Alien

Quality:

Alien - 1979 film by Ridley Scott. This film is the 45^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 55^th most popular film in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Alien” in Italian Wikipedia has 69.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 91 references and 28 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 1590^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia.

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The 2012^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

The 55^th most popular in films in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1660^th most popular in all topics.

The 2717^th most popular in AI.

The 45^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 729^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2910^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3690^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4093^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Alien” was edited by 4 authors in Italian Wikipedia (2910^th place) and written by 32 authors in all languages (4093^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Alien”, its content was written by 296 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (2012^th place) and edited by 4654 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2717^th place).

Alien is on the 55^th place in local ranking of films in Italian Wikipedia and on the 45^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 384 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 8085 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #49 in August 2003
• Global: #429 in May 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #33 in May 2017
• Global: #61 in June 2012

There are 48 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, 2026 (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) Alien (film)		100
2	Spanish (es) Alien: el octavo pasajero		100
3	Malay (ms) Alien (filem)		100
4	French (fr) Alien (film)		94
5	Norwegian (no) Alien – den 8. passasjeren		92.1412
6	Russian (ru) Чужой (фильм)		83.138
7	Swedish (sv) Alien		80.3103
8	Catalan (ca) Alien		76.637
9	Portuguese (pt) Alien, o Oitavo Passageiro		73.0532
10	Japanese (ja) エイリアン (映画)		71.8333

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alien (film)		36 491 589
2	Russian (ru) Чужой (фильм)		7 041 784
3	German (de) Alien – Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt		5 428 333
4	Japanese (ja) エイリアン (映画)		5 146 768
5	Spanish (es) Alien: el octavo pasajero		5 014 369
6	French (fr) Alien (film)		4 603 242
7	Italian (it) Alien		3 866 584
8	Chinese (zh) 異形 (電影)		1 666 411
9	Portuguese (pt) Alien, o Oitavo Passageiro		1 563 696
10	Polish (pl) Obcy – ósmy pasażer Nostromo		1 080 453

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) Alien (film)		88 596
2	Italian (it) Alien		22 654
3	Japanese (ja) エイリアン (映画)		20 239
4	Russian (ru) Чужой (фильм)		15 966
5	German (de) Alien – Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt		11 229
6	French (fr) Alien (film)		8 005
7	Spanish (es) Alien: el octavo pasajero		7 567
8	Chinese (zh) 異形 (電影)		3 066
9	Portuguese (pt) Alien, o Oitavo Passageiro		2 442
10	Polish (pl) Obcy – ósmy pasażer Nostromo		2 150

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alien (film)		1 506
2	French (fr) Alien (film)		428
3	German (de) Alien – Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt		355
4	Italian (it) Alien		296
5	Spanish (es) Alien: el octavo pasajero		258
6	Russian (ru) Чужой (фильм)		258
7	Japanese (ja) エイリアン (映画)		200
8	Dutch (nl) Alien (film)		108
9	Hungarian (hu) A nyolcadik utas: a Halál		97
10	Polish (pl) Obcy – ósmy pasażer Nostromo		96

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) Alien (film)		10
2	Italian (it) Alien		4
3	German (de) Alien – Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt		2
4	French (fr) Alien (film)		2
5	Lithuanian (lt) Svetimas (1979 filmas)		2
6	Russian (ru) Чужой (фильм)		2
7	Arabic (ar) فضائي (فلم)		1
8	Catalan (ca) Alien		1
9	Czech (cs) Vetřelec (film)		1
10	Japanese (ja) エイリアン (映画)		1

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information