The Godfather

Quality:

The Godfather - 1972 film by Francis Ford Coppola. This film is the 8^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 106^th most popular film in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Godfather” in Simple English Wikipedia has 99.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 90 references and 22 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:

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The 9287^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3251^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 106^th most popular in films in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 579^th most popular in all topics.

The 1180^th most popular in AI.

The 8^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5148^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 913^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1509^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Godfather”, its content was written by 44 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3251^st place) and edited by 6022 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1180^th place).

The Godfather is on the 106^th place in local ranking of films in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 8^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 130 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13920 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #19 in July 2022
• Global: #640 in February 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #199 in November 2008
• Global: #78 in January 2014

There are 52 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 Godfather		100
2	Japanese (ja) ゴッドファーザー (映画)		100
3	Catalan (ca) El Padrí		100
4	Persian (fa) پدرخوانده		99.1304
5	Simple English (simple) The Godfather		99.0927
6	Polish (pl) Ojciec chrzestny (film)		98.1818
7	Portuguese (pt) The Godfather		94.5455
8	Russian (ru) Крёстный отец (фильм)		87.6923
9	Spanish (es) El padrino (película)		84.1429
10	Bulgarian (bg) Кръстникът (филм)		79.5156

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Godfather		53 507 927
2	Russian (ru) Крёстный отец (фильм)		8 367 999
3	Spanish (es) El padrino (película)		7 844 831
4	German (de) Der Pate (Film)		7 571 847
5	Italian (it) Il padrino (film)		6 984 005
6	Japanese (ja) ゴッドファーザー (映画)		6 501 287
7	French (fr) Le Parrain (film)		5 715 763
8	Portuguese (pt) The Godfather		3 499 755
9	Chinese (zh) 教父 (電影)		2 672 176
10	Persian (fa) پدرخوانده		2 402 504

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) The Godfather		247 969
2	Japanese (ja) ゴッドファーザー (映画)		32 213
3	Russian (ru) Крёстный отец (фильм)		31 873
4	French (fr) Le Parrain (film)		28 500
5	Italian (it) Il padrino (film)		19 524
6	Spanish (es) El padrino (película)		19 116
7	German (de) Der Pate (Film)		16 296
8	Chinese (zh) 教父 (電影)		14 308
9	Persian (fa) پدرخوانده		8 474
10	Arabic (ar) العراب (فيلم)		8 340

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Godfather		2 013
2	French (fr) Le Parrain (film)		371
3	Italian (it) Il padrino (film)		352
4	German (de) Der Pate (Film)		309
5	Spanish (es) El padrino (película)		300
6	Russian (ru) Крёстный отец (фильм)		230
7	Dutch (nl) The Godfather		180
8	Portuguese (pt) The Godfather		158
9	Japanese (ja) ゴッドファーザー (映画)		156
10	Hebrew (he) הסנדק (סרט)		152

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 Godfather		13
2	Italian (it) Il padrino (film)		13
3	Chinese (zh) 教父 (電影)		4
4	Catalan (ca) El Padrí		2
5	Spanish (es) El padrino (película)		2
6	Persian (fa) پدرخوانده		2
7	Indonesian (id) The Godfather		2
8	Dutch (nl) The Godfather		2
9	Russian (ru) Крёстный отец (фильм)		2
10	Turkish (tr) Baba (film)		2

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

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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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information