Sonic the Hedgehog (character)

Quality:

Sonic the Hedgehog - video game character from the eponymous video game franchise. Article “Sonic the Hedgehog (character)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 54.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.86 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:

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The 682^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1439^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4458^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3219^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Sonic the Hedgehog (character)” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4458^th place) and written by 36 authors in all languages (3219^th place).

Since the creation of article “Sonic the Hedgehog (character)”, its content was written by 98 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (682^nd place) and edited by 5635 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1439^th place).

The article is cited 126 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4974 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #13 in February 2012
• Global: #130 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #545 in May 2025
• Global: #1008 in March 2008

There are 41 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) Sonic the Hedgehog (character)		92.375
2	Indonesian (id) Sonic the Hedgehog (karakter)		85.3719
3	Italian (it) Sonic the Hedgehog		84.4977
4	Azerbaijani (az) Kirpi Sonik		77.6688
5	Russian (ru) Ёж Соник		69.7551
6	Croatian (hr) Sonic the Hedgehog (lik)		62.1699
7	Armenian (hy) Սոնիկ ոզնի		60.9046
8	Slovenian (sl) Ježek Sonic (lik)		55.2171
9	Simple English (simple) Sonic the Hedgehog (character)		54.4039
10	Japanese (ja) ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ		51.5584

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sonic the Hedgehog (character)		14 634 893
2	Russian (ru) Ёж Соник		2 092 282
3	Japanese (ja) ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ		2 034 462
4	French (fr) Sonic		1 478 017
5	Spanish (es) Sonic (personaje)		1 155 347
6	Portuguese (pt) Sonic the Hedgehog (personagem)		1 005 160
7	Italian (it) Sonic the Hedgehog		957 805
8	Persian (fa) سونیک خارپشت (شخصیت)		334 349
9	German (de) Sonic the Hedgehog (Computerspielfigur)		312 219
10	Turkish (tr) Kirpi Sonic		267 182

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) Sonic the Hedgehog (character)		30 594
2	Spanish (es) Sonic (personaje)		8 418
3	Russian (ru) Ёж Соник		7 511
4	French (fr) Sonic		3 997
5	Japanese (ja) ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ		3 918
6	Turkish (tr) Kirpi Sonic		2 936
7	Portuguese (pt) Sonic the Hedgehog (personagem)		2 755
8	Italian (it) Sonic the Hedgehog		1 838
9	Arabic (ar) القنفذ سونيك (شخصية خيالية)		1 140
10	Persian (fa) سونیک خارپشت (شخصیت)		859

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sonic the Hedgehog (character)		2 373
2	Spanish (es) Sonic (personaje)		534
3	French (fr) Sonic		331
4	German (de) Sonic the Hedgehog (Computerspielfigur)		284
5	Italian (it) Sonic the Hedgehog		271
6	Russian (ru) Ёж Соник		255
7	Portuguese (pt) Sonic the Hedgehog (personagem)		218
8	Japanese (ja) ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ		168
9	Finnish (fi) Sonic the Hedgehog		118
10	Dutch (nl) Sonic the Hedgehog (personage)		105

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	Spanish (es) Sonic (personaje)		12
2	English (en) Sonic the Hedgehog (character)		6
3	Russian (ru) Ёж Соник		4
4	Italian (it) Sonic the Hedgehog		3
5	Czech (cs) Ježek Sonic		2
6	German (de) Sonic the Hedgehog (Computerspielfigur)		2
7	French (fr) Sonic		2
8	Japanese (ja) ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ		2
9	Portuguese (pt) Sonic the Hedgehog (personagem)		1
10	Simple English (simple) Sonic the Hedgehog (character)		1

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

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