Open University

Quality:

The Open University - university in Milton Keynes, UK. This university is the 139^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 91^st most popular university in Simple English Wikipedia and the 230^th most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Open University” in Simple English Wikipedia has 38.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 2 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:

The 91^st most popular in universities in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 230^th most popular in websites in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 139^th most popular in universities.

The 310^th most popular in websites.

Since the creation of article “Open University”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1122 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Open University is on the 91^st place in local ranking of universities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 139^th place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

The Open University is on the 230^th place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 310^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 37 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5286 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2763 in November 2013
• Global: #4940 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9483 in June 2019
• Global: #35948 in June 2008

There are 29 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	English (en) Open University		94.6854
2	German (de) The Open University		69.1483
3	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		59.9241
4	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		46.2531
5	Simple English (simple) Open University		38.5699
6	Thai (th) มหาวิทยาลัยเปิด (สหราชอาณาจักร)		30.1969
7	Ukrainian (uk) Відкритий університет (Велика Британія)		28.4623
8	Norwegian (no) The Open University		27.5107
9	Catalan (ca) Open University		27.0858
10	Italian (it) Open University		25.1348

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Open University		4 895 444
2	German (de) The Open University		319 019
3	Hindi (hi) मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय		198 597
4	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		178 130
5	Japanese (ja) オープン大学		116 349
6	French (fr) Open University		87 901
7	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		70 497
8	Spanish (es) The Open University		69 775
9	Polish (pl) The Open University		56 574
10	Portuguese (pt) The Open University		30 981

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) Open University		19 099
2	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		589
3	German (de) The Open University		567
4	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		561
5	Japanese (ja) オープン大学		542
6	Hindi (hi) मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय		320
7	Spanish (es) The Open University		247
8	Italian (it) Open University		193
9	Dutch (nl) The Open University		142
10	Simple English (simple) Open University		127

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Open University		573
2	German (de) The Open University		108
3	French (fr) Open University		69
4	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		57
5	Dutch (nl) The Open University		31
6	Norwegian (no) The Open University		29
7	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		28
8	Polish (pl) The Open University		27
9	Japanese (ja) オープン大学		24
10	Hindi (hi) मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय		23

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) Open University		3
2	German (de) The Open University		1
3	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		1
4	Belarusian (be) Адкрыты ўніверсітэт (Вялікабрытанія)		0
5	Catalan (ca) Open University		0
6	Czech (cs) Open University		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Malferma Universitato de Britio		0
8	Spanish (es) The Open University		0
9	Estonian (et) Avatud Ülikool		0
10	Persian (fa) دانشگاه آزاد انگلستان		0

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

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