Apartheid

Quality:

Apartheid - system of racial segregation and oppression in South Africa, introduced in 1948 by D.F. Malan and abolished between 1990 and 1994 by F.W. de Klerk. Article “Apartheid” in Simple English Wikipedia has 52 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 26 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 90^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 202^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1159^th most popular in all topics.

The 846^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 883^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2194^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3026^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4472^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Apartheid” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2194^th place) and written by 31 authors in all languages (4472^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Apartheid”, its content was written by 165 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (202^nd place) and edited by 6855 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (846^th place).

The article is cited 279 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 32436 times in all languages (5232^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3 in October 2025
• 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 July 1, 2026 (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	French (fr) Apartheid		91.7804
2	Greek (el) Απαρτχάιντ		90.6476
3	Esperanto (eo) Apartismo		88.8074
4	Finnish (fi) Apartheid		85.9167
5	German (de) Apartheid		80.4927
6	English (en) Apartheid		79.3657
7	Chinese (zh) 南非種族隔離		78.3726
8	Dutch (nl) Apartheid in Zuid-Afrika		69.8297
9	Portuguese (pt) Apartheid		69.6231
10	Latin (la) Apartheid		62.3968

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Apartheid		33 774 760
2	Spanish (es) Apartheid		9 319 721
3	Portuguese (pt) Apartheid		6 002 118
4	French (fr) Apartheid		5 813 530
5	German (de) Apartheid		5 412 822
6	Russian (ru) Апартеид		5 325 322
7	Italian (it) Apartheid		3 935 384
8	Japanese (ja) アパルトヘイト		3 534 176
9	Polish (pl) Apartheid		2 292 714
10	Simple English (simple) Apartheid		1 452 592

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) Apartheid		108 592
2	Russian (ru) Апартеид		16 120
3	Spanish (es) Apartheid		13 890
4	German (de) Apartheid		11 895
5	Japanese (ja) アパルトヘイト		11 735
6	French (fr) Apartheid		9 646
7	Italian (it) Apartheid		7 061
8	Polish (pl) Apartheid		6 869
9	Portuguese (pt) Apartheid		4 365
10	Chinese (zh) 南非種族隔離		3 260

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Apartheid		2 338
2	German (de) Apartheid		515
3	French (fr) Apartheid		377
4	Spanish (es) Apartheid		311
5	Italian (it) Apartheid		309
6	Russian (ru) Апартеид		251
7	Dutch (nl) Apartheid in Zuid-Afrika		224
8	Portuguese (pt) Apartheid		207
9	Japanese (ja) アパルトヘイト		185
10	Simple English (simple) Apartheid		165

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	German (de) Apartheid		6
2	Russian (ru) Апартеид		5
3	English (en) Apartheid		3
4	Azerbaijani (az) Aparteid		2
5	French (fr) Apartheid		2
6	Armenian (hy) Ապարտհեյդ		2
7	Dutch (nl) Apartheid in Zuid-Afrika		2
8	Serbian (sr) Апартхејд		2
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lâm-hui Chióng-cho̍k Keh-lī		2
10	Basque (eu) Apartheid		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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information