Ali

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Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib - 4th Rashidun Caliph (r. 656–661) and first Shia Imam. This person is the 751^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 962^nd most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Ali” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7156^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4519^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 962^nd most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2365^th most popular in all topics.

The 1338^th most popular in AI.

The 751^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8141^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1520^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2549^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Ali”, its content was written by 37 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4519^th place) and edited by 5772 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1338^th place).

Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib is on the 962^nd place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 751^st place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 108 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 23753 times in all languages (6914^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #242 in October 2007
• Global: #324 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1135 in July 2024
• Global: #564 in March 2025

There are 54 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) Ali		100
2	Arabic (ar) علي بن أبي طالب		100
3	Persian (fa) علی		100
4	Indonesian (id) Ali bin Abi Thalib		100
5	Hindi (hi) अली इब्न अबी तालिब		100
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Ali		100
7	Swedish (sv) Ali ibn Abi Talib		97.6779
8	Urdu (ur) علی ابن ابی طالب		96.1538
9	Chinese (zh) 阿里·本·阿比·塔利卜		93.1563
10	Portuguese (pt) Ali		90.3199

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ali		19 101 819
2	Arabic (ar) علي بن أبي طالب		14 920 574
3	Persian (fa) علی		5 868 360
4	Turkish (tr) Ali		3 858 085
5	Indonesian (id) Ali bin Abi Thalib		3 695 706
6	Russian (ru) Али ибн Абу Талиб		2 332 723
7	French (fr) Ali ibn Abi Talib		2 078 144
8	German (de) ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib		1 375 162
9	Spanish (es) Alí Ibn Abi Tálib		814 657
10	Urdu (ur) علی ابن ابی طالب		725 578

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) Ali		143 575
2	Arabic (ar) علي بن أبي طالب		57 090
3	Persian (fa) علی		26 094
4	Turkish (tr) Ali		22 230
5	Russian (ru) Али ибн Абу Талиб		18 486
6	French (fr) Ali ibn Abi Talib		11 748
7	Indonesian (id) Ali bin Abi Thalib		9 575
8	Spanish (es) Alí Ibn Abi Tálib		7 796
9	German (de) ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib		6 523
10	Chinese (zh) 阿里·本·阿比·塔利卜		5 672

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ali		1 647
2	Persian (fa) علی		546
3	Arabic (ar) علي بن أبي طالب		384
4	Turkish (tr) Ali		319
5	French (fr) Ali ibn Abi Talib		294
6	German (de) ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib		282
7	Russian (ru) Али ибн Абу Талиб		209
8	Dutch (nl) Ali ibn Aboe Talib		143
9	Italian (it) ʿAlī ibn ʾAbī Ṭālib		135
10	Spanish (es) Alí Ibn Abi Tálib		118

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) Ali		9
2	Arabic (ar) علي بن أبي طالب		6
3	Indonesian (id) Ali bin Abi Thalib		3
4	Russian (ru) Али ибн Абу Талиб		3
5	Azerbaijani (az) Əli		2
6	Persian (fa) علی		2
7	French (fr) Ali ibn Abi Talib		2
8	Urdu (ur) علی ابن ابی طالب		2
9	Chinese (zh) 阿里·本·阿比·塔利卜		2
10	Bulgarian (bg) Али ибн Аби Талиб		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