Mahathir Mohamad

Quality:

Mahathir Mohamad - Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and 2018 to 2020. This person is the 4650^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 449^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Mahathir Mohamad” in Simple English Wikipedia has 99.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 133 references and 21 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay 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 3760^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 7249^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 449^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6424^th most popular in AI.

The 4650^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8040^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 194^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 834^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Mahathir Mohamad” was edited by 6 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (194^th place) and written by 68 authors in all languages (834^th place).

Since the creation of article “Mahathir Mohamad”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7249^th place) and edited by 3149 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6424^th place).

Mahathir Mohamad is on the 449^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 4650^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 260 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9538 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3 in August 2024
• Global: #34 in May 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #119 in August 2021
• Global: #120 in May 2018

There are 54 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	Malay (ms) Mahathir Mohamad		100
2	Simple English (simple) Mahathir Mohamad		99.9201
3	Korean (ko) 마하티르 빈 모하맛		96.9231
4	English (en) Mahathir Mohamad		96.7227
5	Chinese (zh) 马哈迪·莫哈末		96.3461
6	Arabic (ar) مهاتير محمد		94.9625
7	Indonesian (id) Mahathir Mohamad		94.898
8	Catalan (ca) Mahathir bin Mohamad		93.782
9	Japanese (ja) マハティール・ビン・モハマド		87.3656
10	Kazakh (kk) Махатхир Мұхамед		80.6556

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mahathir Mohamad		10 292 762
2	Malay (ms) Mahathir Mohamad		2 607 668
3	Chinese (zh) 马哈迪·莫哈末		1 616 408
4	Arabic (ar) مهاتير محمد		993 340
5	Japanese (ja) マハティール・ビン・モハマド		715 317
6	Indonesian (id) Mahathir Mohamad		587 820
7	Russian (ru) Махатхир Мохамад		247 514
8	French (fr) Mahathir Mohamad		214 697
9	Persian (fa) مهاتیر محمد		198 905
10	Thai (th) มาฮาดีร์ โมฮามัด		171 520

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) Mahathir Mohamad		46 823
2	Malay (ms) Mahathir Mohamad		10 738
3	Chinese (zh) 马哈迪·莫哈末		8 290
4	Indonesian (id) Mahathir Mohamad		3 508
5	Japanese (ja) マハティール・ビン・モハマド		3 350
6	Arabic (ar) مهاتير محمد		2 869
7	French (fr) Mahathir Mohamad		1 209
8	Russian (ru) Махатхир Мохамад		1 104
9	Persian (fa) مهاتیر محمد		896
10	Simple English (simple) Mahathir Mohamad		826

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mahathir Mohamad		1 241
2	Chinese (zh) 马哈迪·莫哈末		246
3	Malay (ms) Mahathir Mohamad		160
4	French (fr) Mahathir Mohamad		146
5	Japanese (ja) マハティール・ビン・モハマド		124
6	German (de) Mahathir bin Mohamad		110
7	Russian (ru) Махатхир Мохамад		82
8	Indonesian (id) Mahathir Mohamad		67
9	Vietnamese (vi) Mahathir Mohamad		60
10	Arabic (ar) مهاتير محمد		58

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) Mahathir Mohamad		30
2	Simple English (simple) Mahathir Mohamad		6
3	French (fr) Mahathir Mohamad		5
4	Korean (ko) 마하티르 빈 모하맛		5
5	Indonesian (id) Mahathir Mohamad		3
6	Japanese (ja) マハティール・ビン・モハマド		3
7	Arabic (ar) مهاتير محمد		2
8	Italian (it) Mahathir Mohamad		2
9	Malay (ms) Mahathir Mohamad		2
10	Polish (pl) Mahathir bin Mohamad		2

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

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