History of slavery

Quality:

History of slavery - historical aspect. Article “History of slavery” in Simple English Wikipedia has 78.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 47 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Italian 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 1206^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8900^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2645^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “History of slavery”, its content was written by 74 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1206^th place) and edited by 2678 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8900^th place).

The article is cited 114 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5438 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #76 in July 2013
• Global: #1691 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2510 in June 2020
• Global: #994 in June 2020

There are 20 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	Italian (it) Storia della schiavitù		96.579
2	Portuguese (pt) História da escravidão		96.5449
3	German (de) Geschichte der Sklaverei		95
4	English (en) History of slavery		94.9403
5	Arabic (ar) تاريخ العبودية		92.5337
6	Finnish (fi) Orjuuden historia		83.925
7	Simple English (simple) History of slavery		78.9301
8	French (fr) Histoire de l'esclavage		56.8876
9	Polish (pl) Historia niewolnictwa		49.8114
10	Russian (ru) История рабства		44.4082

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of slavery		11 983 680
2	French (fr) Histoire de l'esclavage		1 732 222
3	Spanish (es) Historia de la esclavitud		1 291 159
4	German (de) Geschichte der Sklaverei		927 196
5	Portuguese (pt) História da escravidão		664 133
6	Arabic (ar) تاريخ العبودية		432 098
7	Russian (ru) История рабства		393 315
8	Italian (it) Storia della schiavitù		254 476
9	Polish (pl) Historia niewolnictwa		116 369
10	Persian (fa) تاریخ برده‌داری		55 192

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) History of slavery		31 827
2	Portuguese (pt) História da escravidão		3 864
3	French (fr) Histoire de l'esclavage		3 749
4	German (de) Geschichte der Sklaverei		2 889
5	Russian (ru) История рабства		1 697
6	Simple English (simple) History of slavery		1 674
7	Spanish (es) Historia de la esclavitud		1 284
8	Arabic (ar) تاريخ العبودية		1 227
9	Italian (it) Storia della schiavitù		1 110
10	Polish (pl) Historia niewolnictwa		769

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History of slavery		1 426
2	German (de) Geschichte der Sklaverei		552
3	French (fr) Histoire de l'esclavage		242
4	Italian (it) Storia della schiavitù		75
5	Simple English (simple) History of slavery		74
6	Spanish (es) Historia de la esclavitud		67
7	Portuguese (pt) História da escravidão		59
8	Arabic (ar) تاريخ العبودية		50
9	Russian (ru) История рабства		37
10	Galician (gl) Historia da escravitude		34

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) History of slavery		11
2	German (de) Geschichte der Sklaverei		4
3	Arabic (ar) تاريخ العبودية		1
4	Finnish (fi) Orjuuden historia		1
5	French (fr) Histoire de l'esclavage		1
6	Italian (it) Storia della schiavitù		1
7	Greek (el) Δουλεμπόριο		0
8	Spanish (es) Historia de la esclavitud		0
9	Persian (fa) تاریخ برده‌داری		0
10	Galician (gl) Historia da escravitude		0

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

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