Back to the Future

Quality:

Back to the Future - 1985 film directed by Robert Zemeckis. This film is the 39^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 261^st most popular film in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Back to the Future” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 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:

The 261^st most popular in films in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1473^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1841^st most popular in AI.

The 39^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3960^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7902^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Back to the Future”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 5236 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1841^st place).

Back to the Future is on the 261^st place in local ranking of films in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 39^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 52 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7985 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1074 in October 2014
• Global: #69 in October 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1844 in August 2023
• Global: #9 in October 2015

There are 50 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) Back to the Future		100
2	French (fr) Retour vers le futur		100
3	Chinese (zh) 回到未来		100
4	Hebrew (he) בחזרה לעתיד		100
5	Indonesian (id) Back to the Future		100
6	Spanish (es) Back to the Future		91.2769
7	Slovenian (sl) Nazaj v prihodnost		88.8889
8	Turkish (tr) Geleceğe Dönüş		86.4279
9	Hindi (hi) बैक टू द फ़्यूचर		83.2143
10	German (de) Zurück in die Zukunft (Film)		80.3664

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Back to the Future		32 809 836
2	Japanese (ja) バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー		12 166 461
3	Spanish (es) Back to the Future		7 314 968
4	Russian (ru) Назад в будущее		5 961 305
5	French (fr) Retour vers le futur		5 480 281
6	Italian (it) Ritorno al futuro		4 714 374
7	German (de) Zurück in die Zukunft (Film)		3 513 001
8	Portuguese (pt) Back to the Future		2 159 907
9	Chinese (zh) 回到未来		1 210 861
10	Turkish (tr) Geleceğe Dönüş		810 414

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) Back to the Future		90 051
2	Japanese (ja) バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー		26 855
3	French (fr) Retour vers le futur		11 669
4	Russian (ru) Назад в будущее		11 560
5	Spanish (es) Back to the Future		9 336
6	Italian (it) Ritorno al futuro		7 290
7	German (de) Zurück in die Zukunft (Film)		6 870
8	Chinese (zh) 回到未来		4 258
9	Portuguese (pt) Back to the Future		2 578
10	Polish (pl) Powrót do przyszłości		1 654

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Back to the Future		1 805
2	French (fr) Retour vers le futur		478
3	Spanish (es) Back to the Future		360
4	Japanese (ja) バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー		335
5	Italian (it) Ritorno al futuro		330
6	German (de) Zurück in die Zukunft (Film)		264
7	Russian (ru) Назад в будущее		247
8	Portuguese (pt) Back to the Future		151
9	Hebrew (he) בחזרה לעתיד		137
10	Hungarian (hu) Vissza a jövőbe (film)		95

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) Back to the Future		4
2	Hebrew (he) בחזרה לעתיד		4
3	Italian (it) Ritorno al futuro		2
4	Russian (ru) Назад в будущее		2
5	Turkish (tr) Geleceğe Dönüş		2
6	Arabic (ar) العودة إلى المستقبل		1
7	Catalan (ca) Retorn al futur		1
8	Croatian (hr) Povratak u budućnost		1
9	Japanese (ja) バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー		1
10	Lithuanian (lt) Atgal į ateitį		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 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