Back to the Future

Quality:

Back to the Future - 1985 film by Robert Zemeckis. This film is the 41^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 243^rd most popular film in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Back to the Future” in Simple English Wikipedia has 8.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 243^rd most popular in films in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1578^th most popular in all topics.

The 1926^th most popular in AI.

The 41^st most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3030^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7686^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Back to the Future”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 5089 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1926^th place).

Back to the Future is on the 243^rd place in local ranking of films in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 41^st place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 50 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7724 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1076 in October 2014
• Global: #69 in October 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1841 in August 2023
• Global: #14 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, 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) Back to the Future		100
2	French (fr) Retour vers le futur		97.4233
3	Spanish (es) Back to the Future		96.3235
4	Slovenian (sl) Nazaj v prihodnost		88.8889
5	Turkish (tr) Geleceğe Dönüş		86.1168
6	Hindi (hi) बैक टू द फ़्यूचर		83.2143
7	German (de) Zurück in die Zukunft (Film)		81.6924
8	Portuguese (pt) Back to the Future		71.7335
9	Russian (ru) Назад в будущее		65.4244
10	Italian (it) Ritorno al futuro		61.7944

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Back to the Future		31 110 306
2	Japanese (ja) バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー		11 694 295
3	Spanish (es) Back to the Future		7 110 043
4	French (fr) Retour vers le futur		5 279 519
5	Italian (it) Ritorno al futuro		4 527 136
6	German (de) Zurück in die Zukunft (Film)		3 335 270
7	Russian (ru) Назад в будущее		3 184 857
8	Portuguese (pt) Back to the Future		2 116 384
9	Chinese (zh) 回到未来		1 144 527
10	Turkish (tr) Geleceğe Dönüş		788 702

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		117 764
2	Japanese (ja) バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー		28 927
3	Spanish (es) Back to the Future		16 242
4	Russian (ru) Назад в будущее		15 876
5	French (fr) Retour vers le futur		12 709
6	Italian (it) Ritorno al futuro		10 086
7	German (de) Zurück in die Zukunft (Film)		8 251
8	Chinese (zh) 回到未来		5 544
9	Polish (pl) Powrót do przyszłości		3 841
10	Portuguese (pt) Back to the Future		2 872

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		1 749
2	French (fr) Retour vers le futur		464
3	Spanish (es) Back to the Future		352
4	Japanese (ja) バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー		327
5	Italian (it) Ritorno al futuro		323
6	German (de) Zurück in die Zukunft (Film)		261
7	Russian (ru) Назад в будущее		240
8	Portuguese (pt) Back to the Future		148
9	Hebrew (he) בחזרה לעתיד		127
10	Hungarian (hu) Vissza a jövőbe (film)		94

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		7
2	French (fr) Retour vers le futur		4
3	Spanish (es) Back to the Future		2
4	Italian (it) Ritorno al futuro		2
5	German (de) Zurück in die Zukunft (Film)		1
6	Galician (gl) Back to the Future		1
7	Hebrew (he) בחזרה לעתיד		1
8	Indonesian (id) Back to the Future		1
9	Japanese (ja) バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー		1
10	Korean (ko) 백 투 더 퓨처		1

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

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