Malays

Quality:

Malays - Sumatran ethnic group native to eastern Sumatra. Article "Malays" in Simple English Wikipedia has 36.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 15 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Malays", its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1558 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 40 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10007 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #543 in September 2012
• Global: #2648 in August 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9416 in July 2013
• Global: #6791 in July 2022

There are 40 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Etnik Melayu		100
2	Vietnamese (vi) Người Mã Lai		99.0993
3	English (en) Malays (ethnic group)		92.5873
4	Indonesian (id) Suku Melayu		78.9971
5	Bulgarian (bg) Малайци		65.2143
6	Chinese (zh) 马来族		59.7909
7	Japanese (ja) マレー人		45.9007
8	Tamil (ta) மலாய் மக்கள்		44.2188
9	Russian (ru) Малайцы		41.5598
10	Simple English (simple) Malays		36.7433

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Malays (ethnic group)		4 569 393
2	Indonesian (id) Suku Melayu		1 488 685
3	Chinese (zh) 马来族		694 141
4	Malay (ms) Etnik Melayu		520 402
5	Japanese (ja) マレー人		290 688
6	Russian (ru) Малайцы		276 313
7	German (de) Malaien		256 773
8	French (fr) Malais (peuple)		143 645
9	Spanish (es) Etnia malaya		127 349
10	Polish (pl) Malajowie		103 535

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) Malays (ethnic group)		24 944
2	Indonesian (id) Suku Melayu		8 128
3	Chinese (zh) 马来族		6 260
4	Malay (ms) Etnik Melayu		3 514
5	Russian (ru) Малайцы		2 264
6	Japanese (ja) マレー人		1 658
7	German (de) Malaien		1 197
8	Arabic (ar) الملايو (شعب)		916
9	Spanish (es) Etnia malaya		863
10	Persian (fa) مردم مالایی		836

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Malays (ethnic group)		586
2	Indonesian (id) Suku Melayu		162
3	Malay (ms) Etnik Melayu		117
4	Chinese (zh) 马来族		89
5	Russian (ru) Малайцы		67
6	German (de) Malaien		59
7	French (fr) Malais (peuple)		44
8	Italian (it) Malesi		41
9	Dutch (nl) Maleiers		39
10	Japanese (ja) マレー人		35

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	Indonesian (id) Suku Melayu		4
2	English (en) Malays (ethnic group)		3
3	Arabic (ar) الملايو (شعب)		2
4	German (de) Malaien		1
5	French (fr) Malais (peuple)		1
6	Hindi (hi) मलायी		1
7	Korean (ko) 말레이족		1
8	Malay (ms) Etnik Melayu		1
9	Russian (ru) Малайцы		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Người Mã Lai		1

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

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