The Color Purple (1985 movie)

Quality:

The Color Purple - 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg. This film is the 1346^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 305^th most popular film in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Color Purple (1985 movie)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 4 sections.

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 305^th most popular in films in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1346^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6700^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “The Color Purple (1985 movie)” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6700^th place) and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Color Purple (1985 movie)”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1454 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Color Purple is on the 305^th place in local ranking of films in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1346^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 38 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4205 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #741 in April 2021
• Global: #6727 in October 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2730 in December 2023
• Global: #1370 in December 2023

There are 38 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) The Color Purple (1985 film)		71.6358
2	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花 (電影)		37.7249
3	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre (film, 1985)		35.7234
4	Portuguese (pt) A Cor Púrpura (filme de 1985)		32.7706
5	Italian (it) Il colore viola (film 1985)		31.2071
6	Norwegian (no) Purpurfargen		30.0873
7	Arabic (ar) اللون الأرجواني (فيلم)		26.2403
8	Catalan (ca) El color púrpura		23.9865
9	Greek (el) Το Πορφυρούν Χρώμα (ταινία)		21.2842
10	Croatian (hr) Boja purpura (1985.)		20.8368

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Color Purple (1985 film)		8 917 180
2	Spanish (es) El color púrpura		1 501 182
3	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (1985)		1 285 884
4	Italian (it) Il colore viola (film 1985)		819 299
5	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre (film, 1985)		633 506
6	Portuguese (pt) A Cor Púrpura (filme de 1985)		516 214
7	Russian (ru) Цветы лиловые полей (фильм)		443 716
8	Japanese (ja) カラーパープル (1985年の映画)		349 925
9	Polish (pl) Kolor purpury (film)		180 776
10	Dutch (nl) The Color Purple (1985)		141 296

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) The Color Purple (1985 film)		47 910
2	Spanish (es) El color púrpura		5 261
3	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (1985)		3 503
4	Italian (it) Il colore viola (film 1985)		3 275
5	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre (film, 1985)		2 687
6	Russian (ru) Цветы лиловые полей (фильм)		2 384
7	Japanese (ja) カラーパープル (1985年の映画)		1 310
8	Portuguese (pt) A Cor Púrpura (filme de 1985)		1 087
9	Polish (pl) Kolor purpury (film)		971
10	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花 (電影)		629

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Color Purple (1985 film)		490
2	French (fr) La Couleur pourpre (film, 1985)		114
3	German (de) Die Farbe Lila (1985)		107
4	Italian (it) Il colore viola (film 1985)		101
5	Spanish (es) El color púrpura		60
6	Russian (ru) Цветы лиловые полей (фильм)		59
7	Hebrew (he) הצבע ארגמן (סרט)		51
8	Dutch (nl) The Color Purple (1985)		47
9	Portuguese (pt) A Cor Púrpura (filme de 1985)		38
10	Japanese (ja) カラーパープル (1985年の映画)		34

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) The Color Purple (1985 film)		4
2	Spanish (es) El color púrpura		2
3	Galician (gl) A cor púrpura		1
4	Hebrew (he) הצבע ארגמן (סרט)		1
5	Italian (it) Il colore viola (film 1985)		1
6	Dutch (nl) The Color Purple (1985)		1
7	Russian (ru) Цветы лиловые полей (фильм)		1
8	Simple English (simple) The Color Purple (1985 movie)		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Барва пурпурова (фільм, 1985)		1
10	Chinese (zh) 紫色姐妹花 (電影)		1

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

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