Ivan the Terrible

Quality:

Ivan IV Vasilyevich - Tsar of Russia from 1547 to 1584. This person is the 773^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article "Ivan the Terrible" in English Wikipedia has 89.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 147 references and 32 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6753^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3642^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2515^th most popular in all topics.

The 2035^th most popular in AI.

The 773^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6663^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3768^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8966^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Ivan the Terrible" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 25 authors in all languages (8966^th place).

Since the creation of article "Ivan the Terrible", its content was written by 1225 registered users of English Wikipedia (3642^nd place) and edited by 4879 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2035^th place).

Ivan IV Vasilyevich is on the 773^rd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1165 times in English Wikipedia and cited 15683 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #458 in January 2011
• Global: #315 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #934 in November 2019
• Global: #359 in November 2020

There are 53 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Иван Грозный		98.4321
2	Portuguese (pt) Ivã IV da Rússia		90.7695
3	Ukrainian (uk) Іван Грозний		90.5566
4	English (en) Ivan the Terrible		89.612
5	German (de) Iwan IV. (Russland)		69.8537
6	Hungarian (hu) IV. Iván orosz cár		61.8646
7	Japanese (ja) イヴァン4世		61.8122
8	Estonian (et) Ivan Julm		52.6998
9	Italian (it) Ivan IV di Russia		47.4425
10	Slovenian (sl) Ivan IV. Vasiljevič Grozni		44.5825

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Иван Грозный		21 185 672
2	English (en) Ivan the Terrible		16 545 584
3	Spanish (es) Iván IV de Rusia		2 965 177
4	German (de) Iwan IV. (Russland)		2 259 068
5	Japanese (ja) イヴァン4世		1 784 741
6	French (fr) Ivan le Terrible		1 514 522
7	Polish (pl) Iwan IV Groźny		1 433 975
8	Italian (it) Ivan IV di Russia		1 156 279
9	Portuguese (pt) Ivã IV da Rússia		756 011
10	Chinese (zh) 伊凡四世		621 893

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) Ivan the Terrible		94 790
2	Russian (ru) Иван Грозный		67 036
3	Spanish (es) Iván IV de Rusia		10 587
4	German (de) Iwan IV. (Russland)		8 709
5	Japanese (ja) イヴァン4世		6 403
6	French (fr) Ivan le Terrible		5 049
7	Persian (fa) ایوان مخوف		4 968
8	Polish (pl) Iwan IV Groźny		4 497
9	Italian (it) Ivan IV di Russia		4 310
10	Portuguese (pt) Ivã IV da Rússia		3 068

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ivan the Terrible		1 225
2	Russian (ru) Иван Грозный		753
3	German (de) Iwan IV. (Russland)		293
4	French (fr) Ivan le Terrible		224
5	Italian (it) Ivan IV di Russia		204
6	Spanish (es) Iván IV de Rusia		181
7	Ukrainian (uk) Іван Грозний		128
8	Polish (pl) Iwan IV Groźny		123
9	Dutch (nl) Ivan IV van Rusland		106
10	Japanese (ja) イヴァン4世		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	Russian (ru) Иван Грозный		13
2	English (en) Ivan the Terrible		5
3	German (de) Iwan IV. (Russland)		3
4	Hebrew (he) איוואן הרביעי		1
5	Georgian (ka) ივანე მრისხანე		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Ivã IV da Rússia		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Іван Грозний		1
8	Arabic (ar) إيفان الرهيب		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) IV İvan Qroznı		0
10	Belarusian (be) Іван IV Грозны		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 August, 2024. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from July 2024 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2023... More information