Scramble for Africa

Quality:

Scramble for Africa - 1880s–1900s Western European colonisation of Africa. Article “Scramble for Africa” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Korean 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 8401^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9353^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7139^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7495^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Scramble for Africa”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8401^st place) and edited by 2655 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9353^rd place).

The article is cited 24 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7135 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #390 in April 2026
• Global: #2434 in March 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1567 in October 2025
• Global: #7823 in March 2021

There are 47 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	Korean (ko) 아프리카 분할		93.4656
2	Catalan (ca) Cursa per l'Àfrica		84.8824
3	English (en) Scramble for Africa		83.8946
4	Russian (ru) Колониальный раздел Африки		77.5981
5	Bulgarian (bg) Колониално разделяне на Африка		74.9024
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tranh giành châu Phi		68.9047
7	Hungarian (hu) Hajsza Afrikáért		60.7933
8	Spanish (es) Reparto de África		58.628
9	Galician (gl) Repartimento de África		57.2194
10	Chinese (zh) 瓜分非洲		57

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scramble for Africa		10 794 480
2	Spanish (es) Reparto de África		3 644 914
3	Portuguese (pt) Partilha de África		1 343 496
4	German (de) Wettlauf um Afrika		1 113 308
5	French (fr) Partage de l'Afrique		874 484
6	Russian (ru) Колониальный раздел Африки		857 020
7	Japanese (ja) アフリカ分割		681 791
8	Polish (pl) Wyścig o Afrykę		405 611
9	Italian (it) Spartizione dell'Africa		333 396
10	Thai (th) ลัทธิอาณานิคมในทวีปแอฟริกา		253 504

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) Scramble for Africa		45 819
2	Spanish (es) Reparto de África		5 271
3	German (de) Wettlauf um Afrika		3 462
4	Russian (ru) Колониальный раздел Африки		2 698
5	Japanese (ja) アフリカ分割		2 510
6	Chinese (zh) 瓜分非洲		1 761
7	Portuguese (pt) Partilha de África		1 758
8	French (fr) Partage de l'Afrique		1 601
9	Italian (it) Spartizione dell'Africa		1 290
10	Polish (pl) Wyścig o Afrykę		1 287

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Scramble for Africa		1 037
2	German (de) Wettlauf um Afrika		215
3	Spanish (es) Reparto de África		180
4	French (fr) Partage de l'Afrique		141
5	Russian (ru) Колониальный раздел Африки		84
6	Dutch (nl) Wedloop om Afrika		83
7	Portuguese (pt) Partilha de África		82
8	Norwegian (no) Kappløpet om Afrika		64
9	Japanese (ja) アフリカ分割		60
10	Chinese (zh) 瓜分非洲		55

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) Scramble for Africa		8
2	Spanish (es) Reparto de África		3
3	French (fr) Partage de l'Afrique		2
4	Italian (it) Spartizione dell'Africa		2
5	Korean (ko) 아프리카 분할		2
6	Serbian (sr) Osvajanje Afrike		2
7	Catalan (ca) Cursa per l'Àfrica		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Hajsza Afrikáért		1
9	Lithuanian (lt) Afrikos padalijimas		1
10	Russian (ru) Колониальный раздел Африки		1

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

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