Thomas Sankara

Quality:

Thomas Sankara - President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. This person is the 6841^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Thomas Sankara” in Italian Wikipedia has 44.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 49 references and 32 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.93 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:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 9592^nd most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6841^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 9016^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9442^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3025^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Thomas Sankara” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 37 authors in all languages (3025^th place).

Since the creation of article “Thomas Sankara”, its content was written by 160 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (9592^nd place) and edited by 2134 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Thomas Sankara is on the 6841^st place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 59 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 4075 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1753 in October 2016
• Global: #1592 in August 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #1153 in January 2013
• Global: #3045 in August 2023

There are 46 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) Thomas Sankara		95.7091
2	Indonesian (id) Thomas Sankara		94.2857
3	Galician (gl) Thomas Sankara		83.5888
4	German (de) Thomas Sankara		75.165
5	Spanish (es) Thomas Sankara		72.0117
6	Greek (el) Τομά Σανκαρά		69.3494
7	French (fr) Thomas Sankara		63.0111
8	Portuguese (pt) Thomas Sankara		58.0423
9	Russian (ru) Санкара, Тома		50.1133
10	Persian (fa) توما سانکارا		45.8992

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thomas Sankara		6 120 783
2	French (fr) Thomas Sankara		3 272 924
3	Italian (it) Thomas Sankara		986 294
4	Russian (ru) Санкара, Тома		733 320
5	Spanish (es) Thomas Sankara		675 408
6	German (de) Thomas Sankara		579 927
7	Portuguese (pt) Thomas Sankara		369 117
8	Arabic (ar) توماس سانكارا		169 578
9	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·桑卡拉		146 741
10	Polish (pl) Thomas Sankara		95 969

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) Thomas Sankara		64 847
2	French (fr) Thomas Sankara		15 303
3	Spanish (es) Thomas Sankara		8 390
4	German (de) Thomas Sankara		6 510
5	Italian (it) Thomas Sankara		5 694
6	Russian (ru) Санкара, Тома		3 367
7	Portuguese (pt) Thomas Sankara		3 234
8	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·桑卡拉		2 058
9	Turkish (tr) Thomas Sankara		1 178
10	Indonesian (id) Thomas Sankara		1 105

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thomas Sankara		481
2	French (fr) Thomas Sankara		324
3	Italian (it) Thomas Sankara		160
4	German (de) Thomas Sankara		147
5	Spanish (es) Thomas Sankara		130
6	Russian (ru) Санкара, Тома		102
7	Dutch (nl) Thomas Sankara		64
8	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·桑卡拉		49
9	Norwegian (no) Thomas Sankara		43
10	Portuguese (pt) Thomas Sankara		43

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) Thomas Sankara		9
2	French (fr) Thomas Sankara		5
3	Russian (ru) Санкара, Тома		4
4	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·桑卡拉		4
5	Spanish (es) Thomas Sankara		3
6	Bulgarian (bg) Тома Санкара		2
7	Basque (eu) Thomas Sankara		2
8	Swedish (sv) Thomas Sankara		2
9	Estonian (et) Thomas Sankara		1
10	Galician (gl) Thomas Sankara		1

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

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