Axis of Evil

Quality:

Axis of evil - group of countries identified collectively as enemies by U.S. President George W. Bush during the 2000s. Article “Axis of Evil” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Axis of Evil”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1865 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3320 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1342 in October 2009
• Global: #222 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1518 in May 2026
• Global: #17057 in January 2008

There are 36 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) Axis of evil		55.0532
2	Arabic (ar) محور الشر		39.0077
3	Persian (fa) محور شرارت		34.3304
4	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		30.5487
5	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		26.8095
6	Portuguese (pt) Eixo do mal		26.1818
7	German (de) Achse des Bösen		26.0334
8	Dutch (nl) As van het kwaad		25.7064
9	Catalan (ca) Eix del Mal		24.7155
10	Greek (el) Άξονας του Κακού		21.9621

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Axis of evil		4 246 643
2	Japanese (ja) 悪の枢軸		628 255
3	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		583 106
4	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		536 176
5	German (de) Achse des Bösen		455 516
6	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		378 939
7	French (fr) Axe du Mal		293 330
8	Portuguese (pt) Eixo do mal		269 958
9	Italian (it) Asse del male		140 625
10	Persian (fa) محور شرارت		132 834

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) Axis of evil		7 361
2	Japanese (ja) 悪の枢軸		1 512
3	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		1 386
4	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		1 348
5	Persian (fa) محور شرارت		1 096
6	German (de) Achse des Bösen		625
7	French (fr) Axe du Mal		484
8	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		478
9	Italian (it) Asse del male		334
10	Portuguese (pt) Eixo do mal		240

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Axis of evil		688
2	German (de) Achse des Bösen		160
3	French (fr) Axe du Mal		100
4	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		93
5	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		90
6	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		86
7	Japanese (ja) 悪の枢軸		70
8	Hebrew (he) ציר הרשע		62
9	Dutch (nl) As van het kwaad		54
10	Italian (it) Asse del male		46

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	Arabic (ar) محور الشر		1
2	Azerbaijani (az) Şər oxu		1
3	English (en) Axis of evil		1
4	French (fr) Axe du Mal		1
5	Belarusian (be) Вось зла		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Ос на злото		0
7	Catalan (ca) Eix del Mal		0
8	Czech (cs) Osa zla		0
9	Danish (da) Ondskabens akse		0
10	German (de) Achse des Bösen		0

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

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