Fictional character

Quality:

Character - fictional human or non-human character in a narrative work of art. Article “Fictional character” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Fictional character”, its content was written by 33 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5836^th place) and edited by 2285 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 990 times in Simple English Wikipedia (536^th place) and cited 119518 times in all languages (1053^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #209 in October 2009
• Global: #635 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in November 2021
• Global: #6876 in April 2021

There are 46 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	English (en) Character (arts)		55.5452
2	Greek (el) Χαρακτήρας (μυθοπλασία)		55.4619
3	French (fr) Personnage de fiction		44.5048
4	Slovak (sk) Fiktívna postava		35.4242
5	Portuguese (pt) Personagem fictícia		34.3165
6	Spanish (es) Personaje		30.6949
7	Polish (pl) Postać fikcyjna		29.3809
8	Simple English (simple) Fictional character		28.1156
9	Korean (ko) 등장인물		27.7342
10	Hindi (hi) पात्र (कलाशास्त्र)		26.4474

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Character (arts)		9 017 448
2	Spanish (es) Personaje		4 263 339
3	Italian (it) Personaggio immaginario		2 384 071
4	Japanese (ja) キャラクター		1 971 671
5	French (fr) Personnage de fiction		1 598 691
6	Simple English (simple) Fictional character		1 043 530
7	Russian (ru) Персонаж		797 009
8	Dutch (nl) Personage		339 046
9	Portuguese (pt) Personagem fictícia		304 234
10	Chinese (zh) 角色		278 706

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) Character (arts)		11 900
2	Italian (it) Personaggio immaginario		7 310
3	Japanese (ja) キャラクター		3 508
4	French (fr) Personnage de fiction		2 908
5	Spanish (es) Personaje		2 132
6	Russian (ru) Персонаж		1 507
7	Chinese (zh) 角色		678
8	Simple English (simple) Fictional character		512
9	Portuguese (pt) Personagem fictícia		482
10	Persian (fa) شخصیت (فعالیت‌های هنری)		408

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Character (arts)		685
2	Spanish (es) Personaje		168
3	Italian (it) Personaggio immaginario		165
4	French (fr) Personnage de fiction		149
5	Japanese (ja) キャラクター		134
6	Hebrew (he) דמות		107
7	Dutch (nl) Personage		82
8	Russian (ru) Персонаж		78
9	Chinese (zh) 角色		48
10	Portuguese (pt) Personagem fictícia		43

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	Russian (ru) Персонаж		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Personaj		1
3	German (de) Figur (Fiktion)		1
4	English (en) Character (arts)		1
5	Spanish (es) Personaje		1
6	Slovak (sk) Fiktívna postava		1
7	Uzbek (uz) Personaj		1
8	Arabic (ar) شخصية خيالية		0
9	Catalan (ca) Personatge		0
10	Czech (cs) Fiktivní postava		0

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

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