Flax

Quality:

Linum usitatissimum - species of plant. This taxon is the 224^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 145^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Flax” in English Wikipedia has 72.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 97 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 18.11 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9446^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

The 145^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9554^th most popular in all topics.

The 9883^rd most popular in AI.

The 224^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2026 the article “Flax” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Flax”, its content was written by 719 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2583 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9883^rd place).

Linum usitatissimum is on the 145^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 224^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1708 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10783 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1590 in August 2003
• Global: #1103 in March 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3334 in January 2012
• Global: #5977 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, 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	French (fr) Lin cultivé		74.5792
2	German (de) Gemeiner Lein		74.1951
3	English (en) Flax		72.4241
4	Estonian (et) Harilik lina		59.8925
5	Italian (it) Linum usitatissimum		58.3397
6	Polish (pl) Len zwyczajny		53.3501
7	Russian (ru) Лён обыкновенный		46.819
8	Hebrew (he) פשתן		43.7821
9	Japanese (ja) アマ (植物)		39.9605
10	Swedish (sv) Lin (växt)		39.1021

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Flax		15 014 616
2	French (fr) Lin cultivé		1 722 785
3	Japanese (ja) アマ (植物)		1 628 739
4	Spanish (es) Linum usitatissimum		1 368 865
5	German (de) Gemeiner Lein		1 321 617
6	Russian (ru) Лён обыкновенный		864 928
7	Arabic (ar) كتان		821 410
8	Portuguese (pt) Linho		679 426
9	Dutch (nl) Vlas (gewas)		526 234
10	Italian (it) Linum usitatissimum		424 555

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		29 117
2	German (de) Gemeiner Lein		7 953
3	French (fr) Lin cultivé		4 746
4	Japanese (ja) アマ (植物)		3 942
5	Dutch (nl) Vlas (gewas)		2 999
6	Russian (ru) Лён обыкновенный		2 838
7	Spanish (es) Linum usitatissimum		1 579
8	Swedish (sv) Lin (växt)		1 419
9	Chinese (zh) 亚麻		1 205
10	Italian (it) Linum usitatissimum		1 195

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Flax		719
2	French (fr) Lin cultivé		214
3	German (de) Gemeiner Lein		145
4	Dutch (nl) Vlas (gewas)		117
5	Spanish (es) Linum usitatissimum		95
6	Italian (it) Linum usitatissimum		92
7	Hebrew (he) פשתן		73
8	Japanese (ja) アマ (植物)		66
9	Arabic (ar) كتان		64
10	Finnish (fi) Pellava		59

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	Azerbaijani (az) Adi zəyrək		3
2	English (en) Flax		3
3	French (fr) Lin cultivé		2
4	Arabic (ar) كتان		1
5	Catalan (ca) Lli		1
6	Czech (cs) Len setý		1
7	German (de) Gemeiner Lein		1
8	Greek (el) Λινάρι		1
9	Dutch (nl) Vlas (gewas)		1
10	Norwegian (no) Lin		1

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

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