Şamil Basayev

Quality:

Shamil Basayev - Chechen militant Islamist leader (1965-2006). This person is the 4632^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 941^st most popular person in Turkish Wikipedia. Article “Şamil Basayev” in Turkish Wikipedia has 37.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Turkish Wikipedia:

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The 2621^st most popular in Turkish Wikipedia.

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The 4078^th most editable in Turkish Wikipedia.

The 941^st most popular in people in Turkish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4632^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Turkish Wikipedia:

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The 3963^rd most popular in Turkish Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Şamil Basayev” was edited by 1 authors in Turkish Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Şamil Basayev”, its content was written by 90 registered users of Turkish Wikipedia (4078^th place) and edited by 2264 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shamil Basayev is on the 941^st place in local ranking of people in Turkish Wikipedia and on the 4632^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 101 times in Turkish Wikipedia and cited 2890 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Turkish): #152 in July 2006
• Global: #141 in July 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Turkish): #82 in February 2022
• Global: #1445 in March 2022

There are 43 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	Russian (ru) Басаев, Шамиль Салманович		86.1538
2	English (en) Shamil Basayev		75.4727
3	Arabic (ar) شامل باساييف		54.7999
4	Dutch (nl) Sjamil Basajev		45.7106
5	Romanian (ro) Șamil Basaev		44.477
6	Ukrainian (uk) Басаєв Шаміль Салманович		42.3959
7	Turkish (tr) Şamil Basayev		37.3994
8	Chinese (zh) 沙米利·巴萨耶夫		32.2054
9	Armenian (hy) Շամիլ Բասաև		31.301
10	Spanish (es) Shamil Basáyev		30.1568

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Басаев, Шамиль Салманович		10 186 444
2	English (en) Shamil Basayev		3 213 030
3	Turkish (tr) Şamil Basayev		1 022 081
4	Arabic (ar) شامل باساييف		569 605
5	German (de) Schamil Salmanowitsch Bassajew		568 569
6	Polish (pl) Szamil Basajew		566 337
7	French (fr) Chamil Bassaïev		339 140
8	Japanese (ja) シャミル・バサエフ		239 045
9	Ukrainian (uk) Басаєв Шаміль Салманович		233 594
10	Italian (it) Šamil' Salmanovič Basaev		223 538

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Басаев, Шамиль Салманович		55 996
2	English (en) Shamil Basayev		19 433
3	Turkish (tr) Şamil Basayev		4 072
4	Arabic (ar) شامل باساييف		1 931
5	Ukrainian (uk) Басаєв Шаміль Салманович		1 814
6	German (de) Schamil Salmanowitsch Bassajew		1 461
7	Polish (pl) Szamil Basajew		1 253
8	French (fr) Chamil Bassaïev		1 060
9	Japanese (ja) シャミル・バサエフ		890
10	Spanish (es) Shamil Basáyev		886

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shamil Basayev		495
2	Russian (ru) Басаев, Шамиль Салманович		398
3	German (de) Schamil Salmanowitsch Bassajew		169
4	French (fr) Chamil Bassaïev		116
5	Dutch (nl) Sjamil Basajev		103
6	Turkish (tr) Şamil Basayev		90
7	Hebrew (he) שאמיל בסאייב		72
8	Italian (it) Šamil' Salmanovič Basaev		72
9	Ukrainian (uk) Басаєв Шаміль Салманович		68
10	Polish (pl) Szamil Basajew		67

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	Russian (ru) Басаев, Шамиль Салманович		3
2	Arabic (ar) شامل باساييف		2
3	Ukrainian (uk) Басаєв Шаміль Салманович		2
4	English (en) Shamil Basayev		1
5	Italian (it) Šamil' Salmanovič Basaev		1
6	Turkish (tr) Şamil Basayev		1
7	Chinese (zh) 沙米利·巴萨耶夫		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Şamil Basayev		0
9	Belarusian (be) Шаміль Басаеў		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Шамил Басаев		0

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

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