History of salt

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History of salt

Quality:

History of salt - history of the production and uses of the condiment salt. Article “History of salt” in English Wikipedia has 71.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 45 references and 16 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “History of salt”, its content was written by 310 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 562 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 169 times in English Wikipedia and cited 407 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #10106 in November 2022
  • Global: #23486 in May 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #51320 in November 2022
  • Global: #76135 in November 2022

There are 9 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Catalan (ca)
Història de la sal
83.6579
2French (fr)
Histoire du sel
79.0792
3Portuguese (pt)
História do sal
74.0047
4English (en)
History of salt
71.8774
5Spanish (es)
Historia de la sal
71.8172
6Malay (ms)
Sejarah garam
70.0569
7Galician (gl)
Historia do sal
67.4352
8Chinese (zh)
盐的历史
53.4887
9Arabic (ar)
تاريخ الملح
51.8896
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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 of salt" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
History of salt
1 596 609
2Spanish (es)
Historia de la sal
768 123
3Portuguese (pt)
História do sal
185 359
4Arabic (ar)
تاريخ الملح
153 417
5French (fr)
Histoire du sel
130 930
6Chinese (zh)
盐的历史
100 209
7Catalan (ca)
Història de la sal
22 536
8Malay (ms)
Sejarah garam
8 281
9Galician (gl)
Historia do sal
3 803
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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 June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "History of salt" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
History of salt
7 486
2Spanish (es)
Historia de la sal
1 032
3French (fr)
Histoire du sel
991
4Chinese (zh)
盐的历史
630
5Portuguese (pt)
História do sal
557
6Arabic (ar)
تاريخ الملح
251
7Malay (ms)
Sejarah garam
46
8Catalan (ca)
Història de la sal
17
9Galician (gl)
Historia do sal
17
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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 of salt" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
History of salt
310
2Spanish (es)
Historia de la sal
87
3French (fr)
Histoire du sel
50
4Arabic (ar)
تاريخ الملح
36
5Catalan (ca)
Història de la sal
30
6Galician (gl)
Historia do sal
18
7Portuguese (pt)
História do sal
16
8Chinese (zh)
盐的历史
14
9Malay (ms)
Sejarah garam
1
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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 June 2025

Language versions of the article "History of salt" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
تاريخ الملح
1
2Catalan (ca)
Història de la sal
1
3French (fr)
Histoire du sel
1
4English (en)
History of salt
0
5Spanish (es)
Historia de la sal
0
6Galician (gl)
Historia do sal
0
7Malay (ms)
Sejarah garam
0
8Portuguese (pt)
História do sal
0
9Chinese (zh)
盐的历史
0
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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 of salt" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
History of salt
169
2French (fr)
Histoire du sel
89
3Portuguese (pt)
História do sal
74
4Spanish (es)
Historia de la sal
32
5Chinese (zh)
盐的历史
13
6Arabic (ar)
تاريخ الملح
10
7Catalan (ca)
Història de la sal
10
8Malay (ms)
Sejarah garam
6
9Galician (gl)
Historia do sal
4
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تاريخ الملح
caCatalan
Història de la sal
enEnglish
History of salt
esSpanish
Historia de la sal
frFrench
Histoire du sel
glGalician
Historia do sal
msMalay
Sejarah garam
ptPortuguese
História do sal
zhChinese
盐的历史

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#51320
11.2022
Global:
#76135
11.2022

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#10106
11.2022
Global:
#23486
05.2017

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on History of salt from Wikipedia articles about Table salt, Sea salt, Wich town, Salt road and Morton Salt. Whereas reading the article about History of salt people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Solnitsata, Salt in Chinese history, Iodised salt, Salt road and Table salt.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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