California

Quality:

California - state of the United States of America. Article “California” in English Wikipedia has 88.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 461 references and 46 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.67 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 244^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 152^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 281^st most popular in all topics.

The 282^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1234^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 5995^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1029^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2211^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “California” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (5995^th place) and written by 43 authors in all languages (2211^th place).

Since the creation of article “California”, its content was written by 3135 registered users of English Wikipedia (152^nd place) and edited by 9624 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (282^nd place).

The article is cited 89391 times in English Wikipedia (105^th place) and cited 645952 times in all languages (148^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #96 in July 2002
• Global: #87 in July 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #145 in August 2010
• Global: #191 in March 2023

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, 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	Spanish (es) California		92.9964
2	German (de) Kalifornien		90.0668
3	English (en) California		88.72
4	Indonesian (id) California		87.164
5	French (fr) Californie		87.1162
6	Hebrew (he) קליפורניה		81.6097
7	Slovak (sk) Kalifornia		81.4433
8	Italian (it) California		80.8633
9	Catalan (ca) Califòrnia		80.5995
10	Norwegian (no) California		78.5218

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) California		79 494 020
2	Spanish (es) California		11 702 595
3	German (de) Kalifornien		11 246 180
4	Russian (ru) Калифорния		8 487 590
5	French (fr) Californie		7 162 833
6	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア州		6 222 473
7	Portuguese (pt) Califórnia		4 881 387
8	Italian (it) California		4 632 098
9	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亚州		4 219 348
10	Polish (pl) Kalifornia		3 143 778

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) California		216 788
2	Spanish (es) California		23 597
3	German (de) Kalifornien		22 637
4	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア州		22 322
5	Russian (ru) Калифорния		20 909
6	French (fr) Californie		14 002
7	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亚州		11 910
8	Italian (it) California		9 298
9	Persian (fa) کالیفرنیا		8 101
10	Polish (pl) Kalifornia		7 996

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) California		3 135
2	German (de) Kalifornien		652
3	French (fr) Californie		534
4	Spanish (es) California		431
5	Italian (it) California		382
6	Russian (ru) Калифорния		310
7	Dutch (nl) Californië		297
8	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亚州		252
9	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア州		244
10	Hebrew (he) קליפורניה		224

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) California		10
2	Spanish (es) California		9
3	Ukrainian (uk) Каліфорнія		4
4	Italian (it) California		3
5	Russian (ru) Калифорния		3
6	Azerbaijani (az) Kaliforniya		2
7	Hebrew (he) קליפורניה		2
8	Arabic (ar) كاليفورنيا		1
9	German (de) Kalifornien		1
10	Estonian (et) California		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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