The Independent

The Independent - British national daily newspaper. This website is the 188^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 203^rd most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Independent” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 1518 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Independent is on the 203^rd place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 188^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 572 times in Simple English Wikipedia (3196^th place) and cited 88374 times in all languages (1708^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1821 in March 2023
• Global: #7802 in March 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12369 in August 2010
• Global: #20051 in February 2017

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 Independent		75.3015
2	Estonian (et) The Independent		35.6629
3	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		33.5853
4	Turkish (tr) The Independent		33.4545
5	Georgian (ka) The Independent		31.1894
6	Russian (ru) The Independent		30.7077
7	Catalan (ca) The Independent		30.2021
8	Hebrew (he) אינדפנדנט		29.3686
9	French (fr) The Independent		28.1669
10	Bulgarian (bg) Индипендънт		27.4487

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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		7 652 104
2	German (de) The Independent		373 536
3	Russian (ru) The Independent		354 461
4	French (fr) The Independent		305 273
5	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		224 005
6	Spanish (es) The Independent		157 498
7	Italian (it) The Independent		134 697
8	Persian (fa) ایندیپندنت		102 181
9	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		98 571
10	Polish (pl) The Independent		93 946

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Independent		26 741
2	Russian (ru) The Independent		1 109
3	German (de) The Independent		664
4	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		637
5	Chinese (zh) 獨立報 (英國)		630
6	French (fr) The Independent		550
7	Persian (fa) ایندیپندنت		540
8	Turkish (tr) The Independent		396
9	Spanish (es) The Independent		336
10	Italian (it) The Independent		297

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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		671
2	German (de) The Independent		103
3	French (fr) The Independent		74
4	Russian (ru) The Independent		61
5	Italian (it) The Independent		46
6	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		41
7	Dutch (nl) The Independent		38
8	Chinese (zh) 獨立報 (英國)		32
9	Finnish (fi) The Independent		30
10	Ukrainian (uk) Індепендент		28

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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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Independent		9
2	Hungarian (hu) The Independent		1
3	Ukrainian (uk) Індепендент		1
4	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) The Independent		0
6	Belarusian (be) The Independent		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Индипендънт		0
8	Catalan (ca) The Independent		0
9	Czech (cs) The Independent		0
10	Danish (da) The Independent		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		41 196
2	Russian (ru) The Independent		4 266
3	French (fr) The Independent		4 005
4	Spanish (es) The Independent		3 736
5	German (de) The Independent		3 228
6	Portuguese (pt) The Independent		2 819
7	Arabic (ar) ذي إندبندنت		2 406
8	Italian (it) The Independent		2 342
9	Chinese (zh) 獨立報 (英國)		2 103
10	Japanese (ja) インデペンデント		1 692

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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 ดิอินดีเพ็นเดนต์
tr	Turkish The Independent
uk	Ukrainian Індепендент
ur	Urdu دی انڈیپنڈنٹ
vi	Vietnamese The Independent
zh	Chinese 獨立報 (英國)

Best Rank

Simple English: #12369 08.2010

Global: #20051 02.2017

Best Rank

Simple English: #1821 03.2023

Global: #7802 03.2016

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