Old Testament

Quality:

Old Testament - first division of the Christian biblical canon. This book is the 25^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 1^st most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Old Testament” in Simple English Wikipedia has 48.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan 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 11^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 680^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 1^st most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2295^th most popular in all topics.

The 3678^th most popular in AI.

The 25^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2956^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4610^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Old Testament”, its content was written by 98 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (680^th place) and edited by 4082 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3678^th place).

Old Testament is on the 1^st place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 25^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 344 times in Simple English Wikipedia (8872^nd place) and cited 52019 times in all languages (3052^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #8 in February 2022
• Global: #143 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1 in September 2021
• Global: #1356 in September 2019

There are 53 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	Catalan (ca) Antic Testament		84.6154
2	English (en) Old Testament		83.7015
3	Indonesian (id) Perjanjian Lama		81.5776
4	Russian (ru) Ветхий Завет		65.1824
5	Arabic (ar) العهد القديم		64.1803
6	Malay (ms) Perjanjian Lama		61.7534
7	Chinese (zh) 旧约圣经		60.6335
8	Turkish (tr) Eski Ahit		58.2085
9	Thai (th) พันธสัญญาเดิม		49.9651
10	Korean (ko) 구약성경		49.0521

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Old Testament		14 575 318
2	Spanish (es) Antiguo Testamento		9 952 104
3	Simple English (simple) Old Testament		4 280 792
4	Russian (ru) Ветхий Завет		4 132 094
5	Japanese (ja) 旧約聖書		3 824 487
6	German (de) Altes Testament		2 974 281
7	French (fr) Ancien Testament		2 430 112
8	Polish (pl) Stary Testament		2 380 857
9	Portuguese (pt) Antigo Testamento		2 174 819
10	Italian (it) Antico Testamento		1 785 110

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) Old Testament		61 459
2	Russian (ru) Ветхий Завет		18 195
3	Japanese (ja) 旧約聖書		16 676
4	Spanish (es) Antiguo Testamento		16 061
5	French (fr) Ancien Testament		8 072
6	German (de) Altes Testament		7 864
7	Chinese (zh) 旧约圣经		5 343
8	Portuguese (pt) Antigo Testamento		5 124
9	Persian (fa) عهد عتیق		4 826
10	Italian (it) Antico Testamento		4 512

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Old Testament		752
2	German (de) Altes Testament		330
3	Spanish (es) Antiguo Testamento		238
4	French (fr) Ancien Testament		214
5	Russian (ru) Ветхий Завет		177
6	Italian (it) Antico Testamento		176
7	Japanese (ja) 旧約聖書		154
8	Dutch (nl) Oude Testament		153
9	Portuguese (pt) Antigo Testamento		117
10	Norwegian (no) Det gamle testamentet		104

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	Arabic (ar) العهد القديم		3
2	Catalan (ca) Antic Testament		3
3	English (en) Old Testament		2
4	Urdu (ur) عہد نامہ قدیم		2
5	Vietnamese (vi) Cựu Ước		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Əhdi-ətiq		1
7	Spanish (es) Antiguo Testamento		1
8	Hebrew (he) הברית הישנה		1
9	Japanese (ja) 旧約聖書		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Antigo Testamento		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 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