British Museum

Quality:

British Museum - national museum in London, United Kingdom. This building is the 72^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 97^th most popular building in English Wikipedia. Article “British Museum” in English Wikipedia has 82.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 200 references and 47 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.35 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7382^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 97^th most popular in buildings in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4863^rd most popular in AI.

The 72^nd most popular in buildings.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8054^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “British Museum” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 23 authors in all languages (8054^th place).

Since the creation of article “British Museum”, its content was written by 972 registered users of English Wikipedia (7382^nd place) and edited by 3643 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4863^rd place).

British Museum is on the 97^th place in local ranking of buildings in English Wikipedia and on the 72^nd place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 12236 times in English Wikipedia (1582^nd place) and cited 57196 times in all languages (2924^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #136 in November 2001
• Global: #167 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5681 in January 2014
• Global: #6461 in January 2014

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 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	Malay (ms) Muzium British		98.4974
2	Polish (pl) Muzeum Brytyjskie		92.2628
3	Hungarian (hu) British Museum		85.7512
4	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆		85.4312
5	Slovenian (sl) Britanski muzej		83.7608
6	English (en) British Museum		82.7335
7	Simple English (simple) British Museum		76.1096
8	Indonesian (id) British Museum		74.782
9	Catalan (ca) Museu Britànic		72.5258
10	Latin (la) Museum Britannicum		70.096

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) British Museum		9 614 323
2	Spanish (es) Museo Británico		1 718 043
3	Italian (it) British Museum		1 420 175
4	French (fr) British Museum		1 295 374
5	Japanese (ja) 大英博物館		1 244 515
6	Russian (ru) Британский музей		1 171 330
7	German (de) British Museum		1 154 036
8	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆		1 008 531
9	Polish (pl) Muzeum Brytyjskie		613 948
10	Portuguese (pt) Museu Britânico		475 858

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) British Museum		38 179
2	French (fr) British Museum		6 826
3	Japanese (ja) 大英博物館		2 747
4	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆		2 548
5	German (de) British Museum		2 334
6	Spanish (es) Museo Británico		2 192
7	Italian (it) British Museum		1 644
8	Russian (ru) Британский музей		1 581
9	Polish (pl) Muzeum Brytyjskie		879
10	Persian (fa) موزه بریتانیا		647

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) British Museum		972
2	German (de) British Museum		282
3	French (fr) British Museum		256
4	Italian (it) British Museum		212
5	Spanish (es) Museo Británico		142
6	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆		119
7	Russian (ru) Британский музей		118
8	Japanese (ja) 大英博物館		107
9	Dutch (nl) British Museum		105
10	Hebrew (he) המוזיאון הבריטי		91

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) British Museum		6
2	French (fr) British Museum		4
3	Azerbaijani (az) Britaniya Muzeyi		2
4	German (de) British Museum		2
5	Persian (fa) موزه بریتانیا		2
6	Serbian (sr) Британски музеј		2
7	Catalan (ca) Museu Britànic		1
8	Basque (eu) British Museum		1
9	Italian (it) British Museum		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Британський музей		1

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information