Saddam Hussein

Quality:

Saddam Hussein - Iraqi president, army officer and Baathist politician. This person is the 265^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 421^st most popular person in English Wikipedia. On English Wikipedia article about Saddam Hussein recently has been very popular. Article "Saddam Hussein" in English Wikipedia has 95.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 345 references and 25 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 851^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 91^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 421^st most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 704^th most popular in all topics.

The 201^st most popular in AI.

The 265^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1496^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 7815^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 823^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1544^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Saddam Hussein" was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (7815^th place) and written by 59 authors in all languages (1544^th place).

Since the creation of article "Saddam Hussein", its content was written by 3280 registered users of English Wikipedia (91^st place) and edited by 10121 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (201^st place).

Saddam Hussein is on the 421^st place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 265^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 4061 times in English Wikipedia (5919^th place) and cited 23610 times in all languages (6686^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in December 2003
• Global: #1 in December 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #196 in May 2011
• Global: #207 in May 2011

There are 54 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	German (de) Saddam Hussein		95.7143
2	English (en) Saddam Hussein		95.2583
3	Arabic (ar) صدام حسين		94.3503
4	Polish (pl) Saddam Husajn		89.1408
5	Kazakh (kk) Саддам Хусейн		87.0168
6	Russian (ru) Саддам Хусейн		86.9882
7	Vietnamese (vi) Saddam Hussein		85.7061
8	Hebrew (he) סדאם חוסיין		79.6517
9	Spanish (es) Sadam Huseín		76.9601
10	Italian (it) Saddam Hussein		76.9009

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Saddam Hussein		44 703 429
2	Arabic (ar) صدام حسين		11 264 570
3	Russian (ru) Саддам Хусейн		6 798 774
4	Spanish (es) Sadam Huseín		5 818 898
5	German (de) Saddam Hussein		5 228 735
6	French (fr) Saddam Hussein		4 635 175
7	Persian (fa) صدام حسین		3 331 249
8	Japanese (ja) サッダーム・フセイン		3 102 251
9	Italian (it) Saddam Hussein		2 639 219
10	Turkish (tr) Saddam Hüseyin		2 571 794

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) Saddam Hussein		233 733
2	Arabic (ar) صدام حسين		55 849
3	Russian (ru) Саддам Хусейн		49 344
4	Spanish (es) Sadam Huseín		30 773
5	German (de) Saddam Hussein		29 811
6	Persian (fa) صدام حسین		26 156
7	Turkish (tr) Saddam Hüseyin		21 309
8	French (fr) Saddam Hussein		19 442
9	Chinese (zh) 萨达姆·侯赛因		15 552
10	Italian (it) Saddam Hussein		13 752

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Saddam Hussein		3 280
2	German (de) Saddam Hussein		749
3	French (fr) Saddam Hussein		539
4	Russian (ru) Саддам Хусейн		418
5	Spanish (es) Sadam Huseín		383
6	Italian (it) Saddam Hussein		380
7	Arabic (ar) صدام حسين		379
8	Dutch (nl) Saddam Hoessein		279
9	Japanese (ja) サッダーム・フセイン		274
10	Hebrew (he) סדאם חוסיין		232

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) Saddam Hussein		11
2	Spanish (es) Sadam Huseín		8
3	Italian (it) Saddam Hussein		5
4	Japanese (ja) サッダーム・フセイン		5
5	Russian (ru) Саддам Хусейн		5
6	Turkish (tr) Saddam Hüseyin		5
7	Arabic (ar) صدام حسين		4
8	Persian (fa) صدام حسین		3
9	French (fr) Saddam Hussein		3
10	Hebrew (he) סדאם חוסיין		2

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