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 14.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 1824 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3130 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1341 in October 2009
• Global: #224 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8671 in March 2025
• Global: #16980 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, 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	English (en) Axis of evil		63.5724
2	Arabic (ar) محور الشر		39.2031
3	Persian (fa) محور شرارت		34.696
4	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		30.2294
5	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		27.2612
6	German (de) Achse des Bösen		26.4395
7	Portuguese (pt) Eixo do mal		26.2614
8	Dutch (nl) As van het kwaad		25.9054
9	Catalan (ca) Eix del Mal		24.7139
10	Greek (el) Άξονας του Κακού		21.8488

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Axis of evil		4 108 912
2	Japanese (ja) 悪の枢軸		603 924
3	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		539 364
4	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		526 151
5	German (de) Achse des Bösen		441 135
6	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		347 623
7	French (fr) Axe du Mal		284 871
8	Portuguese (pt) Eixo do mal		265 906
9	Italian (it) Asse del male		133 990
10	Persian (fa) محور شرارت		122 954

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		25 137
2	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		6 880
3	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		5 475
4	Japanese (ja) 悪の枢軸		3 135
5	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		2 252
6	German (de) Achse des Bösen		2 225
7	Hebrew (he) ציר הרשע		1 547
8	French (fr) Axe du Mal		1 304
9	Portuguese (pt) Eixo do mal		1 241
10	Persian (fa) محور شرارت		1 019

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		672
2	German (de) Achse des Bösen		157
3	French (fr) Axe du Mal		97
4	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		91
5	Spanish (es) Eje del mal		87
6	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		82
7	Japanese (ja) 悪の枢軸		69
8	Hebrew (he) ציר הרשע		59
9	Dutch (nl) As van het kwaad		53
10	Italian (it) Asse del male		45

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) Axis of evil		6
2	Czech (cs) Osa zla		2
3	German (de) Achse des Bösen		2
4	Italian (it) Asse del male		2
5	Arabic (ar) محور الشر		1
6	Russian (ru) Ось зла (политика)		1
7	Chinese (zh) 邪恶轴心		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Şər oxu		0
9	Belarusian (be) Вось зла		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Ос на злото		0

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

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