History

Quality:

History - past events and their tracks or records. Article “History” in English Wikipedia has 93.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 266 references and 23 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 5324^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1731^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 845^th most popular in all topics.

The 463^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7143^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4759^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “History” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 30 authors in all languages (4759^th place).

Since the creation of article “History”, its content was written by 1664 registered users of English Wikipedia (1731^st place) and edited by 8374 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (463^rd place).

The article is cited 11803 times in English Wikipedia (1651^st place) and cited 174032 times in all languages (676^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #49 in January 2001
• Global: #24 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1254 in June 2011
• Global: #91 in September 2014

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, 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	Hebrew (he) היסטוריה		100
2	Volapük (vo) Jenav		99.8152
3	Greek (el) Ιστορία		99.666
4	Korean (ko) 역사		95.3297
5	Esperanto (eo) Historio		94.9269
6	Indonesian (id) Sejarah		94.4367
7	Vietnamese (vi) Lịch sử		94.3114
8	Chinese (zh) 历史		94.252
9	English (en) History		93.5948
10	Portuguese (pt) História		86.7355

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Historia		31 661 404
2	English (en) History		20 677 777
3	Portuguese (pt) História		6 501 216
4	Russian (ru) История		5 733 570
5	French (fr) Histoire		4 515 888
6	Indonesian (id) Sejarah		4 436 838
7	Thai (th) ประวัติศาสตร์		3 006 509
8	German (de) Geschichte		2 463 484
9	Italian (it) Storia		2 384 804
10	Hindi (hi) इतिहास		2 121 970

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) History		56 807
2	Russian (ru) История		9 084
3	Spanish (es) Historia		8 950
4	French (fr) Histoire		5 706
5	Japanese (ja) 歴史		4 614
6	Portuguese (pt) História		4 579
7	Chinese (zh) 历史		3 215
8	German (de) Geschichte		2 776
9	Thai (th) ประวัติศาสตร์		2 730
10	Persian (fa) تاریخ		2 621

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History		1 664
2	French (fr) Histoire		571
3	Spanish (es) Historia		567
4	German (de) Geschichte		386
5	Italian (it) Storia		368
6	Dutch (nl) Geschiedenis		345
7	Russian (ru) История		300
8	Portuguese (pt) História		296
9	Hebrew (he) היסטוריה		272
10	Turkish (tr) Tarih		222

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) History		3
2	Serbian (sr) Историја		3
3	Vietnamese (vi) Lịch sử		3
4	Azerbaijani (az) Tarix		2
5	Catalan (ca) Història		2
6	German (de) Geschichte		2
7	French (fr) Histoire		2
8	Russian (ru) История		2
9	Basque (eu) Historia		1
10	Galician (gl) Historia		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information