Candidate

Candidate - prospective recipient of a specific award or position. Article “Candidate” in English Wikipedia has 27.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.44 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Candidate”, its content was written by 151 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 400 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 734 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2554 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #25163 in August 2004
• Global: #7817 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #41094 in October 2008
• Global: #55313 in October 2008

There are 19 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) Candidate		27.3894
2	Spanish (es) Candidato		25.2348
3	Bulgarian (bg) Кандидат		25.1298
4	German (de) Kandidat		22.7071
5	Finnish (fi) Ehdokas (politiikka)		22.2096
6	Arabic (ar) مرشح (شخص)		19.5
7	French (fr) Candidat		17.408
8	Chinese (zh) 參選人		17.0767
9	Hungarian (hu) Jelölt		15.9284
10	Czech (cs) Kandidát		10.8446

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Candidate" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Candidate		1 539 160
2	German (de) Kandidat		435 020
3	Spanish (es) Candidato		200 497
4	French (fr) Candidat		67 011
5	Chinese (zh) 參選人		64 057
6	Japanese (ja) 立候補		55 296
7	Arabic (ar) مرشح (شخص)		51 277
8	Czech (cs) Kandidát		29 030
9	Korean (ko) 후보		19 396
10	Persian (fa) نامزد انتخاباتی		18 564

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Candidate" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Candidate		4 243
2	German (de) Kandidat		560
3	Spanish (es) Candidato		292
4	Japanese (ja) 立候補		289
5	French (fr) Candidat		248
6	Arabic (ar) مرشح (شخص)		191
7	Chinese (zh) 參選人		176
8	Simple English (simple) Candidate		138
9	Korean (ko) 후보		88
10	Czech (cs) Kandidát		38

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

Language versions of the article "Candidate" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Candidate		151
2	German (de) Kandidat		115
3	French (fr) Candidat		38
4	Czech (cs) Kandidát		17
5	Japanese (ja) 立候補		13
6	Arabic (ar) مرشح (شخص)		8
7	Persian (fa) نامزد انتخاباتی		8
8	Korean (ko) 후보		8
9	Spanish (es) Candidato		7
10	Danish (da) Kandidat (valg)		6

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

Language versions of the article "Candidate" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مرشح (شخص)		0
2	Bulgarian (bg) Кандидат		0
3	Czech (cs) Kandidát		0
4	Danish (da) Kandidat (valg)		0
5	German (de) Kandidat		0
6	English (en) Candidate		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Kandidato		0
8	Spanish (es) Candidato		0
9	Persian (fa) نامزد انتخاباتی		0
10	Finnish (fi) Ehdokas (politiikka)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Candidate" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Candidate		734
2	German (de) Kandidat		732
3	Chinese (zh) 參選人		208
4	Spanish (es) Candidato		126
5	Danish (da) Kandidat (valg)		118
6	French (fr) Candidat		115
7	Japanese (ja) 立候補		115
8	Simple English (simple) Candidate		100
9	Czech (cs) Kandidát		81
10	Arabic (ar) مرشح (شخص)		79

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مرشح (شخص)
bg	Bulgarian Кандидат
cs	Czech Kandidát
da	Danish Kandidat (valg)
de	German Kandidat
en	English Candidate
eo	Esperanto Kandidato
es	Spanish Candidato
fa	Persian نامزد انتخاباتی
fi	Finnish Ehdokas (politiikka)
fr	French Candidat
hu	Hungarian Jelölt
ja	Japanese 立候補
ko	Korean 후보
ro	Romanian Candidat
simple	Simple English Candidate
sk	Slovak Kandidát
zh	Chinese 參選人
zhminnan	Min Nan Hāu-soán-jîn

Best Rank

English: #41094 10.2008

Global: #55313 10.2008

Best Rank

English: #25163 08.2004

Global: #7817 10.2003

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