Josephus

Quality:

Josephus - Roman–Jewish historian and military leader (c. 37–c. 100). This person is the 5570^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Josephus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7883^rd most popular in AI.

The 5570^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3886^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9282^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Josephus” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3886^th place) and written by 21 authors in all languages (9282^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Josephus”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2887 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7883^rd place).

Josephus is on the 5570^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 29 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16157 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1121 in April 2017
• Global: #264 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5960 in January 2026
• Global: #10907 in April 2025

There are 48 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	German (de) Flavius Josephus		100
2	English (en) Josephus		90.4545
3	Latin (la) Flavius Iosephus		86.3391
4	Hebrew (he) יוסף בן מתתיהו		86.1538
5	French (fr) Flavius Josèphe		67.997
6	Spanish (es) Flavio Josefo		65.5994
7	Norwegian (no) Josefus		64.1108
8	Persian (fa) یوسف فلاوی		59.177
9	Slovenian (sl) Jožef Flavij		51.3467
10	Romanian (ro) Iosephus Flavius		51.1628

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Josephus		7 612 313
2	Spanish (es) Flavio Josefo		1 744 043
3	Portuguese (pt) Flávio Josefo		1 179 508
4	Russian (ru) Иосиф Флавий		1 092 832
5	German (de) Flavius Josephus		905 530
6	French (fr) Flavius Josèphe		811 021
7	Hebrew (he) יוסף בן מתתיהו		723 065
8	Italian (it) Flavio Giuseppe		672 564
9	Polish (pl) Józef Flawiusz		442 249
10	Dutch (nl) Flavius Josephus		225 754

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) Josephus		30 087
2	Spanish (es) Flavio Josefo		4 410
3	Russian (ru) Иосиф Флавий		4 299
4	French (fr) Flavius Josèphe		3 265
5	German (de) Flavius Josephus		3 137
6	Portuguese (pt) Flávio Josefo		3 005
7	Italian (it) Flavio Giuseppe		2 039
8	Hebrew (he) יוסף בן מתתיהו		2 002
9	Polish (pl) Józef Flawiusz		1 319
10	Japanese (ja) フラウィウス・ヨセフス		927

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Josephus		693
2	German (de) Flavius Josephus		267
3	Hebrew (he) יוסף בן מתתיהו		247
4	French (fr) Flavius Josèphe		203
5	Italian (it) Flavio Giuseppe		144
6	Russian (ru) Иосиф Флавий		132
7	Spanish (es) Flavio Josefo		129
8	Dutch (nl) Flavius Josephus		111
9	Polish (pl) Józef Flawiusz		74
10	Portuguese (pt) Flávio Josefo		60

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) Josephus		5
2	Azerbaijani (az) İosif Flavi		2
3	French (fr) Flavius Josèphe		2
4	Polish (pl) Józef Flawiusz		2
5	Arabic (ar) يوسيفوس فلافيوس		1
6	German (de) Flavius Josephus		1
7	Spanish (es) Flavio Josefo		1
8	Basque (eu) Flavio Josefo		1
9	Persian (fa) یوسف فلاوی		1
10	Hebrew (he) יוסף בן מתתיהו		1

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

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