Black people

Quality:

Black people - a racialized 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 58.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 3982^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 93^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2617^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 824^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 5640^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Black people” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5640^th place) and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Black people”, its content was written by 214 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (93^rd place) and edited by 4654 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2617^th place).

The article is cited 245 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14854 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in June 2021
• Global: #375 in July 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #225 in November 2024
• Global: #2371 in June 2020

There are 29 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	Arabic (ar) عرق أسود		94.5201
2	English (en) Black people		93.695
3	German (de) Schwarze		92.381
4	Simple English (simple) Black people		58.4081
5	French (fr) Noir (humain)		56.5507
6	Hungarian (hu) Négerek		54.3329
7	Tamil (ta) கறுப்பின மக்கள்		50.8685
8	Portuguese (pt) Negros		46.0871
9	Latin (la) Nigricolores		39.727
10	Russian (ru) Чёрные (расовая классификация)		35.9123

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black people		14 013 035
2	Spanish (es) Negro (persona)		3 126 260
3	Portuguese (pt) Negros		2 326 002
4	German (de) Schwarze		1 187 571
5	French (fr) Noir (humain)		1 040 164
6	Chinese (zh) 黑人		1 039 855
7	Japanese (ja) 黒人		1 037 821
8	Turkish (tr) Siyahiler		813 726
9	Persian (fa) سیاه‌پوست		493 365
10	Arabic (ar) عرق أسود		462 042

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		40 512
2	German (de) Schwarze		5 535
3	Spanish (es) Negro (persona)		4 650
4	Chinese (zh) 黑人		3 839
5	Simple English (simple) Black people		3 339
6	Turkish (tr) Siyahiler		3 153
7	Japanese (ja) 黒人		3 031
8	Russian (ru) Чёрные (расовая классификация)		2 400
9	Portuguese (pt) Negros		2 021
10	French (fr) Noir (humain)		2 011

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		1 716
2	German (de) Schwarze		804
3	Spanish (es) Negro (persona)		372
4	French (fr) Noir (humain)		279
5	Portuguese (pt) Negros		254
6	Simple English (simple) Black people		214
7	Hebrew (he) האדם השחור		133
8	Chinese (zh) 黑人		109
9	Dutch (nl) Zwarten		97
10	Hungarian (hu) Négerek		88

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	Greek (el) Μαύρη φυλή		2
2	English (en) Black people		2
3	Esperanto (eo) Nigrulo		2
4	Hungarian (hu) Négerek		2
5	Turkish (tr) Siyahiler		2
6	Persian (fa) سیاه‌پوست		1
7	French (fr) Noir (humain)		1
8	Italian (it) Nero (antropologia)		1
9	Simple English (simple) Black people		1
10	Arabic (ar) عرق أسود		0

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

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