Klaus Barbie

Quality:

Klaus Barbie - German SS officer, head of the Gestapo in Lyon and convicted war criminal (1913–1991). This person is the 4051^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Klaus Barbie” in Italian Wikipedia has 49.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 61 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.63 points.

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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4051^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 6969^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9169^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Klaus Barbie” was edited by 3 authors in Italian Wikipedia (6969^th place) and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Klaus Barbie”, its content was written by 153 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 2304 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Klaus Barbie is on the 4051^st place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 123 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 2958 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #97 in June 2006
• Global: #3625 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #4665 in December 2020
• Global: #865 in April 2025

There are 38 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) Klaus Barbie		72.9595
2	French (fr) Klaus Barbie		59.3306
3	German (de) Klaus Barbie		56.8837
4	Italian (it) Klaus Barbie		49.8841
5	Norwegian (no) Klaus Barbie		47.7943
6	Persian (fa) کلاوس باربی		45.9723
7	Bulgarian (bg) Клаус Барби		45.0376
8	Swedish (sv) Klaus Barbie		42.4124
9	Spanish (es) Klaus Barbie		39.9924
10	Dutch (nl) Klaus Barbie		36.9557

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Klaus Barbie		8 234 075
2	French (fr) Klaus Barbie		4 642 055
3	German (de) Klaus Barbie		2 647 216
4	Spanish (es) Klaus Barbie		1 101 322
5	Polish (pl) Klaus Barbie		633 421
6	Italian (it) Klaus Barbie		569 943
7	Russian (ru) Барби, Клаус		528 097
8	Portuguese (pt) Klaus Barbie		412 079
9	Dutch (nl) Klaus Barbie		386 929
10	Japanese (ja) クラウス・バルビー		313 638

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) Klaus Barbie		50 740
2	French (fr) Klaus Barbie		27 751
3	German (de) Klaus Barbie		14 387
4	Spanish (es) Klaus Barbie		5 629
5	Italian (it) Klaus Barbie		4 502
6	Russian (ru) Барби, Клаус		3 616
7	Polish (pl) Klaus Barbie		2 505
8	Dutch (nl) Klaus Barbie		2 497
9	Czech (cs) Klaus Barbie		1 465
10	Portuguese (pt) Klaus Barbie		1 457

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Klaus Barbie		594
2	French (fr) Klaus Barbie		385
3	German (de) Klaus Barbie		296
4	Italian (it) Klaus Barbie		153
5	Spanish (es) Klaus Barbie		115
6	Dutch (nl) Klaus Barbie		79
7	Russian (ru) Барби, Клаус		75
8	Polish (pl) Klaus Barbie		66
9	Japanese (ja) クラウス・バルビー		41
10	Ukrainian (uk) Клаус Барбі		38

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	Italian (it) Klaus Barbie		3
2	Turkish (tr) Klaus Barbie		2
3	German (de) Klaus Barbie		1
4	English (en) Klaus Barbie		1
5	Spanish (es) Klaus Barbie		1
6	French (fr) Klaus Barbie		1
7	Japanese (ja) クラウス・バルビー		1
8	Dutch (nl) Klaus Barbie		1
9	Russian (ru) Барби, Клаус		1
10	Chinese (zh) 克劳斯·巴比		1

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

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