Flax

Quality:

Linum usitatissimum - species of plant. This taxon is the 216^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 140^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Flax” in English Wikipedia has 72 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 92 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 18 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9017^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

The 140^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9314^th most popular in all topics.

The 9736^th most popular in AI.

The 216^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Flax” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Flax”, its content was written by 699 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2559 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9736^th place).

Linum usitatissimum is on the 140^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 216^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1668 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10402 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1594 in August 2003
• Global: #1106 in March 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3310 in January 2012
• Global: #5874 in January 2012

There are 50 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	German (de) Gemeiner Lein		75.7676
2	French (fr) Lin cultivé		74.8102
3	English (en) Flax		71.9975
4	Estonian (et) Harilik lina		60.4274
5	Italian (it) Linum usitatissimum		58.652
6	Polish (pl) Len zwyczajny		54.6158
7	Chinese (zh) 亚麻		44.5521
8	Hebrew (he) פשתן		44.1804
9	Russian (ru) Лён обыкновенный		42.1978
10	Japanese (ja) アマ (植物)		40.3694

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Flax		14 641 379
2	French (fr) Lin cultivé		1 670 456
3	Japanese (ja) アマ (植物)		1 589 314
4	Spanish (es) Linum usitatissimum		1 344 757
5	German (de) Gemeiner Lein		1 249 788
6	Arabic (ar) كتان		805 686
7	Russian (ru) Лён обыкновенный		788 769
8	Portuguese (pt) Linho		663 011
9	Dutch (nl) Vlas (gewas)		500 684
10	Polish (pl) Len zwyczajny		414 050

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) Flax		35 416
2	German (de) Gemeiner Lein		7 656
3	French (fr) Lin cultivé		5 165
4	Russian (ru) Лён обыкновенный		4 168
5	Japanese (ja) アマ (植物)		4 048
6	Dutch (nl) Vlas (gewas)		3 124
7	Spanish (es) Linum usitatissimum		2 372
8	Swedish (sv) Lin (växt)		1 617
9	Chinese (zh) 亚麻		1 560
10	Italian (it) Linum usitatissimum		1 445

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Flax		699
2	French (fr) Lin cultivé		208
3	German (de) Gemeiner Lein		144
4	Dutch (nl) Vlas (gewas)		116
5	Spanish (es) Linum usitatissimum		94
6	Italian (it) Linum usitatissimum		89
7	Hebrew (he) פשתן		71
8	Arabic (ar) كتان		64
9	Japanese (ja) アマ (植物)		64
10	Finnish (fi) Pellava		58

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) Flax		3
2	German (de) Gemeiner Lein		2
3	Japanese (ja) アマ (植物)		2
4	Swedish (sv) Lin (växt)		2
5	Danish (da) Almindelig hør		1
6	Spanish (es) Linum usitatissimum		1
7	Basque (eu) Liho		1
8	Hebrew (he) פשתן		1
9	Dutch (nl) Vlas (gewas)		1
10	Arabic (ar) كتان		0

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

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