V. S. Naipaul

Quality:

V. S. Naipaul - Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018). Article “V. S. Naipaul” in Swedish Wikipedia has 25.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Swedish) language version.

Since the creation of article “V. S. Naipaul”, its content was written by 50 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia and edited by 2207 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 166 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 7792 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Swedish): #32 in August 2018
• Global: #27 in August 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Swedish): #2650 in August 2018
• Global: #1350 in August 2018

There are 52 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) V. S. Naipaul		100
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) V.S. Naipaul		81.25
3	Turkish (tr) V. S. Naipaul		41.1009
4	Indonesian (id) Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul		40.3487
5	Malay (ms) V. S. Naipaul		38.9657
6	Norwegian (no) V.S. Naipaul		38.5853
7	Portuguese (pt) Vidiadhar Naipaul		38.2564
8	Georgian (ka) ვიდიადჰარ ნაიპოლი		37.0369
9	Persian (fa) وی. اس. نایپل		36.7635
10	Tamil (ta) வி. சூ. நைப்பால்		35.8411

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) V. S. Naipaul		4 666 010
2	Spanish (es) V. S. Naipaul		266 646
3	German (de) V. S. Naipaul		203 753
4	French (fr) V. S. Naipaul		199 462
5	Italian (it) Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul		162 995
6	Russian (ru) Найпол, Видиадхар Сураджпрасад		144 970
7	Chinese (zh) V·S·奈波爾		129 308
8	Polish (pl) V.S. Naipaul		117 391
9	Japanese (ja) V・S・ナイポール		98 461
10	Dutch (nl) V.S. Naipaul		81 456

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) V. S. Naipaul		13 397
2	German (de) V. S. Naipaul		647
3	Spanish (es) V. S. Naipaul		571
4	Chinese (zh) V·S·奈波爾		520
5	French (fr) V. S. Naipaul		480
6	Italian (it) Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul		441
7	Russian (ru) Найпол, Видиадхар Сураджпрасад		288
8	Japanese (ja) V・S・ナイポール		261
9	Dutch (nl) V.S. Naipaul		218
10	Swedish (sv) V. S. Naipaul		211

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) V. S. Naipaul		542
2	French (fr) V. S. Naipaul		136
3	German (de) V. S. Naipaul		133
4	Italian (it) Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul		89
5	Russian (ru) Найпол, Видиадхар Сураджпрасад		87
6	Dutch (nl) V.S. Naipaul		79
7	Spanish (es) V. S. Naipaul		73
8	Polish (pl) V.S. Naipaul		59
9	Hebrew (he) וידיאדר סורג'פרסאד נייפול		57
10	Hungarian (hu) Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul		51

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	Catalan (ca) V. S. Naipaul		2
2	Arabic (ar) فيديادر سوراجبراساد نيبول		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Видиядхар Сураджпрасад Найпол		1
4	English (en) V. S. Naipaul		1
5	Italian (it) Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul		1
6	Polish (pl) V.S. Naipaul		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Vidiadxar Suracprasad Naypol		0
8	Belarusian (be) Відзьядхар Сураджпрасад Найпал		0
9	Czech (cs) V. S. Naipaul		0
10	Danish (da) V.S. Naipaul		0

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

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