Pope John Paul II

Quality:

John Paul II - 264th pope of the Catholic Church (1920–2005). This person is the 186^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 99^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Pope John Paul II” in Simple English Wikipedia has 96.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 60 references and 13 sections.

This article has the best quality in French 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 925^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 228^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 99^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 497^th most popular in all topics.

The 90^th most popular in AI.

The 186^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 280^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1205^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 630^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Pope John Paul II”, its content was written by 154 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (228^th place) and edited by 12195 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (90^th place).

John Paul II is on the 99^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 186^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 444 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5857^th place) and cited 104273 times in all languages (1294^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in April 2005
• Global: #1 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12 in May 2025
• Global: #5 in April 2025

There are 52 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	French (fr) Jean-Paul II		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Papa João Paulo II		100
3	Indonesian (id) Paus Yohanes Paulus II		100
4	Malay (ms) Paus Ioannes Paulus II		100
5	Finnish (fi) Johannes Paavali II		99.0504
6	German (de) Johannes Paul II.		98.4685
7	English (en) Pope John Paul II		98.118
8	Hungarian (hu) II. János Pál pápa		97.0916
9	Simple English (simple) Pope John Paul II		96.8876
10	Czech (cs) Jan Pavel II.		96.4076

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope John Paul II		38 587 048
2	Polish (pl) Jan Paweł II		22 362 034
3	Spanish (es) Juan Pablo II		18 333 704
4	Italian (it) Papa Giovanni Paolo II		10 507 988
5	German (de) Johannes Paul II.		6 548 775
6	French (fr) Jean-Paul II		5 782 645
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa João Paulo II		5 587 697
8	Russian (ru) Иоанн Павел II		3 078 907
9	Japanese (ja) ヨハネ・パウロ2世 (ローマ教皇)		2 253 145
10	Dutch (nl) Paus Johannes Paulus II		1 340 746

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) Pope John Paul II		157 356
2	Spanish (es) Juan Pablo II		43 219
3	Polish (pl) Jan Paweł II		37 056
4	Italian (it) Papa Giovanni Paolo II		33 439
5	German (de) Johannes Paul II.		20 920
6	French (fr) Jean-Paul II		19 966
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa João Paulo II		18 980
8	Russian (ru) Иоанн Павел II		13 171
9	Japanese (ja) ヨハネ・パウロ2世 (ローマ教皇)		9 042
10	Chinese (zh) 若望保祿二世		6 209

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pope John Paul II		3 368
2	German (de) Johannes Paul II.		975
3	Polish (pl) Jan Paweł II		863
4	Italian (it) Papa Giovanni Paolo II		848
5	French (fr) Jean-Paul II		822
6	Spanish (es) Juan Pablo II		702
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa João Paulo II		358
8	Dutch (nl) Paus Johannes Paulus II		356
9	Russian (ru) Иоанн Павел II		306
10	Chinese (zh) 若望保祿二世		213

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	Italian (it) Papa Giovanni Paolo II		14
2	Spanish (es) Juan Pablo II		12
3	English (en) Pope John Paul II		10
4	Finnish (fi) Johannes Paavali II		3
5	French (fr) Jean-Paul II		3
6	Hebrew (he) יוחנן פאולוס השני		3
7	Indonesian (id) Paus Yohanes Paulus II		3
8	Dutch (nl) Paus Johannes Paulus II		3
9	Russian (ru) Иоанн Павел II		3
10	Swedish (sv) Johannes Paulus II		3

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

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