PayPal

Quality:

PayPal - American worldwide online payments system. This company is the 34^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 15^th most popular company in German Wikipedia and the 11^th most popular website in German Wikipedia and the 1^st most popular software in German Wikipedia. Article “PayPal” in German Wikipedia has 80.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 80 references and 23 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 884^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 1561^st most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 15^th most popular in business in German Wikipedia.

The 11^th most popular in websites in German Wikipedia.

The 1^st most popular in software in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2073^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1976^th most popular in AI.

The 34^th most popular in business.

The 27^th most popular in websites.

The 10^th most popular in software.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 919^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4466^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “PayPal”, its content was written by 535 registered users of German Wikipedia (1561^st place) and edited by 5056 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1976^th place).

PayPal is on the 15^th place in local ranking of business in German Wikipedia and on the 34^th place in global ranking of business in all the time.

PayPal is on the 11^th place in local ranking of websites in German Wikipedia and on the 27^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

PayPal is on the 1^st place in local ranking of software in German Wikipedia and on the 10^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 441 times in German Wikipedia and cited 7415 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #194 in December 2010
• Global: #438 in June 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #31 in November 2014
• Global: #568 in June 2008

There are 50 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) PayPal		89.8238
2	German (de) PayPal		80.5054
3	Korean (ko) 페이팔		56.9192
4	Malay (ms) PayPal		49.7917
5	Kazakh (kk) PayPal		48.5388
6	Arabic (ar) باي بال		48.0535
7	Russian (ru) PayPal		47.4968
8	Swedish (sv) Paypal		45.3344
9	French (fr) PayPal		44.4498
10	Simple English (simple) PayPal		40.2954

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) PayPal		27 304 484
2	German (de) PayPal		7 535 005
3	Spanish (es) PayPal		4 539 260
4	Russian (ru) PayPal		4 075 115
5	French (fr) PayPal		3 440 690
6	Japanese (ja) PayPal		2 795 114
7	Italian (it) PayPal		2 521 715
8	Chinese (zh) PayPal		1 606 203
9	Arabic (ar) باي بال		1 431 780
10	Portuguese (pt) PayPal		1 430 815

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) PayPal		91 074
2	German (de) PayPal		30 396
3	Spanish (es) PayPal		9 473
4	Russian (ru) PayPal		9 031
5	French (fr) PayPal		8 996
6	Italian (it) PayPal		8 260
7	Japanese (ja) PayPal		6 677
8	Chinese (zh) PayPal		4 563
9	Arabic (ar) باي بال		2 593
10	Polish (pl) PayPal		1 812

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) PayPal		1 723
2	German (de) PayPal		535
3	French (fr) PayPal		332
4	Russian (ru) PayPal		212
5	Italian (it) PayPal		207
6	Spanish (es) PayPal		164
7	Chinese (zh) PayPal		157
8	Dutch (nl) PayPal		147
9	Hebrew (he) PayPal		102
10	Japanese (ja) PayPal		101

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) PayPal		11
2	French (fr) PayPal		3
3	Chinese (zh) PayPal		2
4	Spanish (es) PayPal		1
5	Japanese (ja) PayPal		1
6	Korean (ko) 페이팔		1
7	Russian (ru) PayPal		1
8	Swedish (sv) Paypal		1
9	Arabic (ar) باي بال		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) PayPal		0

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information