Candide oder der Optimismus

Quality:

Candide - 1759 book by Voltaire. This book is the 190^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 457^th most popular book in German Wikipedia. Article "Candide oder der Optimismus" in German Wikipedia has 50 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 17 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 457^th most popular in books in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 190^th most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article "Candide oder der Optimismus" was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Candide oder der Optimismus", its content was written by 111 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2080 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Candide is on the 457^th place in local ranking of books in German Wikipedia and on the 190^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 200 times in German Wikipedia and cited 2065 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #6255 in October 2012
• Global: #1630 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #19703 in March 2009
• Global: #5514 in October 2009

There are 37 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) Candide		94.8438
2	Serbian (sr) Кандид		79.3676
3	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		69.5342
4	Bulgarian (bg) Кандид или оптимизмът		68.2541
5	French (fr) Candide		62.0143
6	Hungarian (hu) Candide		60.1228
7	Italian (it) Candido		56.0928
8	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		49.9754
9	Catalan (ca) Càndid o l'optimisme		35.1858
10	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		34.313

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Candide		7 536 792
2	French (fr) Candide		7 294 335
3	Italian (it) Candido		1 290 252
4	Spanish (es) Cándido		878 950
5	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		804 479
6	Russian (ru) Кандид, или Оптимизм		550 333
7	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		484 125
8	Swedish (sv) Candide		469 857
9	Portuguese (pt) Cândido, ou O Otimismo		464 699
10	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		353 042

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) Candide		26 598
2	French (fr) Candide		11 768
3	Italian (it) Candido		3 302
4	Portuguese (pt) Cândido, ou O Otimismo		2 672
5	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		2 454
6	Russian (ru) Кандид, или Оптимизм		2 165
7	Spanish (es) Cándido		1 864
8	Japanese (ja) カンディード		1 086
9	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		659
10	Dutch (nl) Candide		564

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Candide		556
2	French (fr) Candide		445
3	Italian (it) Candido		142
4	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		111
5	Dutch (nl) Candide		72
6	Spanish (es) Cándido		69
7	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		58
8	Swedish (sv) Candide		57
9	Hebrew (he) קנדיד		53
10	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		48

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) Candide		2
2	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		1
3	Catalan (ca) Càndid o l'optimisme		1
4	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		1
5	French (fr) Candide		1
6	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		1
7	Urdu (ur) کاندید		1
8	Bulgarian (bg) Кандид или оптимизмът		0
9	Czech (cs) Candide		0
10	Danish (da) Candide		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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