Nelson Mandela

Quality:

Nelson Mandela - President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013). This person is the 63^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 6^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Nelson Mandela” in Simple English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 116 references and 16 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 75^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 188^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 6^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 159^th most popular in all topics.

The 258^th most popular in AI.

The 63^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 330^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1151^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4902^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Nelson Mandela”, its content was written by 171 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (188^th place) and edited by 9920 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (258^th place).

Nelson Mandela is on the 6^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 63^rd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 302 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 28068 times in all languages (6014^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1 in December 2013
• Global: #2 in December 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1 in December 2013
• Global: #3 in December 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, 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	English (en) Nelson Mandela		100
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		100
3	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		100
4	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		100
5	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		100
6	Polish (pl) Nelson Mandela		100
7	Simple English (simple) Nelson Mandela		100
8	Indonesian (id) Nelson Mandela		100
9	Catalan (ca) Nelson Mandela		100
10	Arabic (ar) نيلسون مانديلا		100

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Nelson Mandela		83 088 407
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		25 157 258
3	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		17 846 061
4	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		10 305 656
5	German (de) Nelson Mandela		9 861 131
6	Italian (it) Nelson Mandela		9 266 812
7	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		6 035 065
8	Japanese (ja) ネルソン・マンデラ		3 857 775
9	Dutch (nl) Nelson Mandela		3 404 216
10	Arabic (ar) نيلسون مانديلا		3 392 272

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) Nelson Mandela		179 943
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		36 225
3	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		26 173
4	Italian (it) Nelson Mandela		21 908
5	German (de) Nelson Mandela		19 605
6	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		16 622
7	Japanese (ja) ネルソン・マンデラ		16 251
8	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		10 708
9	Polish (pl) Nelson Mandela		6 933
10	Chinese (zh) 纳尔逊·曼德拉		6 754

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Nelson Mandela		2 445
2	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		792
3	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		685
4	German (de) Nelson Mandela		576
5	Italian (it) Nelson Mandela		542
6	Dutch (nl) Nelson Mandela		361
7	Portuguese (pt) Nelson Mandela		318
8	Russian (ru) Мандела, Нельсон		309
9	Swedish (sv) Nelson Mandela		251
10	Chinese (zh) 纳尔逊·曼德拉		250

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	Danish (da) Nelson Mandela		5
2	Spanish (es) Nelson Mandela		4
3	English (en) Nelson Mandela		3
4	French (fr) Nelson Mandela		3
5	Arabic (ar) نيلسون مانديلا		2
6	Catalan (ca) Nelson Mandela		2
7	German (de) Nelson Mandela		2
8	Norwegian (no) Nelson Mandela		2
9	Basque (eu) Nelson Mandela		1
10	Galician (gl) Nelson Mandela		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