West Side Story

Quality:

West Side Story - American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Article “West Side Story” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 6 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 9750^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9695^th most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2861^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “West Side Story” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2861^st place) and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “West Side Story”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9750^th place) and edited by 2471 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 39 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7077 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #561 in November 2018
• Global: #262 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5180 in May 2009
• Global: #354 in December 2021

There are 35 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) West Side Story		87.8147
2	Italian (it) West Side Story		85.2632
3	Catalan (ca) West Side Story (musical)		62.5636
4	French (fr) West Side Story		53.4576
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) West Side Story		52.8518
6	Spanish (es) West Side Story (musical)		44.4594
7	Swedish (sv) West Side Story		38.1974
8	Ukrainian (uk) Вестсайдська історія (мюзикл)		35.5943
9	Japanese (ja) ウエスト・サイド物語		34.9698
10	Hungarian (hu) West Side Story (musical)		31.4961

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) West Side Story		18 796 305
2	German (de) West Side Story		2 801 965
3	Japanese (ja) ウエスト・サイド物語		2 133 928
4	French (fr) West Side Story		1 772 425
5	Italian (it) West Side Story		869 389
6	Chinese (zh) 西城故事		404 161
7	Spanish (es) West Side Story (musical)		379 581
8	Russian (ru) Вестсайдская история (мюзикл)		369 712
9	Swedish (sv) West Side Story		315 597
10	Polish (pl) West Side Story		205 175

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) West Side Story		45 765
2	French (fr) West Side Story		13 173
3	German (de) West Side Story		7 416
4	Japanese (ja) ウエスト・サイド物語		4 052
5	Dutch (nl) West Side Story (toneelmusical)		2 281
6	Italian (it) West Side Story		2 083
7	Hebrew (he) סיפור הפרברים (מחזמר)		1 124
8	Chinese (zh) 西城故事		1 071
9	Czech (cs) West Side Story		896
10	Russian (ru) Вестсайдская история (мюзикл)		785

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) West Side Story		1 184
2	German (de) West Side Story		307
3	French (fr) West Side Story		153
4	Italian (it) West Side Story		109
5	Japanese (ja) ウエスト・サイド物語		107
6	Dutch (nl) West Side Story (toneelmusical)		83
7	Hebrew (he) סיפור הפרברים (מחזמר)		75
8	Swedish (sv) West Side Story		51
9	Czech (cs) West Side Story		43
10	Chinese (zh) 西城故事		41

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) West Side Story		3
2	Polish (pl) West Side Story		3
3	German (de) West Side Story		2
4	Japanese (ja) ウエスト・サイド物語		2
5	Persian (fa) داستان وست ساید		1
6	French (fr) West Side Story		1
7	Italian (it) West Side Story		1
8	Simple English (simple) West Side Story		1
9	Bulgarian (bg) Уестсайдска история		0
10	Catalan (ca) West Side Story (musical)		0

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

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