French language

Quality:

French - Romance language. Article "French language" in English Wikipedia has 89.5 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 143 references and 35 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 2147^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 418^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 913^th most popular in all topics.

The 242^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4400^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1997^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1795^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "French language" was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 55 authors in all languages (1795^th place).

Since the creation of article "French language", its content was written by 2389 registered users of English Wikipedia (418^th place) and edited by 9690 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (242^nd place).

The article is cited 59002 times in English Wikipedia (179^th place) and cited 884673 times in all languages (94^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #139 in March 2004
• Global: #30 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #518 in August 2010
• Global: #550 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 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	Croatian (hr) Francuski jezik		100
2	Esperanto (eo) Franca lingvo		97.3333
3	Persian (fa) زبان فرانسوی		94.6464
4	English (en) French language		89.5252
5	French (fr) Français		85.9071
6	Basque (eu) Frantses		85.7258
7	Norwegian (no) Fransk		82.0702
8	Russian (ru) Французский язык		81.9962
9	Catalan (ca) Francès		79.4323
10	Hungarian (hu) Francia nyelv		76.8432

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) French language		29 488 270
2	French (fr) Français		12 828 641
3	Spanish (es) Idioma francés		7 558 887
4	Russian (ru) Французский язык		6 097 364
5	German (de) Französische Sprache		5 307 833
6	Japanese (ja) フランス語		4 114 126
7	Arabic (ar) اللغة الفرنسية		2 696 347
8	Portuguese (pt) Língua francesa		2 613 937
9	Italian (it) Lingua francese		2 536 918
10	Polish (pl) Język francuski		2 076 813

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) French language		123 267
2	Russian (ru) Французский язык		35 930
3	French (fr) Français		32 779
4	Japanese (ja) フランス語		19 389
5	Spanish (es) Idioma francés		18 114
6	German (de) Französische Sprache		16 564
7	Persian (fa) زبان فرانسوی		10 042
8	Arabic (ar) اللغة الفرنسية		9 973
9	Chinese (zh) 法语		8 812
10	Italian (it) Lingua francese		8 291

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) French language		2 389
2	French (fr) Français		1 097
3	German (de) Französische Sprache		679
4	Spanish (es) Idioma francés		430
5	Italian (it) Lingua francese		380
6	Dutch (nl) Frans		331
7	Russian (ru) Французский язык		280
8	Chinese (zh) 法语		244
9	Japanese (ja) フランス語		233
10	Polish (pl) Język francuski		176

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	French (fr) Français		10
2	English (en) French language		9
3	Spanish (es) Idioma francés		4
4	Hebrew (he) צרפתית		3
5	German (de) Französische Sprache		2
6	Finnish (fi) Ranskan kieli		2
7	Croatian (hr) Francuski jezik		2
8	Hungarian (hu) Francia nyelv		2
9	Russian (ru) Французский язык		2
10	Turkish (tr) Fransızca		2

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

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