Martin Luther King Jr.

Quality:

Martin Luther King Jr. - American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968). This person is the 44^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 30^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Martin Luther King Jr.” in Simple English Wikipedia has 98.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 69 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese 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 281^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 50^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 30^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 118^th most popular in all topics.

The 222^nd most popular in AI.

The 44^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 278^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 161^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1233^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 686^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Martin Luther King Jr.” was edited by 6 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (161^st place) and written by 74 authors in all languages (686^th place).

Since the creation of article “Martin Luther King Jr.”, its content was written by 260 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (50^th place) and edited by 10133 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (222^nd place).

Martin Luther King Jr. is on the 30^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 44^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 448 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5835^th place) and cited 28489 times in all languages (5791^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in February 2016
• Global: #12 in January 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #25 in August 2017
• Global: #13 in January 2013

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, 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	Portuguese (pt) Martin Luther King Jr.		100
2	Norwegian (no) Martin Luther King jr.		100
3	Danish (da) Martin Luther King		100
4	Armenian (hy) Մարտին Լյութեր Քինգ		100
5	Basque (eu) Martin Luther King		100
6	Persian (fa) مارتین لوتر کینگ جونیور		98.9913
7	Italian (it) Martin Luther King		98.8538
8	Azerbaijani (az) Martin Lüter Kinq		98.8022
9	Simple English (simple) Martin Luther King Jr.		98.4829
10	English (en) Martin Luther King Jr.		98.4393

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Martin Luther King Jr.		114 010 283
2	Spanish (es) Martin Luther King		23 383 585
3	French (fr) Martin Luther King		14 289 815
4	German (de) Martin Luther King		10 859 183
5	Portuguese (pt) Martin Luther King Jr.		9 025 108
6	Italian (it) Martin Luther King		7 111 751
7	Japanese (ja) マーティン・ルーサー・キング・ジュニア		4 730 183
8	Russian (ru) Кинг, Мартин Лютер		4 456 310
9	Dutch (nl) Martin Luther King		2 662 610
10	Chinese (zh) 马丁·路德·金		2 277 281

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) Martin Luther King Jr.		195 401
2	Spanish (es) Martin Luther King		36 332
3	French (fr) Martin Luther King		29 868
4	German (de) Martin Luther King		21 219
5	Russian (ru) Кинг, Мартин Лютер		16 220
6	Japanese (ja) マーティン・ルーサー・キング・ジュニア		15 303
7	Italian (it) Martin Luther King		14 733
8	Korean (ko) 마틴 루터 킹 주니어		9 352
9	Portuguese (pt) Martin Luther King Jr.		9 318
10	Chinese (zh) 马丁·路德·金		7 495

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Martin Luther King Jr.		3 118
2	German (de) Martin Luther King		652
3	French (fr) Martin Luther King		628
4	Italian (it) Martin Luther King		565
5	Spanish (es) Martin Luther King		458
6	Hebrew (he) מרטין לותר קינג		320
7	Dutch (nl) Martin Luther King		318
8	Portuguese (pt) Martin Luther King Jr.		269
9	Simple English (simple) Martin Luther King Jr.		260
10	Norwegian (no) Martin Luther King jr.		240

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) Martin Luther King Jr.		16
2	Italian (it) Martin Luther King		6
3	Simple English (simple) Martin Luther King Jr.		6
4	Spanish (es) Martin Luther King		5
5	Korean (ko) 마틴 루터 킹 주니어		5
6	Portuguese (pt) Martin Luther King Jr.		4
7	Arabic (ar) مارتن لوثر كينغ الابن		2
8	Danish (da) Martin Luther King		2
9	German (de) Martin Luther King		2
10	Hebrew (he) מרטין לותר קינג		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 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