The Little Mermaid (1989 movie)

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The Little Mermaid - 1989 animated film directed by John Musker and Ron Clements. This film is the 336^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 114^th most popular film in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Little Mermaid (1989 movie)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 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:

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The 9958^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 114^th most popular in films in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6558^th most popular in all topics.

The 4802^nd most popular in AI.

The 336^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2859^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2316^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3334^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “The Little Mermaid (1989 movie)” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2316^th place) and written by 35 authors in all languages (3334^th place).

Since the creation of article “The Little Mermaid (1989 movie)”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3612 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4802^nd place).

The Little Mermaid is on the 114^th place in local ranking of films in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 336^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 168 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10273 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #111 in October 2012
• Global: #480 in July 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #264 in June 2023
• Global: #567 in June 2023

There are 50 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 Little Mermaid (1989 film)		86.0442
2	Greek (el) Η Μικρή Γοργόνα (ταινία, 1989)		84.4444
3	Portuguese (pt) A Pequena Sereia (filme de 1989)		78.9896
4	Persian (fa) پری دریایی کوچولو (فیلم ۱۹۸۹)		65.6823
5	Italian (it) La sirenetta (film 1989)		62.9607
6	Spanish (es) La sirenita (película de 1989)		57.1988
7	Armenian (hy) Ջրահարսը (մուլտֆիլմ, 1989)		51.5973
8	Dutch (nl) De kleine zeemeermin (1989)		49.7376
9	Russian (ru) Русалочка (мультфильм, 1989)		49.5802
10	Ukrainian (uk) Русалонька (фільм, 1989)		48.9768

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Little Mermaid (1989 film)		17 089 492
2	Japanese (ja) リトル・マーメイド		4 070 696
3	German (de) Arielle, die Meerjungfrau (1989)		2 128 615
4	Spanish (es) La sirenita (película de 1989)		1 994 701
5	French (fr) La Petite Sirène (film, 1989)		1 911 715
6	Italian (it) La sirenetta (film 1989)		1 762 773
7	Russian (ru) Русалочка (мультфильм, 1989)		1 430 554
8	Chinese (zh) 小美人鱼 (1989年电影)		664 060
9	Dutch (nl) De kleine zeemeermin (1989)		552 165
10	Swedish (sv) Den lilla sjöjungfrun (film, 1989)		508 289

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 Little Mermaid (1989 film)		51 295
2	Japanese (ja) リトル・マーメイド		9 806
3	German (de) Arielle, die Meerjungfrau (1989)		8 728
4	Italian (it) La sirenetta (film 1989)		4 882
5	French (fr) La Petite Sirène (film, 1989)		4 789
6	Russian (ru) Русалочка (мультфильм, 1989)		4 767
7	Spanish (es) La sirenita (película de 1989)		4 559
8	Chinese (zh) 小美人鱼 (1989年电影)		2 017
9	Dutch (nl) De kleine zeemeermin (1989)		1 603
10	Simple English (simple) The Little Mermaid (1989 movie)		1 594

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Little Mermaid (1989 film)		1 094
2	Italian (it) La sirenetta (film 1989)		245
3	French (fr) La Petite Sirène (film, 1989)		232
4	German (de) Arielle, die Meerjungfrau (1989)		231
5	Spanish (es) La sirenita (película de 1989)		162
6	Japanese (ja) リトル・マーメイド		158
7	Russian (ru) Русалочка (мультфильм, 1989)		145
8	Hebrew (he) בת הים הקטנה (סרט, 1989)		125
9	Dutch (nl) De kleine zeemeermin (1989)		122
10	Finnish (fi) Pieni merenneito (vuoden 1989 elokuva)		82

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 Little Mermaid (1989 film)		14
2	Italian (it) La sirenetta (film 1989)		6
3	German (de) Arielle, die Meerjungfrau (1989)		2
4	Russian (ru) Русалочка (мультфильм, 1989)		2
5	Simple English (simple) The Little Mermaid (1989 movie)		2
6	Arabic (ar) حورية البحر (فيلم 1989)		1
7	Czech (cs) Malá mořská víla (film, 1989)		1
8	Spanish (es) La sirenita (película de 1989)		1
9	French (fr) La Petite Sirène (film, 1989)		1
10	Croatian (hr) Mala sirena (1989.)		1

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

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