Sesam

Quality:

Sesamum indicum - flowering plant cultivated for its edible seeds. This taxon is the 342^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 726^th most popular taxon in German Wikipedia. Article “Sesam” in German Wikipedia has 60.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 34 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.2 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

The 726^th most popular in taxon in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 342^nd most popular in taxon.

In June 2026 the article “Sesam” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sesam”, its content was written by 153 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 2134 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sesamum indicum is on the 726^th place in local ranking of taxon in German Wikipedia and on the 342^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 283 times in German Wikipedia and cited 8707 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2338 in November 2021
• Global: #787 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #11967 in February 2021
• Global: #9304 in November 2013

There are 49 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, 2026 (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) Sesame		92.3398
2	Hebrew (he) שומשום		71.3444
3	Swedish (sv) Sesam (växt)		70.7819
4	Turkish (tr) Susam		61.0461
5	German (de) Sesam		60.7326
6	French (fr) Sésame		59.8027
7	Chinese (zh) 芝麻		56.9149
8	Japanese (ja) ゴマ		51.3319
9	Malay (ms) Bijan		45.4623
10	Arabic (ar) سمسم		43.6123

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sesame		8 676 581
2	Spanish (es) Sesamum indicum		2 292 735
3	Japanese (ja) ゴマ		1 881 564
4	German (de) Sesam		1 459 645
5	French (fr) Sésame		1 246 958
6	Arabic (ar) سمسم		921 962
7	Chinese (zh) 芝麻		824 861
8	Portuguese (pt) Sesamum indicum		623 061
9	Persian (fa) کنجد		534 813
10	Russian (ru) Кунжут индийский		523 997

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) Sesame		24 968
2	German (de) Sesam		4 600
3	Japanese (ja) ゴマ		4 152
4	French (fr) Sésame		3 876
5	Spanish (es) Sesamum indicum		3 496
6	Chinese (zh) 芝麻		2 340
7	Italian (it) Sesamum indicum		1 198
8	Portuguese (pt) Sesamum indicum		1 059
9	Persian (fa) کنجد		995
10	Russian (ru) Кунжут индийский		894

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sesame		517
2	German (de) Sesam		153
3	French (fr) Sésame		126
4	Japanese (ja) ゴマ		118
5	Hebrew (he) שומשום		107
6	Italian (it) Sesamum indicum		95
7	Spanish (es) Sesamum indicum		74
8	Russian (ru) Кунжут индийский		67
9	Persian (fa) کنجد		64
10	Dutch (nl) Sesam		61

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	Hebrew (he) שומשום		3
2	Dutch (nl) Sesam		2
3	Czech (cs) Sezam indický		1
4	German (de) Sesam		1
5	French (fr) Sésame		1
6	Italian (it) Sesamum indicum		1
7	Tamil (ta) எள்		1
8	Chinese (zh) 芝麻		1
9	Arabic (ar) سمسم		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Hind küncütü		0

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

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