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Dictionary of National Biography

Quality:

Dictionary of National Biography - multi-volume reference work. This book is the 2403rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Dictionary of National Biography” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4 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.

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 2403rd most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Dictionary of National Biography”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 384 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Dictionary of National Biography is on the 2403rd place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 74 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 65560 times in all languages (2499th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #19920 in August 2023
  • Global: #31211 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #42604 in August 2023
  • Global: #39486 in August 2010

There are 21 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Dictionary of National Biography
39.5194
2German (de)
Dictionary of National Biography
32.323
3Ukrainian (uk)
Національний біографічний словник
25.8715
4Russian (ru)
Национальный биографический словарь
24.1682
5Japanese (ja)
英国人名事典
23.6447
6Polish (pl)
Dictionary of National Biography
17.7002
7Chinese (zh)
牛津國家人物傳記大辭典
13.8826
8Persian (fa)
فرهنگ زندگی‌نامه ملی
12.7208
9Catalan (ca)
Dictionary of National Biography
12.6934
10Korean (ko)
영국인명사전
12.057
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Dictionary of National Biography" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Dictionary of National Biography
2 061 084
2German (de)
Dictionary of National Biography
45 368
3French (fr)
Dictionary of National Biography
31 321
4Spanish (es)
Dictionary of National Biography
24 125
5Chinese (zh)
牛津國家人物傳記大辭典
17 732
6Italian (it)
Dictionary of National Biography
16 127
7Japanese (ja)
英国人名事典
14 816
8Polish (pl)
Dictionary of National Biography
14 351
9Norwegian (no)
Dictionary of National Biography
9 141
10Russian (ru)
Национальный биографический словарь
6 365
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Dictionary of National Biography" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Dictionary of National Biography
7 466
2German (de)
Dictionary of National Biography
139
3Chinese (zh)
牛津國家人物傳記大辭典
137
4Japanese (ja)
英国人名事典
119
5French (fr)
Dictionary of National Biography
69
6Spanish (es)
Dictionary of National Biography
58
7Russian (ru)
Национальный биографический словарь
50
8Arabic (ar)
قاموس السير الوطنية
46
9Portuguese (pt)
Dictionary of National Biography
42
10Korean (ko)
영국인명사전
36
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Dictionary of National Biography" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Dictionary of National Biography
187
2German (de)
Dictionary of National Biography
42
3French (fr)
Dictionary of National Biography
28
4Italian (it)
Dictionary of National Biography
22
5Norwegian (no)
Dictionary of National Biography
18
6Polish (pl)
Dictionary of National Biography
13
7Arabic (ar)
قاموس السير الوطنية
11
8Russian (ru)
Национальный биографический словарь
10
9Spanish (es)
Dictionary of National Biography
9
10Japanese (ja)
英国人名事典
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Dictionary of National Biography" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Dictionary of National Biography
2
2Arabic (ar)
قاموس السير الوطنية
1
3Catalan (ca)
Dictionary of National Biography
0
4German (de)
Dictionary of National Biography
0
5Spanish (es)
Dictionary of National Biography
0
6Persian (fa)
فرهنگ زندگی‌نامه ملی
0
7French (fr)
Dictionary of National Biography
0
8Indonesian (id)
Dictionary of National Biography
0
9Italian (it)
Dictionary of National Biography
0
10Japanese (ja)
英国人名事典
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Dictionary of National Biography" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Dictionary of National Biography
40 365
2Polish (pl)
Dictionary of National Biography
7 048
3German (de)
Dictionary of National Biography
4 382
4French (fr)
Dictionary of National Biography
3 920
5Russian (ru)
Национальный биографический словарь
2 071
6Japanese (ja)
英国人名事典
1 764
7Spanish (es)
Dictionary of National Biography
1 463
8Arabic (ar)
قاموس السير الوطنية
773
9Portuguese (pt)
Dictionary of National Biography
708
10Italian (it)
Dictionary of National Biography
534
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
قاموس السير الوطنية
caCatalan
Dictionary of National Biography
deGerman
Dictionary of National Biography
enEnglish
Dictionary of National Biography
esSpanish
Dictionary of National Biography
faPersian
فرهنگ زندگی‌نامه ملی
frFrench
Dictionary of National Biography
idIndonesian
Dictionary of National Biography
itItalian
Dictionary of National Biography
jaJapanese
英国人名事典
koKorean
영국인명사전
noNorwegian
Dictionary of National Biography
plPolish
Dictionary of National Biography
ptPortuguese
Dictionary of National Biography
ruRussian
Национальный биографический словарь
simpleSimple English
Dictionary of National Biography
svSwedish
Dictionary of National Biography
trTurkish
Dictionary of National Biography
ukUkrainian
Національний біографічний словник
urUrdu
لغت برائے عوامی سوانح نگاری
zhChinese
牛津國家人物傳記大辭典

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#42604
08.2023
Global:
#39486
08.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#19920
08.2023
Global:
#31211
05.2011

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Dictionary of National Biography from Wikipedia articles about Samuel Johnson, John Sessions, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Adrian Carton de Wiart and Charles Babbage. Whereas reading the article about Dictionary of National Biography people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Biographical dictionary, Oxford Biography Index, List of contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press and History of the British Isles.

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