Black people

Quality:

Black people - skin color-based classification of people with origins in the tropical climate zone of Africa and Melanesia. Article “Black people” in Simple English Wikipedia has 54.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 16 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in Arabic Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4420^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 86^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2409^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 237^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 50^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2808^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Black people” was edited by 7 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (50^th place) and written by 39 authors in all languages (2808^th place).

Since the creation of article “Black people”, its content was written by 226 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (86^th place) and edited by 4804 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2409^th place).

The article is cited 255 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16090 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in June 2021
• Global: #308 in July 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #214 in November 2024
• Global: #2353 in June 2020

There are 31 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	Arabic (ar) عرق أسود		94.4728
2	English (en) Black people		92.4103
3	German (de) Schwarze		92.381
4	French (fr) Noir (humain)		56.4669
5	Hungarian (hu) Négerek		54.372
6	Simple English (simple) Black people		54.2438
7	Tamil (ta) கறுப்பின மக்கள்		50.812
8	Portuguese (pt) Negros		47.59
9	Spanish (es) Negro (persona)		42.9736
10	Latin (la) Nigricolores		40.0584

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black people		14 330 859
2	Spanish (es) Negro (persona)		3 169 648
3	Portuguese (pt) Negros		2 361 936
4	German (de) Schwarze		1 226 780
5	Japanese (ja) 黒人		1 089 457
6	Chinese (zh) 黑人		1 080 172
7	French (fr) Noir (humain)		1 063 583
8	Turkish (tr) Siyahiler		846 830
9	Persian (fa) سیاه‌پوست		520 003
10	Arabic (ar) عرق أسود		473 476

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) Black people		28 871
2	Spanish (es) Negro (persona)		3 492
3	Japanese (ja) 黒人		3 293
4	Persian (fa) سیاه‌پوست		3 168
5	German (de) Schwarze		3 162
6	Chinese (zh) 黑人		2 816
7	Simple English (simple) Black people		2 424
8	Turkish (tr) Siyahiler		1 965
9	French (fr) Noir (humain)		1 880
10	Portuguese (pt) Negros		1 515

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black people		1 741
2	German (de) Schwarze		810
3	Spanish (es) Negro (persona)		375
4	French (fr) Noir (humain)		288
5	Portuguese (pt) Negros		257
6	Simple English (simple) Black people		226
7	Hebrew (he) האדם השחור		138
8	Chinese (zh) 黑人		113
9	Dutch (nl) Zwarten		102
10	Turkish (tr) Siyahiler		97

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	Simple English (simple) Black people		7
2	English (en) Black people		6
3	Turkish (tr) Siyahiler		5
4	Spanish (es) Negro (persona)		3
5	Japanese (ja) 黒人		3
6	Persian (fa) سیاه‌پوست		2
7	Hungarian (hu) Négerek		2
8	Dutch (nl) Zwarten		2
9	Portuguese (pt) Negros		2
10	Russian (ru) Чёрные (расовая классификация)		2

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