Sting

Quality:

Sting - British musician (born 1951). This person is the 721^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 871^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Sting” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.5 points.

This article has the best quality in Polish 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 6448^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 871^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2179^th most popular in all topics.

The 3125^th most popular in AI.

The 721^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 6486^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2632^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9173^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sting”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 4452 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3125^th place).

Sting is on the 871^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 721^st place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 120 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 17865 times in all languages (9727^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #657 in October 2022
• Global: #1116 in July 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1094 in January 2026
• Global: #265 in November 2016

There are 51 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	Polish (pl) Sting		96.4706
2	English (en) Sting (musician)		95.2684
3	Bulgarian (bg) Стинг		93.3333
4	Georgian (ka) სტინგი		92.6434
5	Spanish (es) Sting		82.5886
6	Korean (ko) 스팅 (가수)		82.3552
7	German (de) Sting		63.4125
8	Swedish (sv) Sting		57.0481
9	French (fr) Sting		55.0071
10	Russian (ru) Стинг		50.2981

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sting (musician)		32 384 888
2	French (fr) Sting		5 170 139
3	German (de) Sting		5 017 255
4	Russian (ru) Стинг		4 812 116
5	Spanish (es) Sting		4 272 426
6	Italian (it) Sting		3 165 281
7	Japanese (ja) スティング (ミュージシャン)		2 844 248
8	Polish (pl) Sting		2 346 369
9	Dutch (nl) Sting (artiest)		1 063 115
10	Portuguese (pt) Sting (músico)		907 794

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) Sting (musician)		133 463
2	Russian (ru) Стинг		17 573
3	German (de) Sting		13 828
4	Japanese (ja) スティング (ミュージシャン)		9 378
5	French (fr) Sting		9 076
6	Spanish (es) Sting		8 991
7	Italian (it) Sting		7 647
8	Polish (pl) Sting		5 248
9	Swedish (sv) Sting		4 322
10	Czech (cs) Sting		3 712

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sting (musician)		1 461
2	German (de) Sting		390
3	French (fr) Sting		361
4	Italian (it) Sting		268
5	Russian (ru) Стинг		202
6	Spanish (es) Sting		188
7	Dutch (nl) Sting (artiest)		177
8	Hebrew (he) סטינג		126
9	Japanese (ja) スティング (ミュージシャン)		117
10	Polish (pl) Sting		115

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) Sting (musician)		7
2	French (fr) Sting		3
3	Portuguese (pt) Sting (músico)		2
4	Arabic (ar) ستينغ (مغني)		1
5	Catalan (ca) Sting		1
6	German (de) Sting		1
7	Persian (fa) استینگ		1
8	Italian (it) Sting		1
9	Japanese (ja) スティング (ミュージシャン)		1
10	Polish (pl) Sting		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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