English language

Quality:

English - West Germanic language. Article “English language” in English Wikipedia has 93.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 380 references and 37 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 168^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 190^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 74^th most popular in all topics.

The 72^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 604^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 4118^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 249^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 663^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “English language” was edited by 14 authors in English Wikipedia (4118^th place) and written by 75 authors in all languages (663^rd place).

Since the creation of article “English language”, its content was written by 2935 registered users of English Wikipedia (190^th place) and edited by 12909 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (72^nd place).

The article is cited 113492 times in English Wikipedia (80^th place) and cited 3591789 times in all languages (16^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #36 in February 2003
• Global: #18 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #36 in April 2010
• Global: #54 in April 2010

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, 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	Turkish (tr) İngilizce		94.2857
2	English (en) English language		93.9329
3	Persian (fa) زبان انگلیسی		90.8342
4	Finnish (fi) Englannin kieli		88
5	Croatian (hr) Engleski jezik		83.7647
6	Galician (gl) Lingua inglesa		83.5953
7	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Inggris		83.3221
8	Malay (ms) Bahasa Inggeris		81.0885
9	Hindi (hi) अंग्रेज़ी भाषा		80.7267
10	Norwegian (no) Engelsk		76.0272

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) English language		85 608 960
2	Russian (ru) Английский язык		23 735 589
3	Spanish (es) Idioma inglés		17 433 678
4	Arabic (ar) اللغة الإنجليزية		11 860 041
5	Japanese (ja) 英語		9 853 465
6	Portuguese (pt) Língua inglesa		8 432 797
7	German (de) Englische Sprache		8 337 318
8	Persian (fa) زبان انگلیسی		6 567 383
9	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Inggris		6 418 139
10	Thai (th) ภาษาอังกฤษ		6 049 218

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) English language		333 760
2	Russian (ru) Английский язык		190 630
3	Japanese (ja) 英語		39 127
4	Arabic (ar) اللغة الإنجليزية		38 351
5	Spanish (es) Idioma inglés		31 398
6	Persian (fa) زبان انگلیسی		28 171
7	German (de) Englische Sprache		24 514
8	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Inggris		17 715
9	Thai (th) ภาษาอังกฤษ		16 190
10	French (fr) Anglais		15 456

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) English language		2 935
2	Spanish (es) Idioma inglés		700
3	French (fr) Anglais		671
4	German (de) Englische Sprache		638
5	Russian (ru) Английский язык		533
6	Italian (it) Lingua inglese		474
7	Japanese (ja) 英語		442
8	Chinese (zh) 英语		401
9	Dutch (nl) Engels		347
10	Hebrew (he) אנגלית		320

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) English language		14
2	Czech (cs) Angličtina		7
3	Korean (ko) 영어		7
4	Russian (ru) Английский язык		6
5	Arabic (ar) اللغة الإنجليزية		5
6	Persian (fa) زبان انگلیسی		5
7	Romanian (ro) Limba engleză		4
8	German (de) Englische Sprache		3
9	French (fr) Anglais		3
10	Japanese (ja) 英語		3

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information