II. Selim

Quality:

Selim II - 11th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1566–1574). This person is the 1942^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 21^st most popular person in Turkish Wikipedia. Article “II. Selim” in Turkish Wikipedia has 68 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 30 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Turkish Wikipedia:

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The 42^nd most popular in Turkish Wikipedia.

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The 308^th most editable in Turkish Wikipedia.

The 21^st most popular in people in Turkish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6745^th most popular in all topics.

The 1942^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Turkish Wikipedia:

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The 61^st most popular in Turkish Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 327^th most editable in Turkish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6311^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7037^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “II. Selim” was edited by 5 authors in Turkish Wikipedia (327^th place) and written by 25 authors in all languages (7037^th place).

Since the creation of article “II. Selim”, its content was written by 256 registered users of Turkish Wikipedia (308^th place) and edited by 2079 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Selim II is on the 21^st place in local ranking of people in Turkish Wikipedia and on the 1942^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 537 times in Turkish Wikipedia (5851^st place) and cited 5534 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Turkish): #61 in February 2022
• Global: #1600 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Turkish): #5 in June 2014
• Global: #835 in June 2014

There are 51 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) Selim II		92.4515
2	Turkish (tr) II. Selim		67.9928
3	Chinese (zh) 塞利姆二世		48.6726
4	Japanese (ja) セリム2世		43.4921
5	Persian (fa) سلیم دوم		34.798
6	Azerbaijani (az) II Səlim		33.4526
7	Hungarian (hu) II. Szelim oszmán szultán		32.1475
8	Urdu (ur) سلیم ثانی		31.5121
9	Malay (ms) Selim II		31.1179
10	Croatian (hr) Selim II.		29.5643

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Селим II		8 159 628
2	Turkish (tr) II. Selim		7 295 499
3	English (en) Selim II		4 929 646
4	Spanish (es) Selim II		2 581 375
5	Arabic (ar) سليم الثاني		2 433 803
6	Polish (pl) Selim II		1 725 080
7	Persian (fa) سلیم دوم		974 728
8	Hungarian (hu) II. Szelim oszmán szultán		638 241
9	French (fr) Sélim II		625 294
10	Ukrainian (uk) Селім II		521 024

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Turkish (tr) II. Selim		47 345
2	English (en) Selim II		29 923
3	Russian (ru) Селим II		23 248
4	Arabic (ar) سليم الثاني		10 936
5	Spanish (es) Selim II		9 987
6	Romanian (ro) Selim al II-lea		5 920
7	Persian (fa) سلیم دوم		4 263
8	French (fr) Sélim II		2 507
9	Ukrainian (uk) Селім II		2 274
10	Polish (pl) Selim II		1 992

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Selim II		292
2	Turkish (tr) II. Selim		256
3	Russian (ru) Селим II		139
4	German (de) Selim II.		117
5	French (fr) Sélim II		112
6	Arabic (ar) سليم الثاني		84
7	Italian (it) Selim II		81
8	Hungarian (hu) II. Szelim oszmán szultán		80
9	Dutch (nl) Selim II		69
10	Spanish (es) Selim II		65

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) Selim II		10
2	Turkish (tr) II. Selim		5
3	German (de) Selim II.		3
4	Persian (fa) سلیم دوم		2
5	French (fr) Sélim II		2
6	Hebrew (he) סלים השני		2
7	Hungarian (hu) II. Szelim oszmán szultán		1
8	Arabic (ar) سليم الثاني		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) II Səlim		0
10	Belarusian (be) Селім II		0

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

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