Candide

Quality:

Candide - 1759 book by Voltaire. This book is the 152^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 264^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article "Candide" in English Wikipedia has 94.8 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 165 references and 29 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 264^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 152^nd most popular in books.

In July 2024 the article "Candide" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Candide", its content was written by 544 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2017 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Candide is on the 264^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 152^nd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 442 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2004 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1294 in September 2001
• Global: #1616 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8272 in August 2009
• Global: #5526 in October 2009

There are 37 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Candide		94.8274
2	Serbian (sr) Кандид		81.3888
3	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		69.7929
4	Bulgarian (bg) Кандид или оптимизмът		68.6753
5	French (fr) Candide		62.1919
6	Hungarian (hu) Candide		60.1744
7	Italian (it) Candido		56.3827
8	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		50.1505
9	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		36.5744
10	Catalan (ca) Càndid o l'optimisme		33.4585

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Candide		7 257 372
2	French (fr) Candide		7 126 746
3	Italian (it) Candido		1 253 314
4	Spanish (es) Cándido		851 607
5	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		775 200
6	Russian (ru) Кандид, или Оптимизм		525 028
7	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		470 765
8	Swedish (sv) Candide		456 011
9	Portuguese (pt) Cândido, ou O Otimismo		447 276
10	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		343 118

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) Candide		21 226
2	French (fr) Candide		7 944
3	Italian (it) Candido		2 805
4	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		2 655
5	Spanish (es) Cándido		2 586
6	Russian (ru) Кандид, или Оптимизм		1 869
7	Portuguese (pt) Cândido, ou O Otimismo		1 219
8	Japanese (ja) カンディード		1 122
9	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		646
10	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		601

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Candide		544
2	French (fr) Candide		435
3	Italian (it) Candido		136
4	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		106
5	Dutch (nl) Candide		71
6	Spanish (es) Cándido		67
7	Swedish (sv) Candide		57
8	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		54
9	Hebrew (he) קנדיד		52
10	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		47

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) Candide		2
2	Spanish (es) Cándido		1
3	Urdu (ur) کاندید		1
4	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Кандид или оптимизмът		0
6	Catalan (ca) Càndid o l'optimisme		0
7	Czech (cs) Candide		0
8	Danish (da) Candide		0
9	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		0
10	Greek (el) Αγαθούλης		0

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

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