History

Quality:

History - past events and their tracks or records. Article "History" in English Wikipedia has 90.9 points for quality (as of June 1, 2023). The article contains 116 references and 34 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
English Wikipedia:
The 5397th most popular in English Wikipedia.
The 1650th most editable in English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 723rd most popular in all topics.
The 431st most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
English Wikipedia:
The 5956th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 1974th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 1555th most popular in AI in the last month.

In May 2023 the article "History" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 62 authors in all languages (1555th place).

Since the creation of article "History", its content was written by 1568 registered users of English Wikipedia (1650th place) and edited by 8008 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (431st place).

The article is cited 10895 times in English Wikipedia (1563rd place) and cited 150647 times in all languages (717th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #8 in January 2001
  • Global: #8 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #1239 in June 2011
  • Global: #98 in September 2014

There are 55 language versions for this article in WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipedia dumps from June 1, 2023 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Volapük (vo)
Jenav
99.7584
2Esperanto (eo)
Historio
98.2511
3English (en)
History
90.9489
4Chinese (zh)
历史
83.0309
5Turkish (tr)
Tarih
77.1175
6Catalan (ca)
Història
72.9498
7Spanish (es)
Historia
71.5739
8Indonesian (id)
Sejarah
64.3729
9Norwegian (no)
Historie
62.42
10Galician (gl)
Historia
61.756
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "History" in all the time
#LanguagePop. awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
Historia
33 985 641
2English (en)
History
17 366 320
3Portuguese (pt)
História
6 266 168
4Russian (ru)
История
4 623 580
5French (fr)
Histoire
4 207 769
6Indonesian (id)
Sejarah
4 057 173
7Thai (th)
ประวัติศาสตร์
2 717 213
8German (de)
Geschichte
2 312 838
9Italian (it)
Storia
2 162 670
10Polish (pl)
Historia
1 933 365
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in May 2023

The most popular language versions of the article "History" in May 2023
#LanguagePop. awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
History
109 434
2Spanish (es)
Historia
61 907
3Thai (th)
ประวัติศาสตร์
37 046
4Russian (ru)
История
25 905
5Hindi (hi)
इतिहास
21 470
6Portuguese (pt)
História
14 286
7French (fr)
Histoire
11 012
8Arabic (ar)
تاريخ
10 313
9Turkish (tr)
Tarih
9 167
10Indonesian (id)
Sejarah
7 395
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "History" with the highest AI. Only registreted Wikipedia users were counted.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
History
1 568
2French (fr)
Histoire
536
3Spanish (es)
Historia
530
4German (de)
Geschichte
364
5Italian (it)
Storia
349
6Dutch (nl)
Geschiedenis
340
7Russian (ru)
История
286
8Portuguese (pt)
História
281
9Hebrew (he)
היסטוריה
245
10Turkish (tr)
Tarih
210
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in May 2023

Language versions of the article "History" with the highest AI in May 2023
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Spanish (es)
Historia
18
2French (fr)
Histoire
9
3Turkish (tr)
Tarih
5
4Czech (cs)
Dějiny
4
5Dutch (nl)
Geschiedenis
3
6Azerbaijani (az)
Tarix
2
7German (de)
Geschichte
2
8English (en)
History
2
9Croatian (hr)
Povijest
2
10Italian (it)
Storia
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "History" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Russian (ru)
История
13 438
2French (fr)
Histoire
11 367
3English (en)
History
10 895
4Italian (it)
Storia
10 177
5Portuguese (pt)
História
6 336
6German (de)
Geschichte
6 216
7Japanese (ja)
歴史
5 914
8Spanish (es)
Historia
5 554
9Arabic (ar)
تاريخ
5 244
10Ukrainian (uk)
Історія
5 092
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwiki

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تاريخ
azAzerbaijani
Tarix
beBelarusian
Гісторыя
bgBulgarian
История
caCatalan
Història
csCzech
Dějiny
daDanish
Historie
deGerman
Geschichte
elGreek
Ιστορία
enEnglish
History
eoEsperanto
Historio
esSpanish
Historia
etEstonian
Ajalugu
euBasque
Historia
faPersian
تاریخ
fiFinnish
Historia
frFrench
Histoire
glGalician
Historia
heHebrew
היסטוריה
hiHindi
इतिहास
hrCroatian
Povijest
huHungarian
Történelem
hyArmenian
Պատմություն
idIndonesian
Sejarah
itItalian
Storia
jaJapanese
歴史
kaGeorgian
ისტორია
kkKazakh
Тарих
koKorean
역사
laLatin
Historia
ltLithuanian
Istorija
msMalay
Sejarah
nlDutch
Geschiedenis
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Historie
noNorwegian
Historie
plPolish
Historia
ptPortuguese
História
roRomanian
Istorie
ruRussian
История
shSerbo-Croatian
Historija
simpleSimple English
History
skSlovak
Dejiny
slSlovenian
Zgodovina
srSerbian
Историја
svSwedish
Historia
taTamil
வரலாறு
thThai
ประวัติศาสตร์
trTurkish
Tarih
ukUkrainian
Історія
urUrdu
تاریخ
uzUzbek
Tarix
viVietnamese
Lịch sử
voVolapük
Jenav
zhChinese
历史
zhminnanMin Nan
Le̍k-sú

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1239
06.2011
Global:
#98
09.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#8
01.2001
Global:
#8
01.2001

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparsion

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on History from Wikipedia articles about Social science, Classical antiquity, Historiography, Ancient history and Periodization. Whereas reading the article about History people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Human history, Historiography, Prehistory, Herodotus and Historian.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

it: Storia
tr: Tarih
ja: 歴史
zh: 历史
simple: History
ko: 역사
az: Tarix
uz: Tarix
sk: Dejiny
vo: Jenav
zhminnan: Le̍k-sú

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