Joseph Stalin

Quality:

Joseph Stalin - leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. This person is the 30^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 80^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Joseph Stalin” in Simple English Wikipedia has 86.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 40 references and 20 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 729^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 439^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 80^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 87^th most popular in all topics.

The 30^th most popular in AI.

The 30^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 444^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 443^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 745^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Joseph Stalin”, its content was written by 122 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (439^th place) and edited by 16364 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (30^th place).

Joseph Stalin is on the 80^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 30^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 345 times in Simple English Wikipedia (9054^th place) and cited 84645 times in all languages (2037^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #7 in February 2025
• Global: #11 in March 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #110 in January 2025
• Global: #37 in March 2022

There are 55 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) Joseph Stalin		100
2	German (de) Josef Stalin		100
3	Persian (fa) ژوزف استالین		100
4	Portuguese (pt) Josef Stalin		100
5	Turkish (tr) Josef Stalin		100
6	Vietnamese (vi) Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin		100
7	Finnish (fi) Josif Stalin		100
8	Indonesian (id) Josef Stalin		100
9	Slovenian (sl) Josif Stalin		100
10	Catalan (ca) Ióssif Stalin		100

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Joseph Stalin		85 778 593
2	Russian (ru) Сталин, Иосиф Виссарионович		39 239 810
3	Spanish (es) Iósif Stalin		16 717 787
4	French (fr) Joseph Staline		11 635 218
5	German (de) Josef Stalin		11 625 805
6	Japanese (ja) ヨシフ・スターリン		8 760 727
7	Polish (pl) Józef Stalin		8 135 387
8	Italian (it) Iosif Stalin		6 540 986
9	Portuguese (pt) Josef Stalin		5 894 950
10	Chinese (zh) 约瑟夫·斯大林		4 122 772

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) Joseph Stalin		270 004
2	Russian (ru) Сталин, Иосиф Виссарионович		103 333
3	German (de) Josef Stalin		37 073
4	Spanish (es) Iósif Stalin		34 302
5	Japanese (ja) ヨシフ・スターリン		30 913
6	French (fr) Joseph Staline		27 686
7	Italian (it) Iosif Stalin		19 004
8	Polish (pl) Józef Stalin		18 526
9	Chinese (zh) 约瑟夫·斯大林		18 394
10	Persian (fa) ژوزف استالین		17 526

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Joseph Stalin		3 815
2	Russian (ru) Сталин, Иосиф Виссарионович		1 303
3	German (de) Josef Stalin		986
4	French (fr) Joseph Staline		842
5	Spanish (es) Iósif Stalin		823
6	Italian (it) Iosif Stalin		725
7	Polish (pl) Józef Stalin		535
8	Dutch (nl) Jozef Stalin		485
9	Japanese (ja) ヨシフ・スターリン		465
10	Chinese (zh) 约瑟夫·斯大林		428

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	Spanish (es) Iósif Stalin		12
2	English (en) Joseph Stalin		6
3	Hungarian (hu) Joszif Visszarionovics Sztálin		5
4	Arabic (ar) يوسف ستالين		4
5	Italian (it) Iosif Stalin		4
6	Turkish (tr) Josef Stalin		4
7	Azerbaijani (az) İosif Stalin		3
8	German (de) Josef Stalin		3
9	Ukrainian (uk) Сталін Йосип Віссаріонович		3
10	Catalan (ca) Ióssif Stalin		2

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