Japanese Wikipedia

Quality:

Japanese Wikipedia - Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia. This website is the 93^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites. Article “Japanese Wikipedia” in English Wikipedia has 45.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 51 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 19.68 points.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 93^rd most popular in websites.

In June 2026 the article “Japanese Wikipedia” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Japanese Wikipedia”, its content was written by 361 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1880 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Japanese Wikipedia is on the 93^rd place in global ranking of websites on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 204 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7803 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3536 in February 2003
• Global: #1757 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #34921 in September 2008
• Global: #2971 in February 2013

There are 50 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	Japanese (ja) ウィキペディア日本語版		71.576
2	Chinese (zh) 日語維基百科		55.4285
3	English (en) Japanese Wikipedia		45.9221
4	German (de) Japanischsprachige Wikipedia		38.796
5	Urdu (ur) جاپانی ویکیپیڈیا		35.0292
6	Lithuanian (lt) Japoniškoji Vikipedija		29.2687
7	Tamil (ta) சப்பானிய விக்கிப்பீடியா		29.2329
8	Ukrainian (uk) Японська Вікіпедія		28.1236
9	Arabic (ar) ويكيبيديا اليابانية		28.0664
10	Croatian (hr) Wikipedija na japanskom jeziku		27.9898

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) ウィキペディア日本語版		17 921 958
2	English (en) Japanese Wikipedia		708 778
3	Chinese (zh) 日語維基百科		170 897
4	Korean (ko) 일본어 위키백과		126 895
5	Russian (ru) Японская Википедия		100 054
6	Spanish (es) Wikipedia en japonés		79 937
7	Polish (pl) Wikipedia w języku japońskim		47 211
8	Indonesian (id) Wikipedia bahasa Jepang		41 191
9	Dutch (nl) Japanstalige Wikipedia		41 060
10	French (fr) Wikipédia en japonais		37 713

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) ウィキペディア日本語版		49 603
2	English (en) Japanese Wikipedia		3 560
3	Korean (ko) 일본어 위키백과		1 022
4	Chinese (zh) 日語維基百科		403
5	Russian (ru) Японская Википедия		148
6	Simple English (simple) Japanese Wikipedia		142
7	Spanish (es) Wikipedia en japonés		130
8	Indonesian (id) Wikipedia bahasa Jepang		92
9	Persian (fa) ویکی‌پدیای ژاپنی		87
10	French (fr) Wikipédia en japonais		85

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) ウィキペディア日本語版		381
2	English (en) Japanese Wikipedia		361
3	Russian (ru) Японская Википедия		115
4	Chinese (zh) 日語維基百科		92
5	Korean (ko) 일본어 위키백과		79
6	French (fr) Wikipédia en japonais		69
7	Italian (it) Wikipedia in giapponese		60
8	Spanish (es) Wikipedia en japonés		54
9	Dutch (nl) Japanstalige Wikipedia		51
10	German (de) Japanischsprachige Wikipedia		47

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	Japanese (ja) ウィキペディア日本語版		4
2	English (en) Japanese Wikipedia		2
3	Arabic (ar) ويكيبيديا اليابانية		1
4	Tamil (ta) சப்பானிய விக்கிப்பீடியா		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Yaponca Vikipediya		0
6	Belarusian (be) Японская Вікіпедыя		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Уикипедия на японски език		0
8	Catalan (ca) Viquipèdia en japonès		0
9	Czech (cs) Japonská Wikipedie		0
10	Danish (da) Japansk Wikipedia		0

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