Alien (movie)

Quality:

Alien - 1979 film by Ridley Scott. This film is the 43^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 176^th most popular film in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Alien (movie)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 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 7483^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 176^th most popular in films in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1693^rd most popular in all topics.

The 2789^th most popular in AI.

The 43^rd most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7078^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3186^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5471^st most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Alien (movie)”, its content was written by 28 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7483^rd place) and edited by 4567 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2789^th place).

Alien is on the 176^th place in local ranking of films in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 43^rd place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 67 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7738 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #540 in June 2020
• Global: #425 in May 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1542 in June 2024
• Global: #66 in June 2012

There are 48 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) Alien (film)		100
2	Malay (ms) Alien (filem)		100
3	Spanish (es) Alien: el octavo pasajero		95
4	French (fr) Alien (film)		93
5	Norwegian (no) Alien – den 8. passasjeren		92.1412
6	Russian (ru) Чужой (фильм)		83.1493
7	Catalan (ca) Alien		77.0385
8	Portuguese (pt) Alien, o Oitavo Passageiro		73.5435
9	Japanese (ja) エイリアン (映画)		72.6636
10	Italian (it) Alien		68.8643

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alien (film)		34 747 204
2	Russian (ru) Чужой (фильм)		6 269 473
3	German (de) Alien – Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt		5 218 253
4	Japanese (ja) エイリアン (映画)		4 902 276
5	Spanish (es) Alien: el octavo pasajero		4 862 385
6	French (fr) Alien (film)		4 417 378
7	Italian (it) Alien		3 698 590
8	Chinese (zh) 異形 (電影)		1 618 543
9	Portuguese (pt) Alien, o Oitavo Passageiro		1 524 528
10	Polish (pl) Obcy – ósmy pasażer Nostromo		1 034 397

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) Alien (film)		123 732
2	Russian (ru) Чужой (фильм)		22 134
3	Japanese (ja) エイリアン (映画)		17 818
4	Italian (it) Alien		12 744
5	French (fr) Alien (film)		10 883
6	German (de) Alien – Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt		10 438
7	Spanish (es) Alien: el octavo pasajero		9 573
8	Polish (pl) Obcy – ósmy pasażer Nostromo		4 126
9	Chinese (zh) 異形 (電影)		3 785
10	Portuguese (pt) Alien, o Oitavo Passageiro		2 565

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alien (film)		1 467
2	French (fr) Alien (film)		418
3	German (de) Alien – Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt		348
4	Italian (it) Alien		292
5	Spanish (es) Alien: el octavo pasajero		255
6	Russian (ru) Чужой (фильм)		251
7	Japanese (ja) エイリアン (映画)		195
8	Dutch (nl) Alien (film)		106
9	Hungarian (hu) A nyolcadik utas: a Halál		96
10	Polish (pl) Obcy – ósmy pasażer Nostromo		94

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) Alien (film)		9
2	German (de) Alien – Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt		5
3	Spanish (es) Alien: el octavo pasajero		2
4	Italian (it) Alien		2
5	Russian (ru) Чужой (фильм)		2
6	Serbian (sr) Осми путник (филм)		2
7	Chinese (zh) 異形 (電影)		2
8	Czech (cs) Vetřelec (film)		1
9	Galician (gl) Alien (filme)		1
10	Norwegian (no) Alien – den 8. passasjeren		1

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

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