Wikinews

Quality:

Wikinews - free online multilingual news. This website is the 396^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 71^st most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Wikinews” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hindi Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 9945^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 9093^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 71^st most popular in websites in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 396^th most popular in websites.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 2829^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8775^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Wikinews” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2829^th place) and written by 22 authors in all languages (8775^th place).

Since the creation of article “Wikinews”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9093^rd place) and edited by 1993 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wikinews is on the 71^st place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 396^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 40 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10444 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #641 in January 2012
• Global: #300 in May 2026

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #52 in August 2011
• Global: #21578 in July 2020

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, 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	Hindi (hi) विकिसमाचार		58.0533
2	English (en) Wikinews		51.493
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Wikinews		43.0413
4	Slovak (sk) Wikisprávy		41.5907
5	Chinese (zh) 维基新闻		36.7174
6	German (de) Wikinews		36.2413
7	Greek (el) Βικινέα		35.915
8	Dutch (nl) Wikinieuws		35.7902
9	French (fr) Wikinews		33.9612
10	Malay (ms) Wikinews		31.7915

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wikinews		1 752 818
2	Spanish (es) Wikinoticias		475 637
3	Russian (ru) Викиновости		405 823
4	Polish (pl) Wikinews		278 345
5	Italian (it) Wikinotizie		202 957
6	Chinese (zh) 维基新闻		164 430
7	French (fr) Wikinews		142 252
8	Portuguese (pt) Wikinotícias		113 921
9	German (de) Wikinews		110 423
10	Persian (fa) ویکی‌خبر		100 274

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) Wikinews		10 226
2	Russian (ru) Викиновости		743
3	Chinese (zh) 维基新闻		572
4	Spanish (es) Wikinoticias		408
5	French (fr) Wikinews		318
6	Korean (ko) 위키뉴스		299
7	Japanese (ja) ウィキニュース		271
8	Persian (fa) ویکی‌خبر		260
9	German (de) Wikinews		257
10	Portuguese (pt) Wikinotícias		217

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wikinews		422
2	German (de) Wikinews		165
3	Russian (ru) Викиновости		116
4	French (fr) Wikinews		109
5	Spanish (es) Wikinoticias		82
6	Dutch (nl) Wikinieuws		75
7	Chinese (zh) 维基新闻		74
8	Italian (it) Wikinotizie		63
9	Hebrew (he) ויקיחדשות		61
10	Polish (pl) Wikinews		55

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) Wikinews		6
2	French (fr) Wikinews		3
3	Czech (cs) Wikizprávy		2
4	Russian (ru) Викиновости		2
5	Ukrainian (uk) Вікіновини		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Vikixəbər		1
7	Hindi (hi) विकिसमाचार		1
8	Korean (ko) 위키뉴스		1
9	Romanian (ro) Wikiștiri		1
10	Simple English (simple) Wikinews		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information