Ashoka

Quality:

Ashoka - Mauryan emperor from 268 to 232 BCE. This person is the 1770^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 159^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Ashoka” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Korean 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 1456^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2336^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 159^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5920^th most popular in all topics.

The 4845^th most popular in AI.

The 1770^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4906^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 3294^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Ashoka” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3294^th place) and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ashoka”, its content was written by 55 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2336^th place) and edited by 3649 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4845^th place).

Ashoka is on the 159^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1770^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 42 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13267 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #63 in January 2023
• Global: #231 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #262 in January 2022
• Global: #608 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, 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	Korean (ko) 아소카		100
2	Tamil (ta) அசோகர்		100
3	English (en) Ashoka		95
4	Esperanto (eo) Aŝoko		79.379
5	Basque (eu) Asoka		71.266
6	Chinese (zh) 阿育王		63.6542
7	Czech (cs) Ašóka		61.3161
8	Catalan (ca) Aixoca		58.0025
9	Latin (la) Piodasses		57.8709
10	Spanish (es) Aśoka		57.431

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ashoka		25 565 607
2	Hindi (hi) अशोक		3 882 886
3	Thai (th) พระเจ้าอโศกมหาราช		1 386 705
4	Indonesian (id) Asoka		1 330 741
5	Japanese (ja) アショーカ		721 222
6	Russian (ru) Ашока		712 990
7	Spanish (es) Aśoka		643 075
8	Chinese (zh) 阿育王		591 350
9	German (de) Ashoka		557 317
10	French (fr) Ashoka		489 507

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		50 528
2	Hindi (hi) अशोक		7 129
3	Japanese (ja) アショーカ		3 075
4	Chinese (zh) 阿育王		2 472
5	Thai (th) พระเจ้าอโศกมหาราช		1 797
6	Russian (ru) Ашока		1 732
7	French (fr) Ashoka		1 445
8	German (de) Ashoka		1 371
9	Spanish (es) Aśoka		1 350
10	Italian (it) Aśoka		753

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ashoka		1 480
2	French (fr) Ashoka		178
3	Hindi (hi) अशोक		176
4	German (de) Ashoka		164
5	Italian (it) Aśoka		110
6	Russian (ru) Ашока		100
7	Vietnamese (vi) A-dục vương		89
8	Dutch (nl) Ashoka		85
9	Japanese (ja) アショーカ		77
10	Chinese (zh) 阿育王		68

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		7
2	Bulgarian (bg) Ашока		1
3	Catalan (ca) Aixoca		1
4	Basque (eu) Asoka		1
5	Indonesian (id) Asoka		1
6	Simple English (simple) Ashoka		1
7	Serbian (sr) Ашока		1
8	Tamil (ta) அசோகர்		1
9	Turkish (tr) Büyük Asoka		1
10	Arabic (ar) أشوكا		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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