British Museum

Quality:

British Museum - national museum in London, United Kingdom. This building is the 73^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of buildings and the 95^th most popular building in English Wikipedia. Article “British Museum” in English Wikipedia has 82.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 197 references and 46 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 7555^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 95^th most popular in buildings in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4857^th most popular in AI.

The 73^rd most popular in buildings.

In June 2025 the article “British Museum” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “British Museum”, its content was written by 936 registered users of English Wikipedia (7555^th place) and edited by 3590 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4857^th place).

British Museum is on the 95^th place in local ranking of buildings in English Wikipedia and on the 73^rd place in global ranking of buildings in all the time.

The article is cited 11687 times in English Wikipedia (1608^th place) and cited 53339 times in all languages (2993^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #136 in November 2001
• Global: #168 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5650 in January 2014
• Global: #6403 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, 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	Malay (ms) Muzium British		97.7874
2	Polish (pl) Muzeum Brytyjskie		91.2278
3	Hungarian (hu) British Museum		85.9258
4	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆		85.4428
5	English (en) British Museum		82.6501
6	Slovenian (sl) Britanski muzej		81.9145
7	Simple English (simple) British Museum		78.7031
8	Indonesian (id) British Museum		75.2325
9	Catalan (ca) Museu Britànic		72.423
10	Swedish (sv) British Museum		71.0355

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) British Museum		9 211 187
2	Spanish (es) Museo Británico		1 677 787
3	Italian (it) British Museum		1 384 765
4	French (fr) British Museum		1 254 063
5	Japanese (ja) 大英博物館		1 201 523
6	German (de) British Museum		1 114 755
7	Russian (ru) Британский музей		1 000 298
8	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆		970 415
9	Polish (pl) Muzeum Brytyjskie		599 816
10	Portuguese (pt) Museu Britânico		467 044

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		41 615
2	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆		4 619
3	Spanish (es) Museo Británico		3 919
4	Japanese (ja) 大英博物館		3 239
5	French (fr) British Museum		3 185
6	German (de) British Museum		2 920
7	Italian (it) British Museum		2 645
8	Russian (ru) Британский музей		2 136
9	Polish (pl) Muzeum Brytyjskie		1 149
10	Portuguese (pt) Museu Britânico		1 014

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		936
2	German (de) British Museum		273
3	French (fr) British Museum		246
4	Italian (it) British Museum		206
5	Spanish (es) Museo Británico		136
6	Chinese (zh) 大英博物馆		117
7	Russian (ru) Британский музей		115
8	Japanese (ja) 大英博物館		105
9	Dutch (nl) British Museum		103
10	Hebrew (he) המוזיאון הבריטי		87

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		8
2	Italian (it) British Museum		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) Britaniya Muzeyi		1
4	Persian (fa) موزه بریتانیا		1
5	Tamil (ta) பிரித்தானிய அருங்காட்சியகம்		1
6	Arabic (ar) المتحف البريطاني		0
7	Belarusian (be) Брытанскі музей		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Британски музей		0
9	Catalan (ca) Museu Britànic		0
10	Czech (cs) Britské muzeum		0

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

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