Big Ben

Quality:

Big Ben - tower of the Palace of Westminster, London containing the bell Big Ben. This building is the 19^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 20^th most popular building in English Wikipedia. Article “Big Ben” in English Wikipedia has 99.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 152 references and 20 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4158^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2217^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 20^th most popular in buildings in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3078^th most popular in all topics.

The 3056^th most popular in AI.

The 19^th most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8553^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Big Ben” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Big Ben”, its content was written by 1499 registered users of English Wikipedia (2217^th place) and edited by 4432 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3056^th place).

Big Ben is on the 20^th place in local ranking of buildings in English Wikipedia and on the 19^th place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 1094 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3665 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #311 in August 2017
• Global: #329 in May 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1334 in June 2012
• Global: #1626 in August 2017

There are 48 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) Big Ben		99.1494
2	Chinese (zh) 大本钟		95.1168
3	Czech (cs) Big Ben		85.3064
4	Hindi (hi) बिग बेन		83.9347
5	Portuguese (pt) Big Ben		79.7675
6	Spanish (es) Big Ben		74.1795
7	Slovenian (sl) Big Ben		72.8924
8	Malay (ms) Big Ben		59.1224
9	Finnish (fi) Big Ben		55.8528
10	Romanian (ro) Big Ben		50.1399

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Big Ben		22 320 994
2	German (de) Big Ben		4 928 977
3	Spanish (es) Big Ben		4 106 124
4	French (fr) Big Ben		4 055 853
5	Russian (ru) Биг-Бен		2 919 950
6	Italian (it) Big Ben		2 178 029
7	Japanese (ja) ビッグ・ベン		1 946 475
8	Polish (pl) Big Ben		1 652 203
9	Portuguese (pt) Big Ben		1 603 046
10	Arabic (ar) بيغ بن		891 972

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) Big Ben		63 474
2	German (de) Big Ben		8 804
3	Spanish (es) Big Ben		7 430
4	French (fr) Big Ben		6 932
5	Russian (ru) Биг-Бен		6 670
6	Japanese (ja) ビッグ・ベン		6 080
7	Chinese (zh) 大本钟		3 941
8	Polish (pl) Big Ben		3 215
9	Italian (it) Big Ben		3 175
10	Portuguese (pt) Big Ben		3 074

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Big Ben		1 499
2	French (fr) Big Ben		339
3	German (de) Big Ben		305
4	Italian (it) Big Ben		244
5	Spanish (es) Big Ben		206
6	Russian (ru) Биг-Бен		193
7	Greek (el) Μπιγκ Μπεν		162
8	Polish (pl) Big Ben		135
9	Hebrew (he) ביג בן		112
10	Portuguese (pt) Big Ben		99

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	Czech (cs) Big Ben		3
2	English (en) Big Ben		3
3	Spanish (es) Big Ben		2
4	Italian (it) Big Ben		2
5	Polish (pl) Big Ben		2
6	Russian (ru) Биг-Бен		2
7	Arabic (ar) بيغ بن		1
8	Hebrew (he) ביג בן		1
9	Chinese (zh) 大本钟		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Biq Ben		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