Roald Dahl

Quality:

Roald Dahl - British writer and poet (1916–1990). This person is the 922^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 526^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Roald Dahl” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 8 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 4222^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1338^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 526^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2882^nd most popular in all topics.

The 2399^th most popular in AI.

The 922^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2285^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2924^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Roald Dahl”, its content was written by 73 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1338^th place) and edited by 4809 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2399^th place).

Roald Dahl is on the 526^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 922^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 46 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5582 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #31 in September 2017
• Global: #508 in February 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #731 in August 2025
• Global: #299 in September 2016

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, 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) Roald Dahl		95.115
2	Catalan (ca) Roald Dahl		94.2081
3	Armenian (hy) Ռոալդ Դալ		79.5606
4	Norwegian (no) Roald Dahl		69.1255
5	Malay (ms) Roald Dahl		60.8509
6	Spanish (es) Roald Dahl		56.9232
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Roald Dahl		56.3461
8	Uzbek (uz) Roald Dahl		52.4105
9	German (de) Roald Dahl		51.872
10	Dutch (nl) Roald Dahl		50.1235

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Roald Dahl		36 871 853
2	Spanish (es) Roald Dahl		4 062 439
3	French (fr) Roald Dahl		3 008 068
4	German (de) Roald Dahl		1 775 718
5	Dutch (nl) Roald Dahl		1 702 330
6	Italian (it) Roald Dahl		1 556 151
7	Norwegian (no) Roald Dahl		1 506 964
8	Russian (ru) Даль, Роальд		1 219 452
9	Japanese (ja) ロアルド・ダール		851 074
10	Swedish (sv) Roald Dahl		659 297

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) Roald Dahl		175 372
2	Spanish (es) Roald Dahl		7 204
3	French (fr) Roald Dahl		6 060
4	German (de) Roald Dahl		5 811
5	Italian (it) Roald Dahl		3 883
6	Russian (ru) Даль, Роальд		3 339
7	Japanese (ja) ロアルド・ダール		3 214
8	Dutch (nl) Roald Dahl		2 523
9	Swedish (sv) Roald Dahl		1 595
10	Chinese (zh) 羅爾德·達爾		1 593

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Roald Dahl		1 741
2	French (fr) Roald Dahl		378
3	German (de) Roald Dahl		323
4	Spanish (es) Roald Dahl		245
5	Dutch (nl) Roald Dahl		228
6	Italian (it) Roald Dahl		187
7	Norwegian (no) Roald Dahl		159
8	Hebrew (he) רואלד דאל		126
9	Swedish (sv) Roald Dahl		112
10	Russian (ru) Даль, Роальд		99

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) Roald Dahl		4
2	Arabic (ar) روالد دال		1
3	Azerbaijani (az) Roald Dal		1
4	Catalan (ca) Roald Dahl		1
5	Basque (eu) Roald Dahl		1
6	Persian (fa) رولد دال		1
7	French (fr) Roald Dahl		1
8	Hindi (hi) रोल्ड डाहल		1
9	Japanese (ja) ロアルド・ダール		1
10	Dutch (nl) Roald Dahl		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