Roxanne (The Police song)

Roxanne - original song written and composed by Sting; recorded 1978 by The Police. Article “Roxanne (The Police song)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.8 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Roxanne (The Police song)”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 591 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 22 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1202 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1886 in February 2022
• Global: #11677 in December 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #13758 in January 2024
• Global: #58349 in March 2013

There are 17 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) Roxanne (The Police song)		63.6215
2	Italian (it) Roxanne (The Police)		37.7841
3	French (fr) Roxanne (chanson)		36.3762
4	Portuguese (pt) Roxanne (canção)		35.5785
5	German (de) Roxanne (Lied)		33.3925
6	Georgian (ka) Roxanne		26.7251
7	Catalan (ca) Roxanne		23.2202
8	Russian (ru) Roxanne		17.3693
9	Dutch (nl) Roxanne		16.1566
10	Simple English (simple) Roxanne (The Police song)		15.1355

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Roxanne (The Police song)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Roxanne (The Police song)		857 007
2	French (fr) Roxanne (chanson)		321 677
3	Spanish (es) Roxanne (canción)		257 185
4	German (de) Roxanne (Lied)		205 881
5	Japanese (ja) ロクサーヌ		152 666
6	Russian (ru) Roxanne		99 563
7	Italian (it) Roxanne (The Police)		67 516
8	Polish (pl) Roxanne		56 624
9	Dutch (nl) Roxanne		27 882
10	Indonesian (id) Roxanne (lagu)		10 156

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Roxanne (The Police song)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Roxanne (The Police song)		10 466
2	French (fr) Roxanne (chanson)		1 782
3	German (de) Roxanne (Lied)		766
4	Italian (it) Roxanne (The Police)		624
5	Japanese (ja) ロクサーヌ		520
6	Russian (ru) Roxanne		299
7	Spanish (es) Roxanne (canción)		242
8	Dutch (nl) Roxanne		120
9	Simple English (simple) Roxanne (The Police song)		114
10	Portuguese (pt) Roxanne (canção)		98

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

Language versions of the article "Roxanne (The Police song)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Roxanne (The Police song)		277
2	German (de) Roxanne (Lied)		80
3	French (fr) Roxanne (chanson)		63
4	Italian (it) Roxanne (The Police)		56
5	Spanish (es) Roxanne (canción)		33
6	Russian (ru) Roxanne		17
7	Catalan (ca) Roxanne		13
8	Dutch (nl) Roxanne		13
9	Japanese (ja) ロクサーヌ		11
10	Polish (pl) Roxanne		7

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

Language versions of the article "Roxanne (The Police song)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Roxanne		1
2	Catalan (ca) Roxanne		0
3	German (de) Roxanne (Lied)		0
4	English (en) Roxanne (The Police song)		0
5	Spanish (es) Roxanne (canción)		0
6	Basque (eu) Roxanne (abestia)		0
7	Persian (fa) رکسان		0
8	French (fr) Roxanne (chanson)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Roxanne (lagu)		0
10	Italian (it) Roxanne (The Police)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Roxanne (The Police song)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Roxanne (The Police song)		449
2	Italian (it) Roxanne (The Police)		163
3	Georgian (ka) Roxanne		115
4	French (fr) Roxanne (chanson)		102
5	German (de) Roxanne (Lied)		85
6	Spanish (es) Roxanne (canción)		59
7	Russian (ru) Roxanne		48
8	Japanese (ja) ロクサーヌ		42
9	Polish (pl) Roxanne		40
10	Portuguese (pt) Roxanne (canção)		29

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Roxanne
de	German Roxanne (Lied)
en	English Roxanne (The Police song)
es	Spanish Roxanne (canción)
eu	Basque Roxanne (abestia)
fa	Persian رکسان
fr	French Roxanne (chanson)
id	Indonesian Roxanne (lagu)
it	Italian Roxanne (The Police)
ja	Japanese ロクサーヌ
ka	Georgian Roxanne
nl	Dutch Roxanne
pl	Polish Roxanne
pt	Portuguese Roxanne (canção)
ru	Russian Roxanne
simple	Simple English Roxanne (The Police song)
sv	Swedish Roxanne (låt)

Best Rank

Simple English: #13758 01.2024

Global: #58349 03.2013

Best Rank

Simple English: #1886 02.2022

Global: #11677 12.2004

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