Kim Jong-il

Quality:

Kim Jong-il - Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. This person is the 633^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 911^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Kim Jong-il” in Simple English Wikipedia has 41.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Thai 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 6861^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1550^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 911^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1923^rd most popular in all topics.

The 656^th most popular in AI.

The 633^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2013^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1963^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1436^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Kim Jong-il”, its content was written by 65 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1550^th place) and edited by 7369 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (656^th place).

Kim Jong-il is on the 911^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 633^rd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 69 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10075 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4 in December 2011
• Global: #1 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #154 in September 2010
• Global: #4 in December 2011

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, 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	Thai (th) คิม จ็อง-อิล		100
2	German (de) Kim Jong-il		87.4316
3	English (en) Kim Jong Il		85.4087
4	Chinese (zh) 金正日		85.0922
5	Korean (ko) 김정일		75.6291
6	Polish (pl) Kim Dzong Il		72.423
7	Vietnamese (vi) Kim Jong-il		71.8429
8	Italian (it) Kim Jong-il		70.35
9	Russian (ru) Ким Чен Ир		68.3202
10	Norwegian (no) Kim Jong-il		68.0529

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kim Jong Il		31 340 623
2	Japanese (ja) 金正日		6 851 461
3	Russian (ru) Ким Чен Ир		4 831 603
4	Spanish (es) Kim Jong-il		3 476 703
5	German (de) Kim Jong-il		3 133 973
6	Chinese (zh) 金正日		2 772 474
7	French (fr) Kim Jong-il		2 142 787
8	Italian (it) Kim Jong-il		1 673 672
9	Polish (pl) Kim Dzong Il		1 571 816
10	Portuguese (pt) Kim Jong-il		1 088 264

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) Kim Jong Il		137 950
2	Russian (ru) Ким Чен Ир		25 414
3	Japanese (ja) 金正日		19 430
4	Chinese (zh) 金正日		15 854
5	Spanish (es) Kim Jong-il		15 101
6	Arabic (ar) كيم جونغ إل		12 982
7	Persian (fa) کیم جونگ ایل		9 850
8	German (de) Kim Jong-il		8 836
9	French (fr) Kim Jong-il		8 431
10	Italian (it) Kim Jong-il		7 787

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kim Jong Il		2 070
2	German (de) Kim Jong-il		447
3	Japanese (ja) 金正日		438
4	Korean (ko) 김정일		399
5	Chinese (zh) 金正日		376
6	French (fr) Kim Jong-il		358
7	Russian (ru) Ким Чен Ир		309
8	Italian (it) Kim Jong-il		266
9	Spanish (es) Kim Jong-il		251
10	Dutch (nl) Kim Jong-il		178

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) Kim Jong Il		20
2	Italian (it) Kim Jong-il		5
3	Spanish (es) Kim Jong-il		4
4	Japanese (ja) 金正日		4
5	Russian (ru) Ким Чен Ир		3
6	French (fr) Kim Jong-il		2
7	Hebrew (he) קים ג'ונג-איל		2
8	Turkish (tr) Kim Cong-il		2
9	Chinese (zh) 金正日		2
10	Bulgarian (bg) Ким Чен Ир		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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information