Apartheid

Quality:

Apartheid - system of racial segregation and oppression based on skin colour in South Africa, introduced in 1948 and abolished in the years 1991 to 1994. Article "Apartheid" in Simple English Wikipedia has 50.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 14 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 85th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 210th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 996th most popular in all topics.
The 867th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 238th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
The 610th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 2623rd most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 2934th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Apartheid" was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (610th place) and written by 43 authors in all languages (2934th place).

Since the creation of article "Apartheid", its content was written by 154 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (210th place) and edited by 6560 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (867th place).

The article is cited 248 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 29952 times in all languages (5288th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #7 in May 2016
  • Global: #48 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #22 in September 2016
  • Global: #13 in December 2013

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 August 1, 2024 (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
1Chinese (zh)
南非種族隔離
92.2958
2French (fr)
Apartheid
91.6932
3Greek (el)
Απαρτχάιντ
91.3768
4Esperanto (eo)
Apartismo
91.3217
5English (en)
Apartheid
88.2529
6Finnish (fi)
Apartheid
86.1209
7German (de)
Apartheid
81.2809
8Dutch (nl)
Apartheid in Zuid-Afrika
70.8015
9Ukrainian (uk)
Апартеїд
69.7709
10Portuguese (pt)
Apartheid
69.5969
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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 "Apartheid" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Apartheid
36 288 951
2Spanish (es)
Apartheid
8 986 106
3Portuguese (pt)
Apartheid
5 872 146
4French (fr)
Apartheid
5 538 436
5German (de)
Apartheid
5 101 351
6Russian (ru)
Апартеид
4 626 651
7Italian (it)
Apartheid
3 750 570
8Japanese (ja)
アパルトヘイト
3 341 323
9Polish (pl)
Apartheid
2 090 797
10Simple English (simple)
Apartheid
1 401 209
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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 July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Apartheid" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Apartheid
148 888
2Russian (ru)
Апартеид
21 915
3Spanish (es)
Apartheid
21 059
4German (de)
Apartheid
14 673
5French (fr)
Apartheid
10 004
6Japanese (ja)
アパルトヘイト
9 498
7Italian (it)
Apartheid
7 946
8Polish (pl)
Apartheid
7 093
9Persian (fa)
آپارتاید
6 874
10Portuguese (pt)
Apartheid
6 743
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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 "Apartheid" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Apartheid
2 224
2German (de)
Apartheid
501
3French (fr)
Apartheid
348
4Italian (it)
Apartheid
300
5Spanish (es)
Apartheid
295
6Russian (ru)
Апартеид
219
7Dutch (nl)
Apartheid in Zuid-Afrika
217
8Portuguese (pt)
Apartheid
200
9Japanese (ja)
アパルトヘイト
179
10Hebrew (he)
אפרטהייד
158
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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 July 2024

Language versions of the article "Apartheid" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Apartheid
18
2French (fr)
Apartheid
4
3Korean (ko)
아파르트헤이트
3
4Russian (ru)
Апартеид
3
5Simple English (simple)
Apartheid
3
6Czech (cs)
Apartheid
2
7Arabic (ar)
الفصل العنصري في جنوب إفريقيا
1
8Belarusian (be)
Апартэід
1
9Danish (da)
Apartheid
1
10German (de)
Apartheid
1
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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 "Apartheid" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Apartheid
8 131
2French (fr)
Apartheid
2 482
3German (de)
Apartheid
2 140
4Spanish (es)
Apartheid
1 333
5Russian (ru)
Апартеид
1 272
6Portuguese (pt)
Apartheid
1 081
7Italian (it)
Apartheid
1 020
8Dutch (nl)
Apartheid in Zuid-Afrika
979
9Japanese (ja)
アパルトヘイト
860
10Chinese (zh)
南非種族隔離
773
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الفصل العنصري في جنوب إفريقيا
azAzerbaijani
Aparteid
beBelarusian
Апартэід
bgBulgarian
Апартейд
caCatalan
Apartheid
csCzech
Apartheid
daDanish
Apartheid
deGerman
Apartheid
elGreek
Απαρτχάιντ
enEnglish
Apartheid
eoEsperanto
Apartismo
esSpanish
Apartheid
etEstonian
Apartheid
euBasque
Apartheid
faPersian
آپارتاید
fiFinnish
Apartheid
frFrench
Apartheid
glGalician
Apartheid
heHebrew
אפרטהייד
hiHindi
रंगभेद नीति
hrCroatian
Apartheid
huHungarian
Apartheid
hyArmenian
Ապարտհեյդ
idIndonesian
Apartheid
itItalian
Apartheid
jaJapanese
アパルトヘイト
kaGeorgian
აპართეიდი
kkKazakh
Апартеид
koKorean
아파르트헤이트
laLatin
Apartheid
ltLithuanian
Apartheidas
msMalay
Aparteid
nlDutch
Apartheid in Zuid-Afrika
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Apartheid
noNorwegian
Apartheid
plPolish
Apartheid
ptPortuguese
Apartheid
roRomanian
Apartheid
ruRussian
Апартеид
shSerbo-Croatian
Apartheid
simpleSimple English
Apartheid
skSlovak
Aparteid
slSlovenian
Apartheid
srSerbian
Апартхејд
svSwedish
Apartheid
taTamil
தென்னாபிரிக்காவின் இனவொதுக்கல்
thThai
การถือผิว
trTurkish
Apartheid
ukUkrainian
Апартеїд
urUrdu
اپارتھائیڈ
uzUzbek
Aparteid
viVietnamese
Apartheid
zhChinese
南非種族隔離
zhminnanMin Nan
Lâm-hui Chióng-cho̍k Keh-lī

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#22
09.2016
Global:
#13
12.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#7
05.2016
Global:
#48
12.2013

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Apartheid from Wikipedia articles about Nelson Mandela, South Africa, Charlize Theron, Elon Musk and Internal resistance to South African apartheid. Whereas reading the article about Apartheid people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Nelson Mandela, Coloured, South Africa, Racial segregation and Bantustan.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

simple: Apartheid

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