Ashoka

Quality:

Ashoka - Mauryan emperor from 268 to 232 BCE. This person is the 1695^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 160^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Ashoka” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Tamil 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 1449^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2527^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 160^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5790^th most popular in all topics.

The 4851^st most popular in AI.

The 1695^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1805^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 5580^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9604^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5590^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ashoka” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5580^th place) and written by 28 authors in all languages (5590^th place).

Since the creation of article “Ashoka”, its content was written by 51 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2527^th place) and edited by 3594 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4851^st place).

Ashoka is on the 160^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1695^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 38 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12762 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #63 in January 2023
• Global: #168 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #263 in January 2022
• Global: #603 in June 2015

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	Tamil (ta) அசோகர்		100
2	Korean (ko) 아소카		100
3	English (en) Ashoka		95
4	Esperanto (eo) Aŝoko		79.6622
5	Basque (eu) Asoka		71.6612
6	Chinese (zh) 阿育王		63.7408
7	Czech (cs) Ašóka		62.4186
8	Spanish (es) Aśoka		58.1979
9	Catalan (ca) Aixoka		57.2562
10	Latin (la) Piodasses		56.614

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ashoka		24 827 460
2	Hindi (hi) अशोक		3 757 852
3	Thai (th) พระเจ้าอโศกมหาราช		1 367 717
4	Indonesian (id) Asoka		1 319 557
5	Japanese (ja) アショーカ		677 442
6	Russian (ru) Ашока		639 775
7	Spanish (es) Aśoka		610 067
8	Chinese (zh) 阿育王		557 887
9	German (de) Ashoka		533 890
10	French (fr) Ashoka		457 167

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) Ashoka		73 038
2	Hindi (hi) अशोक		10 399
3	Thai (th) พระเจ้าอโศกมหาราช		5 121
4	Japanese (ja) アショーカ		4 272
5	Chinese (zh) 阿育王		3 198
6	Russian (ru) Ашока		2 340
7	French (fr) Ashoka		2 192
8	Simple English (simple) Ashoka		2 092
9	German (de) Ashoka		1 942
10	Tamil (ta) அசோகர்		1 936

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ashoka		1 438
2	Hindi (hi) अशोक		176
3	French (fr) Ashoka		172
4	German (de) Ashoka		164
5	Italian (it) Aśoka		108
6	Russian (ru) Ашока		100
7	Vietnamese (vi) A-dục vương		88
8	Dutch (nl) Ashoka		84
9	Tamil (ta) அசோகர்		76
10	Japanese (ja) アショーカ		74

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) Ashoka		13
2	Korean (ko) 아소카		3
3	Hindi (hi) अशोक		2
4	Latin (la) Piodasses		2
5	Thai (th) พระเจ้าอโศกมหาราช		2
6	Turkish (tr) Büyük Asoka		2
7	French (fr) Ashoka		1
8	Italian (it) Aśoka		1
9	Simple English (simple) Ashoka		1
10	Urdu (ur) اشوک اعظم		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