Vlad the Impaler

Quality:

Vlad the Impaler - 15th-century ruler of Wallachia. This person is the 435^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 271^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Vlad the Impaler” in Simple English Wikipedia has 62.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 18 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 2414^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1163^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 271^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1256^th most popular in all topics.

The 1456^th most popular in AI.

The 435^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 606^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1814^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1024^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5699^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Vlad the Impaler” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1814^th place) and written by 27 authors in all languages (5699^th place).

Since the creation of article “Vlad the Impaler”, its content was written by 75 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1163^rd place) and edited by 5611 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1456^th place).

Vlad the Impaler is on the 271^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 435^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4596 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #77 in December 2008
• Global: #232 in October 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #546 in October 2014
• Global: #96 in January 2023

There are 49 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) Vlad the Impaler		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Vlad, o Empalador		100
3	Spanish (es) Vlad el Empalador		94.5359
4	Hebrew (he) ולאד המשפד		94.2767
5	German (de) Vlad III.		88.6667
6	Russian (ru) Влад III Цепеш		88.3526
7	Indonesian (id) Vlad Ţepeş		74.3573
8	Arabic (ar) فلاد الثالث المخوزق		69.6255
9	Italian (it) Vlad III di Valacchia		66.6738
10	Korean (ko) 블라드 3세 체페슈		66.5582

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vlad the Impaler		36 096 068
2	Russian (ru) Влад III Цепеш		7 176 179
3	Spanish (es) Vlad el Empalador		6 789 192
4	German (de) Vlad III.		5 038 911
5	Romanian (ro) Vlad Țepeș		4 049 130
6	Italian (it) Vlad III di Valacchia		3 223 457
7	Japanese (ja) ヴラド・ツェペシュ		2 971 851
8	French (fr) Vlad III l'Empaleur		2 898 897
9	Turkish (tr) III. Vlad		2 312 521
10	Portuguese (pt) Vlad, o Empalador		2 083 371

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) Vlad the Impaler		155 048
2	Turkish (tr) III. Vlad		83 090
3	Russian (ru) Влад III Цепеш		37 612
4	German (de) Vlad III.		22 262
5	Spanish (es) Vlad el Empalador		21 331
6	Arabic (ar) فلاد الثالث المخوزق		16 493
7	Romanian (ro) Vlad Țepeș		13 295
8	Italian (it) Vlad III di Valacchia		11 811
9	Japanese (ja) ヴラド・ツェペシュ		10 822
10	French (fr) Vlad III l'Empaleur		10 210

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Vlad the Impaler		1 700
2	German (de) Vlad III.		406
3	French (fr) Vlad III l'Empaleur		330
4	Spanish (es) Vlad el Empalador		324
5	Italian (it) Vlad III di Valacchia		323
6	Russian (ru) Влад III Цепеш		271
7	Romanian (ro) Vlad Țepeș		171
8	Dutch (nl) Vlad Dracula		159
9	Hebrew (he) ולאד המשפד		150
10	Turkish (tr) III. Vlad		120

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) Vlad the Impaler		7
2	Russian (ru) Влад III Цепеш		3
3	Chinese (zh) 弗拉德三世		3
4	Czech (cs) Vlad III. Dracula		2
5	Spanish (es) Vlad el Empalador		2
6	Croatian (hr) Vlad III. Drakula		2
7	Italian (it) Vlad III di Valacchia		2
8	Simple English (simple) Vlad the Impaler		2
9	Turkish (tr) III. Vlad		2
10	Arabic (ar) فلاد الثالث المخوزق		1

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

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