Samkranthi

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Makar Sankranti - Hindu festival that reveres Surya (sun god). This event is the 716^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 350^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Samkranthi” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.03 points.

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 350^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 716^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “Samkranthi”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 919 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Makar Sankranti is on the 350^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 716^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 26 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13938 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #528 in January 2020
• Global: #826 in January 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1382 in January 2016
• Global: #860 in January 2024

There are 18 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) Makar Sankranti		80.7872
2	Hindi (hi) मकर संक्रान्ति		60.2126
3	Spanish (es) Makar Sankranti		51.4958
4	Thai (th) มกรสังกรานติ		29.0088
5	French (fr) Makar Sankranti		23.0745
6	German (de) Makar Sankranti		20.6175
7	Polish (pl) Makar sankranti		16.9529
8	Ukrainian (uk) Макара-санкранті		14.5307
9	Persian (fa) ماکار سانکرانتی		11.8794
10	Indonesian (id) Makar Sankranti		11.3285

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Makar Sankranti		7 425 740
2	Hindi (hi) मकर संक्रान्ति		2 218 800
3	German (de) Makar Sankranti		77 874
4	Tamil (ta) மகர சங்கராந்தி		63 625
5	Russian (ru) Макара-санкранти		44 659
6	Spanish (es) Makar Sankranti		33 709
7	Swedish (sv) Sankranthi		21 077
8	Polish (pl) Makar sankranti		18 508
9	Simple English (simple) Samkranthi		17 656
10	Dutch (nl) Makar Sankranti		13 011

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) Makar Sankranti		8 212
2	Hindi (hi) मकर संक्रान्ति		1 559
3	Simple English (simple) Samkranthi		473
4	Tamil (ta) மகர சங்கராந்தி		127
5	Russian (ru) Макара-санкранти		111
6	German (de) Makar Sankranti		100
7	Spanish (es) Makar Sankranti		79
8	Persian (fa) ماکار سانکرانتی		33
9	Urdu (ur) مکر سنکرانتی		32
10	Thai (th) มกรสังกรานติ		31

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Makar Sankranti		654
2	Hindi (hi) मकर संक्रान्ति		110
3	German (de) Makar Sankranti		33
4	Tamil (ta) மகர சங்கராந்தி		27
5	Persian (fa) ماکار سانکرانتی		14
6	Russian (ru) Макара-санкранти		12
7	Polish (pl) Makar sankranti		10
8	Simple English (simple) Samkranthi		9
9	Swedish (sv) Sankranthi		9
10	Spanish (es) Makar Sankranti		8

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) Makar Sankranti		3
2	German (de) Makar Sankranti		0
3	Spanish (es) Makar Sankranti		0
4	Persian (fa) ماکار سانکرانتی		0
5	French (fr) Makar Sankranti		0
6	Hindi (hi) मकर संक्रान्ति		0
7	Indonesian (id) Makar Sankranti		0
8	Dutch (nl) Makar Sankranti		0
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Sankranti		0
10	Norwegian (no) Makar sankranti		0

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

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