John the Baptist

Quality:

John the Baptist - 1st-century Jewish itinerant preacher (Bible). This person is the 1123^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “John the Baptist” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8414^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 8415^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3530^th most popular in all topics.

The 1430^th most popular in AI.

The 1123^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 1890^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3388^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “John the Baptist”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8415^th place) and edited by 5708 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1430^th place).

John the Baptist is on the 1123^rd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 161 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 52420 times in all languages (3133^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #353 in March 2010
• Global: #377 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1512 in June 2023
• Global: #1371 in June 2020

There are 53 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) John the Baptist		95.651
2	French (fr) Jean le Baptiste		92.1824
3	Indonesian (id) Yohanes Pembaptis		85.8885
4	Azerbaijani (az) Vəftizçi İohann		84.8213
5	Russian (ru) Иоанн Креститель		84.3031
6	German (de) Johannes der Täufer		78.573
7	Finnish (fi) Johannes Kastaja		76.1135
8	Spanish (es) Juan el Bautista		74.2421
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Johanan Krstitelj		73.7914
10	Turkish (tr) Yahya		68.9127

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) John the Baptist		16 775 555
2	Spanish (es) Juan el Bautista		5 845 149
3	French (fr) Jean le Baptiste		3 233 928
4	Russian (ru) Иоанн Креститель		3 227 376
5	Portuguese (pt) João Baptista		3 144 863
6	Italian (it) Giovanni Battista		2 817 181
7	German (de) Johannes der Täufer		2 437 492
8	Polish (pl) Jan Chrzciciel		1 379 318
9	Arabic (ar) يوحنا المعمدان		1 283 786
10	Japanese (ja) 洗礼者ヨハネ		1 270 190

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) John the Baptist		84 661
2	Spanish (es) Juan el Bautista		53 818
3	Portuguese (pt) João Baptista		21 775
4	Italian (it) Giovanni Battista		19 416
5	French (fr) Jean le Baptiste		17 571
6	German (de) Johannes der Täufer		13 283
7	Russian (ru) Иоанн Креститель		12 806
8	Japanese (ja) 洗礼者ヨハネ		5 644
9	Polish (pl) Jan Chrzciciel		5 639
10	Croatian (hr) Ivan Krstitelj		4 707

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) John the Baptist		1 656
2	German (de) Johannes der Täufer		421
3	Italian (it) Giovanni Battista		411
4	French (fr) Jean le Baptiste		386
5	Spanish (es) Juan el Bautista		270
6	Russian (ru) Иоанн Креститель		224
7	Dutch (nl) Johannes de Doper		184
8	Polish (pl) Jan Chrzciciel		154
9	Portuguese (pt) João Baptista		151
10	Hebrew (he) יוחנן המטביל		127

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) John the Baptist		5
2	Italian (it) Giovanni Battista		4
3	Polish (pl) Jan Chrzciciel		4
4	Finnish (fi) Johannes Kastaja		3
5	Serbian (sr) Свети Јован Крститељ		3
6	Ukrainian (uk) Іван Хреститель		3
7	Portuguese (pt) João Baptista		2
8	Russian (ru) Иоанн Креститель		2
9	Arabic (ar) يوحنا المعمدان		1
10	Bulgarian (bg) Йоан Кръстител		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information