Assassination

Quality:

Assassination - murder of a prominent person. Article “Assassination” in Simple English Wikipedia has 78.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 40 references and 9 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 6455^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5829^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7441^st most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Assassination”, its content was written by 33 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5829^th place) and edited by 2969 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7441^st place).

The article is cited 462 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5529^th place) and cited 18919 times in all languages (9145^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #67 in July 2023
• Global: #162 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1386 in April 2025
• Global: #3309 in July 2022

There are 44 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	English (en) Assassination		92.9639
2	Korean (ko) 암살		87.0707
3	Portuguese (pt) Magnicídio		82.1211
4	Czech (cs) Atentát		79.7856
5	Simple English (simple) Assassination		78.0552
6	Arabic (ar) اغتيال		48.9037
7	Persian (fa) ترور		48.0619
8	Slovak (sk) Atentát		39.4748
9	Catalan (ca) Magnicidi		38.6484
10	Hindi (hi) हत्या (एसासिनेशन)		35.2316

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Assassination		13 862 958
2	Spanish (es) Magnicidio		2 207 871
3	Japanese (ja) 暗殺		2 170 382
4	German (de) Attentat		941 144
5	Arabic (ar) اغتيال		886 656
6	Persian (fa) ترور		560 887
7	Chinese (zh) 刺杀		531 645
8	Turkish (tr) Suikast		273 228
9	Polish (pl) Zamach		197 201
10	Vietnamese (vi) Ám sát		155 870

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) Assassination		62 618
2	Persian (fa) ترور		7 317
3	Japanese (ja) 暗殺		5 281
4	Spanish (es) Magnicidio		3 363
5	Chinese (zh) 刺杀		2 713
6	German (de) Attentat		2 401
7	Turkish (tr) Suikast		1 861
8	Russian (ru) Аттентат		575
9	Polish (pl) Zamach		527
10	Italian (it) Magnicidio		454

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Assassination		1 292
2	German (de) Attentat		259
3	Japanese (ja) 暗殺		247
4	Spanish (es) Magnicidio		172
5	Arabic (ar) اغتيال		91
6	Chinese (zh) 刺杀		76
7	Persian (fa) ترور		70
8	Finnish (fi) Salamurha		60
9	Vietnamese (vi) Ám sát		55
10	Korean (ko) 암살		54

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) Assassination		3
2	Azerbaijani (az) Sui-qəsd		2
3	Czech (cs) Atentát		2
4	Persian (fa) ترور		2
5	Arabic (ar) اغتيال		1
6	Spanish (es) Magnicidio		1
7	Basque (eu) Magnizidio		1
8	Korean (ko) 암살		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Атентат		1
10	Catalan (ca) Magnicidi		0

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

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