先祖

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先祖

Quality:

Ancestor - person from whom another person is descended. Article “先祖” in Japanese Wikipedia has 3.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.17 points.

This article has the best quality in Simple English Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “先祖”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 737 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 325 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 6393 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Japanese): #14600 in May 2012
  • Global: #9857 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Japanese): #79931 in August 2012
  • Global: #37744 in October 2013

There are 34 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Simple English (simple)
Ancestor
35.769
2Italian (it)
Antenato
34.7029
3Malay (ms)
Leluhur
27.884
4Catalan (ca)
Ancestre
27.0237
5Esperanto (eo)
Praulo
26.479
6Persian (fa)
نیاکان
26.3427
7Ukrainian (uk)
Предок
25.4489
8Croatian (hr)
Predak
25.3859
9Tamil (ta)
மூதாதை
25.1719
10Russian (ru)
Предок
25.1037
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "先祖" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ancestor
2 406 973
2Spanish (es)
Ancestro
878 378
3Polish (pl)
Wstępny
689 565
4Portuguese (pt)
Antepassado
469 334
5German (de)
Vorfahr
333 043
6Japanese (ja)
先祖
248 968
7Indonesian (id)
Leluhur
189 068
8Chinese (zh)
祖先
174 188
9French (fr)
Ancêtre
165 567
10Russian (ru)
Предок
151 993
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "先祖" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Ancestor
6 087
2Chinese (zh)
祖先
1 197
3Spanish (es)
Ancestro
888
4French (fr)
Ancêtre
654
5German (de)
Vorfahr
626
6Portuguese (pt)
Antepassado
605
7Korean (ko)
조상
592
8Simple English (simple)
Ancestor
564
9Japanese (ja)
先祖
500
10Russian (ru)
Предок
487
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "先祖" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Ancestor
216
2German (de)
Vorfahr
72
3Spanish (es)
Ancestro
46
4Russian (ru)
Предок
34
5Hebrew (he)
אדם הראשון
33
6French (fr)
Ancêtre
31
7Hindi (hi)
पूर्वज
28
8Chinese (zh)
祖先
27
9Portuguese (pt)
Antepassado
25
10Simple English (simple)
Ancestor
19
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "先祖" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Italian (it)
Antenato
1
2Malay (ms)
Leluhur
1
3Chinese (zh)
祖先
1
4Arabic (ar)
سلف (أصل)
0
5Azerbaijani (az)
Əcdad
0
6Catalan (ca)
Ancestre
0
7Czech (cs)
Rodinný původ
0
8German (de)
Vorfahr
0
9English (en)
Ancestor
0
10Esperanto (eo)
Praulo
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "先祖" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Ancestor
1 118
2Simple English (simple)
Ancestor
487
3Chinese (zh)
祖先
487
4Portuguese (pt)
Antepassado
421
5Dutch (nl)
Voorouder
377
6German (de)
Vorfahr
345
7Korean (ko)
조상
328
8Japanese (ja)
先祖
325
9Indonesian (id)
Leluhur
274
10Spanish (es)
Ancestro
249
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Japanese:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
Japanese:
Global:
Popularity in all years:
Japanese:
Global:
Authors in June 2025:
Japanese:
Global:
Registered authors in all years:
Japanese:
Global:
Citations:
Japanese:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
سلف (أصل)
azAzerbaijani
Əcdad
caCatalan
Ancestre
csCzech
Rodinný původ
deGerman
Vorfahr
enEnglish
Ancestor
eoEsperanto
Praulo
esSpanish
Ancestro
euBasque
Arbaso
faPersian
نیاکان
frFrench
Ancêtre
heHebrew
אדם הראשון
hiHindi
पूर्वज
hrCroatian
Predak
idIndonesian
Leluhur
itItalian
Antenato
jaJapanese
先祖
koKorean
조상
msMalay
Leluhur
nlDutch
Voorouder
plPolish
Wstępny
ptPortuguese
Antepassado
ruRussian
Предок
simpleSimple English
Ancestor
slSlovenian
Prednik
srSerbian
Предак
svSwedish
Förfäder
taTamil
மூதாதை
thThai
บรรพบุรุษ
ukUkrainian
Предок
urUrdu
آبا ؤ اجداد
viVietnamese
Tổ tiên
zhChinese
祖先
zhminnanMin Nan
Chó͘-sian

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Japanese:
#79931
08.2012
Global:
#37744
10.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank Japanese:
#14600
05.2012
Global:
#9857
05.2012

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Ancestor from Wikipedia articles about Ethnicity, Family tree, Pan-Africanism, Homo and Kinship. Whereas reading the article about Ancestor people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Grandparent, Antecedent, Parent, Descendant and Seonjo of Joseon.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 先祖
zh: 祖先
ko: 조상
simple: Ancestor
eu: Arbaso
hr: Predak
eo: Praulo
zhminnan: Chó͘-sian
az: Əcdad

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