Joseph Stalin

Quality:

Joseph Stalin - leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. This person is the 33^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 86^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Joseph Stalin” in Simple English Wikipedia has 86.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 20 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 762^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 462^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 86^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 96^th most popular in all topics.

The 28^th most popular in AI.

The 33^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 304^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 397^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 263^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 428^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Joseph Stalin” was edited by 4 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (397^th place) and written by 92 authors in all languages (428^th place).

Since the creation of article “Joseph Stalin”, its content was written by 116 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (462^nd place) and edited by 16143 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (28^th place).

Joseph Stalin is on the 86^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 33^rd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 343 times in Simple English Wikipedia (8888^th place) and cited 81975 times in all languages (2041^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #7 in February 2025
• Global: #11 in March 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #113 in January 2025
• Global: #36 in March 2022

There are 55 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) Joseph Stalin		100
2	German (de) Josef Stalin		100
3	Portuguese (pt) Josef Stalin		100
4	Persian (fa) ژوزف استالین		100
5	Polish (pl) Józef Stalin		100
6	Turkish (tr) Josef Stalin		100
7	Indonesian (id) Josef Stalin		100
8	Vietnamese (vi) Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin		100
9	Finnish (fi) Josif Stalin		100
10	Catalan (ca) Ióssif Stalin		100

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Joseph Stalin		81 580 310
2	Russian (ru) Сталин, Иосиф Виссарионович		35 277 174
3	Spanish (es) Iósif Stalin		16 173 726
4	French (fr) Joseph Staline		11 131 077
5	German (de) Josef Stalin		11 063 944
6	Japanese (ja) ヨシフ・スターリン		8 348 493
7	Polish (pl) Józef Stalin		7 817 805
8	Italian (it) Iosif Stalin		6 216 839
9	Portuguese (pt) Josef Stalin		5 699 495
10	Chinese (zh) 约瑟夫·斯大林		3 846 662

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) Joseph Stalin		333 858
2	Russian (ru) Сталин, Иосиф Виссарионович		127 315
3	Spanish (es) Iósif Stalin		47 920
4	German (de) Josef Stalin		38 706
5	French (fr) Joseph Staline		34 660
6	Japanese (ja) ヨシフ・スターリン		32 449
7	Italian (it) Iosif Stalin		24 358
8	Chinese (zh) 约瑟夫·斯大林		23 316
9	Portuguese (pt) Josef Stalin		21 523
10	Persian (fa) ژوزف استالین		20 417

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Joseph Stalin		3 733
2	Russian (ru) Сталин, Иосиф Виссарионович		1 279
3	German (de) Josef Stalin		973
4	French (fr) Joseph Staline		827
5	Spanish (es) Iósif Stalin		799
6	Italian (it) Iosif Stalin		721
7	Polish (pl) Józef Stalin		522
8	Dutch (nl) Jozef Stalin		485
9	Japanese (ja) ヨシフ・スターリン		446
10	Hebrew (he) יוסיף סטלין		415

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) Joseph Stalin		19
2	Spanish (es) Iósif Stalin		8
3	German (de) Josef Stalin		6
4	French (fr) Joseph Staline		5
5	Japanese (ja) ヨシフ・スターリン		5
6	Turkish (tr) Josef Stalin		5
7	Russian (ru) Сталин, Иосиф Виссарионович		4
8	Simple English (simple) Joseph Stalin		4
9	Arabic (ar) يوسف ستالين		3
10	Catalan (ca) Ióssif Stalin		3

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