) Nelson Mandela		203 738
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		40 620
3	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		28 550
4	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		20 780
5	German (de) Nelson Mandela		18 207
6	Italian (it) Nelson Mandela		14 422
7	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		14 005
8	Japanese (ja) ネルソン・マンデラ		9 874
9	Chinese (zh) 纳尔逊·曼德拉		9 160
10	Korean (ko) 넬슨 만델라		9 111

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Nelson Mandela		2 397
2	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		782
3	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		671
4	German (de) Nelson Mandela		569
5	Italian (it) Nelson Mandela		537
6	Dutch (nl) Nelson Mandela		360
7	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		310
8	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		304
9	Swedish (sv) Nelson Mandela		246
10	Chinese (zh) 纳尔逊·曼德拉		246

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	Korean (ko) 넬슨 만델라		10
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		9
3	Arabic (ar) نيلسون مانديلا		5
4	English (en) Nelson Mandela		5
5	Hebrew (he) נלסון מנדלה		4
6	Norwegian (no) Nelson Mandela		3
7	Simple English (simple) Nelson Mandela		3
8	Uzbek (uz) Nelson Mandela		3
9	Chinese (zh) 纳尔逊·曼德拉		3
10	Japanese (ja) ネルソン・マンデラ		2

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