The Independent

The Independent - British national daily newspaper. This website is the 187^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 231^st most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Independent” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.03 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “The Independent”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1543 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Independent is on the 231^st place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 187^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 606 times in Simple English Wikipedia (3122^nd place) and cited 97977 times in all languages (1456^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1813 in March 2023
• Global: #7825 in March 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12410 in August 2010
• Global: #20396 in May 2010

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	English (en) The Independent		79.0917
2	Estonian (et) The Independent		34.9775
3	Turkish (tr) The Independent		33.4404
4	Russian (ru) The Independent		30.87
5	Georgian (ka) The Independent		30.7783
6	Catalan (ca) The Independent		30.2852
7	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		29.6111
8	Hebrew (he) אינדפנדנט		28.9926
9	French (fr) The Independent		28.1503
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) The Independent		27.128

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Independent" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Independent		7 945 593
2	German (de) The Independent		383 693
3	Russian (ru) The Independent		366 324
4	French (fr) The Independent		312 036
5	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		232 611
6	Spanish (es) The Independent		160 742
7	Italian (it) The Independent		137 774
8	Persian (fa) ایندیپندنت		107 033
9	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		101 291
10	Polish (pl) The Independent		95 428

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The Independent" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Independent		23 653
2	Russian (ru) The Independent		739
3	German (de) The Independent		693
4	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		492
5	French (fr) The Independent		489
6	Persian (fa) ایندیپندنت		372
7	Chinese (zh) 獨立報 (英國)		371
8	Spanish (es) The Independent		218
9	Italian (it) The Independent		182
10	Turkish (tr) The Independent		178

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

Language versions of the article "The Independent" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Independent		683
2	German (de) The Independent		103
3	French (fr) The Independent		76
4	Russian (ru) The Independent		62
5	Italian (it) The Independent		46
6	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		42
7	Dutch (nl) The Independent		39
8	Chinese (zh) 獨立報 (英國)		33
9	Finnish (fi) The Independent		30
10	Polish (pl) The Independent		29

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

Language versions of the article "The Independent" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Independent		4
2	Thai (th) ดิอินดีเพนเดนต์		2
3	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) The Independent		1
5	Catalan (ca) The Independent		1
6	Armenian (hy) The Independent		1
7	Russian (ru) The Independent		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Індепендент		1
9	Belarusian (be) The Independent		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Индипендънт		0

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

Language versions of the article "The Independent" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Independent		44 173
2	Russian (ru) The Independent		4 697
3	French (fr) The Independent		4 627
4	Spanish (es) The Independent		4 093
5	German (de) The Independent		3 382
6	Portuguese (pt) The Independent		3 282
7	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		2 759
8	Italian (it) The Independent		2 496
9	Chinese (zh) 獨立報 (英國)		2 370
10	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		1 893

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ذي إندبندنت
az	Azerbaijani The Independent
be	Belarusian The Independent
bg	Bulgarian Индипендънт
ca	Catalan The Independent
cs	Czech The Independent
da	Danish The Independent
de	German The Independent
el	Greek The Independent
en	English The Independent
eo	Esperanto The Independent
es	Spanish The Independent
et	Estonian The Independent
eu	Basque The Independent
fa	Persian ایندیپندنت
fi	Finnish The Independent
fr	French The Independent
gl	Galician The Independent
he	Hebrew אינדפנדנט
hr	Croatian The Independent
hu	Hungarian The Independent
hy	Armenian The Independent
id	Indonesian The Independent
it	Italian The Independent
ja	Japanese インデペンデント
ka	Georgian The Independent
kk	Kazakh The Independent
ko	Korean 인디펜던트
la	Latin The Independent
lt	Lithuanian The Independent
ms	Malay The Independent
nl	Dutch The Independent
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) The Independent
no	Norwegian The Independent
pl	Polish The Independent
pt	Portuguese The Independent
ro	Romanian The Independent
ru	Russian The Independent
sh	Serbo-Croatian The Independent
simple	Simple English The Independent
sk	Slovak The Independent
sl	Slovenian The Independent
sr	Serbian The Independent
sv	Swedish The Independent
th	Thai ดิอินดีเพนเดนต์
tr	Turkish The Independent
uk	Ukrainian Індепендент
ur	Urdu دی انڈپینڈنٹ
uz	Uzbek The Independent
vi	Vietnamese The Independent
zh	Chinese 獨立報 (英國)

Best Rank

Simple English: #12410 08.2010

Global: #20396 05.2010

Best Rank

Simple English: #1813 03.2023

Global: #7825 03.2016

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