Open University

Quality:

The Open University - university in Milton Keynes, UK. This university is the 135^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 92^nd most popular university in Simple English Wikipedia and the 247^th most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Open University” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 92^nd most popular in universities in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 247^th most popular in websites in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 135^th most popular in universities.

The 297^th most popular in websites.

Since the creation of article “Open University”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1145 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Open University is on the 92^nd place in local ranking of universities in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 135^th place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

The Open University is on the 247^th place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 297^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 40 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6094 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2761 in November 2013
• Global: #4946 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9503 in June 2019
• Global: #34291 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, 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) Open University		94.6526
2	German (de) The Open University		66.2679
3	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		57.0443
4	French (fr) Open University		48.709
5	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		43.8862
6	Simple English (simple) Open University		37.8137
7	Thai (th) มหาวิทยาลัยเปิด (สหราชอาณาจักร)		31.4234
8	Ukrainian (uk) Відкритий університет (Велика Британія)		28.1462
9	Norwegian (no) The Open University		27.4879
10	Catalan (ca) Open University		27.0881

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Open University		5 294 965
2	German (de) The Open University		325 848
3	Hindi (hi) मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय		201 434
4	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		199 362
5	Japanese (ja) オープン大学		123 866
6	French (fr) Open University		89 959
7	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		75 946
8	Spanish (es) The Open University		72 345
9	Polish (pl) The Open University		57 429
10	Portuguese (pt) The Open University		31 720

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		15 081
2	Japanese (ja) オープン大学		690
3	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		584
4	German (de) The Open University		481
5	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		464
6	Spanish (es) The Open University		198
7	Italian (it) Open University		148
8	Hindi (hi) मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय		144
9	French (fr) Open University		140
10	Persian (fa) دانشگاه آزاد انگلستان		87

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		585
2	German (de) The Open University		109
3	French (fr) Open University		71
4	Russian (ru) Открытый университет (Великобритания)		60
5	Dutch (nl) The Open University		31
6	Chinese (zh) 開放大學 (英國)		29
7	Polish (pl) The Open University		27
8	Japanese (ja) オープン大学		25
9	Hindi (hi) मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय		23
10	Czech (cs) Open University		21

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

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

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