F. W. de Klerk

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F. W. de Klerk - 7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. This person is the 7462^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 789^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “F. W. de Klerk” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 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 6069^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 8250^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 789^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7462^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6754^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 914^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “F. W. de Klerk” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (914^th place) and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “F. W. de Klerk”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8250^th place) and edited by 2382 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

F. W. de Klerk is on the 789^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 7462^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 167 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10642 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #366 in February 2017
• Global: #19 in November 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1846 in December 2013
• Global: #448 in December 2013

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) F. W. de Klerk		100
2	Malay (ms) Frederik Willem de Klerk		51.7546
3	German (de) Frederik Willem de Klerk		50.1792
4	Armenian (hy) Ֆրեդերիկ Վիլլեմ դե Կլերկ		43.2756
5	French (fr) Frederik Willem de Klerk		37.6279
6	Norwegian (no) Frederik Willem de Klerk		33.0551
7	Latin (la) Fridericus Gulielmus de Klerk		32.3674
8	Slovak (sk) Frederik Willem de Klerk		30.3023
9	Slovenian (sl) Frederik Willem de Klerk		27.915
10	Vietnamese (vi) Frederik Willem de Klerk		27.7598

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) F. W. de Klerk		7 014 184
2	French (fr) Frederik Willem de Klerk		810 875
3	German (de) Frederik Willem de Klerk		712 833
4	Spanish (es) Frederik de Klerk		648 314
5	Italian (it) Frederik de Klerk		476 722
6	Russian (ru) Клерк, Фредерик Виллем де		412 812
7	Japanese (ja) フレデリック・ウィレム・デクラーク		392 057
8	Polish (pl) Frederik Willem de Klerk		327 694
9	Portuguese (pt) Frederik Willem de Klerk		325 486
10	Dutch (nl) Frederik Willem de Klerk		285 677

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) F. W. de Klerk		30 605
2	French (fr) Frederik Willem de Klerk		2 845
3	Russian (ru) Клерк, Фредерик Виллем де		2 510
4	German (de) Frederik Willem de Klerk		1 941
5	Spanish (es) Frederik de Klerk		1 828
6	Italian (it) Frederik de Klerk		1 653
7	Chinese (zh) 弗雷德里克·威廉·戴克拉克		1 290
8	Japanese (ja) フレデリック・ウィレム・デクラーク		1 065
9	Portuguese (pt) Frederik Willem de Klerk		1 061
10	Simple English (simple) F. W. de Klerk		926

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) F. W. de Klerk		717
2	French (fr) Frederik Willem de Klerk		178
3	German (de) Frederik Willem de Klerk		173
4	Italian (it) Frederik de Klerk		121
5	Russian (ru) Клерк, Фредерик Виллем де		100
6	Dutch (nl) Frederik Willem de Klerk		93
7	Spanish (es) Frederik de Klerk		86
8	Norwegian (no) Frederik Willem de Klerk		73
9	Hebrew (he) פרדריק וילם דה קלרק		56
10	Chinese (zh) 弗雷德里克·威廉·戴克拉克		52

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) F. W. de Klerk		4
2	Simple English (simple) F. W. de Klerk		3
3	Spanish (es) Frederik de Klerk		2
4	Chinese (zh) 弗雷德里克·威廉·戴克拉克		2
5	Arabic (ar) فريديريك ويليم دي كليرك		1
6	Hebrew (he) פרדריק וילם דה קלרק		1
7	Korean (ko) 프레데리크 빌렘 데 클레르크		1
8	Swedish (sv) F.W. de Klerk		1
9	Turkish (tr) F. W. de Klerk		1
10	Belarusian (be) Фрэдэрык Вілем дэ Клерк		0

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

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