The Lion King 1½

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The Lion King 1½ - 2004 animated film directed by Bradley Raymond. This film is the 2451^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 278^th most popular film in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Lion King 1½” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.22 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 7162^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 278^th most popular in films in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2451^st most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6561^st most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Lion King 1½”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7162^nd place) and edited by 1749 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Lion King 1½ is on the 278^th place in local ranking of films in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2451^st place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 56 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3413 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #84 in September 2012
• Global: #1972 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2441 in April 2025
• Global: #3093 in July 2019

There are 37 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 Lion King 1½		46.8381
2	Greek (el) Ο Βασιλιάς των Λιονταριών 3: Χακούνα Ματάτα		39.2984
3	Chinese (zh) 狮子王3：Hakuna Matata		27.2098
4	Russian (ru) Король Лев 3: Хакуна матата		25.2547
5	Simple English (simple) The Lion King 1½		23.9316
6	Indonesian (id) The Lion King 1½		21.1531
7	Armenian (hy) Առյուծ արքան 3։ Հակունա մատատա		21.0277
8	Italian (it) Il re leone 3 - Hakuna Matata		19.4213
9	Arabic (ar) الأسد الملك 3: هاكونا ماتاتا		17.8872
10	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング3 ハクナ・マタタ		17.7496

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Lion King 1½		5 037 852
2	Russian (ru) Король Лев 3: Хакуна матата		639 543
3	Spanish (es) El rey león 3: Hakuna Matata		615 192
4	Italian (it) Il re leone 3 - Hakuna Matata		529 911
5	German (de) Der König der Löwen 3 – Hakuna Matata		448 198
6	French (fr) Le Roi lion 3		427 997
7	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング3 ハクナ・マタタ		343 223
8	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão 3 - Hakuna Matata		294 154
9	Chinese (zh) 狮子王3：Hakuna Matata		241 709
10	Polish (pl) Król lew 3: Hakuna matata		201 431

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 Lion King 1½		15 431
2	Russian (ru) Король Лев 3: Хакуна матата		2 605
3	Spanish (es) El rey león 3: Hakuna Matata		1 091
4	French (fr) Le Roi lion 3		1 056
5	German (de) Der König der Löwen 3 – Hakuna Matata		1 021
6	Italian (it) Il re leone 3 - Hakuna Matata		1 006
7	Chinese (zh) 狮子王3：Hakuna Matata		904
8	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング3 ハクナ・マタタ		748
9	Hebrew (he) מלך האריות 3: האקונה מאטאטה		293
10	Polish (pl) Król lew 3: Hakuna matata		271

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Lion King 1½		570
2	French (fr) Le Roi lion 3		130
3	Italian (it) Il re leone 3 - Hakuna Matata		127
4	Russian (ru) Король Лев 3: Хакуна матата		86
5	German (de) Der König der Löwen 3 – Hakuna Matata		77
6	Spanish (es) El rey león 3: Hakuna Matata		77
7	Dutch (nl) The Lion King III		58
8	Hebrew (he) מלך האריות 3: האקונה מאטאטה		57
9	Japanese (ja) ライオン・キング3 ハクナ・マタタ		51
10	Portuguese (pt) O Rei Leão 3 - Hakuna Matata		49

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 Lion King 1½		17
2	Hungarian (hu) Az oroszlánkirály 3. – Hakuna Matata		3
3	Italian (it) Il re leone 3 - Hakuna Matata		2
4	Spanish (es) El rey león 3: Hakuna Matata		1
5	Finnish (fi) Leijonakuningas 3 – Hakuna Matata		1
6	Polish (pl) Król lew 3: Hakuna matata		1
7	Urdu (ur) دی لائن کنگ 1½		1
8	Arabic (ar) الأسد الملك 3: هاكونا ماتاتا		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Kral Şir 3: Hakuna Matata (cizgi filmi, 2004)		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Цар лъв 3: Хакуна матата		0

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

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