Hefaistion

Quality:

Hephaestion - Macedonian nobleman and general, best friend of Alexander the Great (c. 356–324 BC). Article “Hefaistion” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 12.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Hefaistion”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 1101 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 1528 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #2091 in August 2006
• Global: #7754 in October 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #11743 in February 2024
• Global: #4687 in February 2024

There are 33 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	Chinese (zh) 赫费斯提翁		99.7995
2	English (en) Hephaestion		96.6201
3	German (de) Hephaistion		72.6706
4	Italian (it) Efestione		71.3895
5	French (fr) Héphestion		59.0679
6	Hebrew (he) הפאיסטיון		58.9409
7	Thai (th) เฮฟีสเทียน		37.6539
8	Turkish (tr) Hefaestion		37.3559
9	Greek (el) Ηφαιστίωνας		30.4408
10	Esperanto (eo) Hefestiono		27.4369

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hephaestion		3 825 189
2	Spanish (es) Hefestión		802 520
3	Russian (ru) Гефестион		780 916
4	Italian (it) Efestione		492 540
5	French (fr) Héphestion		443 200
6	Japanese (ja) ヘファイスティオン		426 683
7	German (de) Hephaistion		371 736
8	Greek (el) Ηφαιστίωνας		288 307
9	Portuguese (pt) Heféstio		195 759
10	Chinese (zh) 赫费斯提翁		182 395

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) Hephaestion		24 167
2	Italian (it) Efestione		4 271
3	Japanese (ja) ヘファイスティオン		3 737
4	Spanish (es) Hefestión		3 609
5	French (fr) Héphestion		2 974
6	Russian (ru) Гефестион		2 783
7	German (de) Hephaistion		2 190
8	Chinese (zh) 赫费斯提翁		1 114
9	Portuguese (pt) Heféstio		868
10	Greek (el) Ηφαιστίωνας		590

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hephaestion		233
2	German (de) Hephaistion		138
3	French (fr) Héphestion		96
4	Italian (it) Efestione		92
5	Spanish (es) Hefestión		64
6	Dutch (nl) Hephaestion		59
7	Russian (ru) Гефестион		52
8	Greek (el) Ηφαιστίωνας		44
9	Hebrew (he) הפאיסטיון		43
10	Chinese (zh) 赫费斯提翁		28

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	Bulgarian (bg) Хефестион		1
2	German (de) Hephaistion		1
3	Hebrew (he) הפאיסטיון		1
4	Turkish (tr) Hefaestion		1
5	Arabic (ar) هيفايستيون		0
6	Catalan (ca) Hefestió de Pel·la		0
7	Czech (cs) Hefaistión		0
8	Danish (da) Hefaistion		0
9	Greek (el) Ηφαιστίωνας		0
10	English (en) Hephaestion		0

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

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