Salman Rushdie

Quality:

Salman Rushdie - Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947). This person is the 1304^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Salman Rushdie” in Polish Wikipedia has 68.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 76 references and 19 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Polish Wikipedia:

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The 8397^th most editable in Polish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4350^th most popular in all topics.

The 2883^rd most popular in AI.

The 1304^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Polish Wikipedia:

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The 8410^th most popular in Polish Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2084^th most editable in Polish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2912^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3199^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Salman Rushdie” was edited by 3 authors in Polish Wikipedia (2084^th place) and written by 36 authors in all languages (3199^th place).

Since the creation of article “Salman Rushdie”, its content was written by 89 registered users of Polish Wikipedia (8397^th place) and edited by 4522 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2883^rd place).

Salman Rushdie is on the 1304^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 96 times in Polish Wikipedia and cited 6623 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Polish): #1397 in July 2013
• Global: #5 in August 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Polish): #129 in August 2022
• Global: #3 in August 2022

There are 52 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) Salman Rushdie		93.707
2	Basque (eu) Salman Rushdie		92.5
3	Hindi (hi) सलमान रुश्दी		83.2107
4	German (de) Salman Rushdie		72.2034
5	Polish (pl) Salman Rushdie		68.5051
6	Persian (fa) سلمان رشدی		64.9072
7	French (fr) Salman Rushdie		58.4443
8	Simple English (simple) Salman Rushdie		55.2401
9	Finnish (fi) Salman Rushdie		51.791
10	Croatian (hr) Salman Rushdie		51.2216

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Salman Rushdie		28 439 542
2	French (fr) Salman Rushdie		2 256 913
3	Persian (fa) سلمان رشدی		2 130 309
4	German (de) Salman Rushdie		2 106 908
5	Spanish (es) Salman Rushdie		1 145 640
6	Russian (ru) Рушди, Салман		1 127 398
7	Arabic (ar) سلمان رشدي		969 888
8	Italian (it) Salman Rushdie		876 091
9	Japanese (ja) サルマン・ラシュディ		570 801
10	Polish (pl) Salman Rushdie		488 969

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) Salman Rushdie		160 942
2	German (de) Salman Rushdie		12 063
3	Italian (it) Salman Rushdie		9 806
4	French (fr) Salman Rushdie		9 449
5	Russian (ru) Рушди, Салман		7 001
6	Persian (fa) سلمان رشدی		5 455
7	Japanese (ja) サルマン・ラシュディ		4 952
8	Spanish (es) Salman Rushdie		4 680
9	Chinese (zh) 薩爾曼·魯西迪		4 039
10	Portuguese (pt) Salman Rushdie		3 564

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Salman Rushdie		1 628
2	German (de) Salman Rushdie		324
3	French (fr) Salman Rushdie		296
4	Persian (fa) سلمان رشدی		170
5	Russian (ru) Рушди, Салман		146
6	Italian (it) Salman Rushdie		142
7	Spanish (es) Salman Rushdie		122
8	Dutch (nl) Salman Rushdie		121
9	Hebrew (he) סלמאן רושדי		110
10	Arabic (ar) سلمان رشدي		97

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) Salman Rushdie		19
2	Spanish (es) Salman Rushdie		3
3	Polish (pl) Salman Rushdie		3
4	Catalan (ca) Salman Rushdie		2
5	Portuguese (pt) Salman Rushdie		2
6	Russian (ru) Рушди, Салман		2
7	Swedish (sv) Salman Rushdie		2
8	German (de) Salman Rushdie		1
9	Japanese (ja) サルマン・ラシュディ		1
10	Dutch (nl) Salman Rushdie		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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information