Martin Luther King Jr.

Quality:

Martin Luther King Jr. - American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968). This person is the 46^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 29^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Martin Luther King Jr.” in Simple English Wikipedia has 98.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 289^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 54^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 29^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 121^st most popular in all topics.

The 219^th most popular in AI.

The 46^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 457^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 669^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1529^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2693^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Martin Luther King Jr.” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (669^th place) and written by 39 authors in all languages (2693^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Martin Luther King Jr.”, its content was written by 261 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (54^th place) and edited by 10261 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (219^th place).

Martin Luther King Jr. is on the 29^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 46^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 446 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5998^th place) and cited 29332 times in all languages (5780^th 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: #12 in January 2009

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, 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	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		98.7026
7	Italian (it) Martin Luther King		98.4426
8	Azerbaijani (az) Martin Lüter Kinq		98.4208
9	English (en) Martin Luther King Jr.		98.3473
10	Simple English (simple) Martin Luther King Jr.		98.2743

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Martin Luther King Jr.		117 966 009
2	Spanish (es) Martin Luther King		23 844 476
3	French (fr) Martin Luther King		14 690 169
4	German (de) Martin Luther King		11 211 925
5	Portuguese (pt) Martin Luther King Jr.		9 218 954
6	Italian (it) Martin Luther King		7 275 993
7	Russian (ru) Кинг, Мартин Лютер		4 947 619
8	Japanese (ja) マーティン・ルーサー・キング・ジュニア		4 898 731
9	Dutch (nl) Martin Luther King		2 728 474
10	Chinese (zh) 马丁·路德·金		2 392 108

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.		165 924
2	German (de) Martin Luther King		29 736
3	French (fr) Martin Luther King		24 378
4	Spanish (es) Martin Luther King		21 563
5	Russian (ru) Кинг, Мартин Лютер		12 413
6	Portuguese (pt) Martin Luther King Jr.		10 694
7	Japanese (ja) マーティン・ルーサー・キング・ジュニア		10 648
8	Italian (it) Martin Luther King		10 631
9	Chinese (zh) 马丁·路德·金		6 214
10	Polish (pl) Martin Luther King		4 082

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.		3 193
2	German (de) Martin Luther King		658
3	French (fr) Martin Luther King		640
4	Italian (it) Martin Luther King		576
5	Spanish (es) Martin Luther King		467
6	Hebrew (he) מרטין לותר קינג		327
7	Dutch (nl) Martin Luther King		322
8	Portuguese (pt) Martin Luther King Jr.		278
9	Simple English (simple) Martin Luther King Jr.		261
10	Russian (ru) Кинг, Мартин Лютер		235

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	Chinese (zh) 马丁·路德·金		6
2	English (en) Martin Luther King Jr.		5
3	Italian (it) Martin Luther King		4
4	Russian (ru) Кинг, Мартин Лютер		4
5	Basque (eu) Martin Luther King		3
6	Catalan (ca) Martin Luther King		2
7	Czech (cs) Martin Luther King		2
8	Simple English (simple) Martin Luther King Jr.		2
9	Ukrainian (uk) Мартін Лютер Кінг		2
10	Arabic (ar) مارتن لوثر كينغ الابن		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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information