Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel - Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016). This person is the 5005^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Elie Wiesel” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 2 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:

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The 6727^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4693^rd most popular in AI.

The 5005^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6133^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Elie Wiesel” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6133^rd place) and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Elie Wiesel”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6727^th place) and edited by 3649 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4693^rd place).

Elie Wiesel is on the 5005^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 125 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8460 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #76 in July 2016
• Global: #20 in July 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #323 in April 2014
• Global: #226 in July 2016

There are 49 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) Elie Wiesel		95.8145
2	Greek (el) Έλι Βίζελ		74.4716
3	Serbian (sr) Ели Визел		74.3431
4	Hebrew (he) אלי ויזל		62.4623
5	Romanian (ro) Elie Wiesel		59.282
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Elie Wiesel		54.7337
7	Hungarian (hu) Elie Wiesel		51.9765
8	Italian (it) Elie Wiesel		51.7194
9	French (fr) Elie Wiesel		49.6479
10	German (de) Elie Wiesel		48.5293

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Elie Wiesel		11 800 213
2	French (fr) Elie Wiesel		1 166 192
3	Italian (it) Elie Wiesel		705 908
4	German (de) Elie Wiesel		692 524
5	Spanish (es) Elie Wiesel		419 402
6	Hebrew (he) אלי ויזל		339 137
7	Russian (ru) Визель, Эли		295 266
8	Dutch (nl) Elie Wiesel		242 708
9	Portuguese (pt) Elie Wiesel		236 001
10	Romanian (ro) Elie Wiesel		234 430

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) Elie Wiesel		42 024
2	French (fr) Elie Wiesel		3 433
3	German (de) Elie Wiesel		1 960
4	Hebrew (he) אלי ויזל		1 957
5	Italian (it) Elie Wiesel		1 795
6	Spanish (es) Elie Wiesel		1 303
7	Romanian (ro) Elie Wiesel		1 111
8	Russian (ru) Визель, Эли		1 062
9	Japanese (ja) エリ・ヴィーゼル		863
10	Portuguese (pt) Elie Wiesel		746

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Elie Wiesel		1 466
2	French (fr) Elie Wiesel		301
3	German (de) Elie Wiesel		237
4	Hebrew (he) אלי ויזל		172
5	Italian (it) Elie Wiesel		167
6	Hungarian (hu) Elie Wiesel		107
7	Dutch (nl) Elie Wiesel		107
8	Spanish (es) Elie Wiesel		90
9	Russian (ru) Визель, Эли		90
10	Norwegian (no) Elie Wiesel		72

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) Elie Wiesel		3
2	Russian (ru) Визель, Эли		2
3	Catalan (ca) Elie Wiesel		1
4	German (de) Elie Wiesel		1
5	Hebrew (he) אלי ויזל		1
6	Norwegian (no) Elie Wiesel		1
7	Simple English (simple) Elie Wiesel		1
8	Slovenian (sl) Elie Wiesel		1
9	Turkish (tr) Elie Wiesel		1
10	Arabic (ar) إيلي فيزيل		0

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

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