January

Quality:

January - first month in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Article “January” in English Wikipedia has 54.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 20 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9979^th most popular in all topics.

The 4918^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “January” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “January”, its content was written by 596 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3622 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4918^th place).

The article is cited 595 times in English Wikipedia and cited 95773 times in all languages (1510^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #85 in April 2001
• Global: #91 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3562 in January 2011
• Global: #1290 in January 2024

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	Catalan (ca) Gener		61.5732
2	English (en) January		54.8298
3	Ukrainian (uk) Січень		51.9276
4	Simple English (simple) January		43.6108
5	Basque (eu) Urtarril		41.5397
6	Spanish (es) Enero		38.8355
7	German (de) Januar		38.0944
8	Serbian (sr) Јануар		34.9378
9	Hungarian (hu) Január		33.8515
10	Indonesian (id) Januari		33.4546

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) January		6 872 225
2	Japanese (ja) 1月		2 615 908
3	Arabic (ar) يناير		2 544 107
4	Spanish (es) Enero		2 342 851
5	Russian (ru) Январь		1 507 328
6	German (de) Januar		1 316 422
7	French (fr) Janvier		1 061 032
8	Portuguese (pt) Janeiro		941 023
9	Polish (pl) Styczeń		913 616
10	Italian (it) Gennaio		556 141

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) January		10 567
2	Russian (ru) Январь		3 020
3	Japanese (ja) 1月		2 571
4	Spanish (es) Enero		1 682
5	Persian (fa) ژانویه		1 617
6	Portuguese (pt) Janeiro		1 559
7	German (de) Januar		1 269
8	French (fr) Janvier		938
9	Polish (pl) Styczeń		635
10	Ukrainian (uk) Січень		591

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) January		596
2	German (de) Januar		315
3	Spanish (es) Enero		173
4	French (fr) Janvier		168
5	Dutch (nl) Januari		143
6	Russian (ru) Январь		140
7	Portuguese (pt) Janeiro		124
8	Italian (it) Gennaio		109
9	Hungarian (hu) Január		99
10	Japanese (ja) 1月		98

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	Czech (cs) Leden		2
2	Bulgarian (bg) Януари		1
3	Catalan (ca) Gener		1
4	Greek (el) Ιανουάριος		1
5	English (en) January		1
6	Basque (eu) Urtarril		1
7	Persian (fa) ژانویه		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tháng Một		1
9	Volapük (vo) Yanul		1
10	Chinese (zh) 1月		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