Louis XVI

Quality:

Louis XVI of France - King of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791, then King of the French from 1791 to 1792 (1754-1793). This person is the 532^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Louis XVI” in English Wikipedia has 83.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 93 references and 23 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2747^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3001^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1545^th most popular in all topics.

The 1316^th most popular in AI.

The 532^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3563^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2043^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8810^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Louis XVI” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (8810^th place).

Since the creation of article “Louis XVI”, its content was written by 1384 registered users of English Wikipedia (3001^st place) and edited by 5873 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1316^th place).

Louis XVI of France is on the 532^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3331 times in English Wikipedia (9261^st place) and cited 27681 times in all languages (6111^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #237 in July 2002
• Global: #348 in October 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #473 in January 2023
• Global: #471 in January 2023

There are 54 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	Portuguese (pt) Luís XVI de França		98.5189
2	Korean (ko) 루이 16세		97.1232
3	Romanian (ro) Ludovic al XVI-lea al Franței		87.3221
4	Italian (it) Luigi XVI di Francia		83.7364
5	English (en) Louis XVI		83.6673
6	French (fr) Louis XVI		83.053
7	German (de) Ludwig XVI.		79.7738
8	Spanish (es) Luis XVI de Francia		76.2106
9	Thai (th) พระเจ้าหลุยส์ที่ 16 แห่งฝรั่งเศส		63.6824
10	Vietnamese (vi) Louis XVI của Pháp		63.2794

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Louis XVI		28 803 356
2	French (fr) Louis XVI		11 103 672
3	Spanish (es) Luis XVI de Francia		8 051 245
4	German (de) Ludwig XVI.		4 366 510
5	Russian (ru) Людовик XVI		3 815 007
6	Japanese (ja) ルイ16世 (フランス王)		3 604 145
7	Italian (it) Luigi XVI di Francia		3 129 736
8	Portuguese (pt) Luís XVI de França		2 274 796
9	Polish (pl) Ludwik XVI		1 786 257
10	Chinese (zh) 路易十六		1 593 685

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) Louis XVI		115 552
2	French (fr) Louis XVI		31 120
3	German (de) Ludwig XVI.		29 235
4	Spanish (es) Luis XVI de Francia		15 189
5	Japanese (ja) ルイ16世 (フランス王)		14 229
6	Russian (ru) Людовик XVI		13 283
7	Chinese (zh) 路易十六		8 984
8	Italian (it) Luigi XVI di Francia		8 516
9	Polish (pl) Ludwik XVI		5 617
10	Portuguese (pt) Luís XVI de França		4 880

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Louis XVI		1 384
2	French (fr) Louis XVI		813
3	German (de) Ludwig XVI.		500
4	Italian (it) Luigi XVI di Francia		296
5	Spanish (es) Luis XVI de Francia		278
6	Russian (ru) Людовик XVI		217
7	Dutch (nl) Lodewijk XVI van Frankrijk		202
8	Japanese (ja) ルイ16世 (フランス王)		148
9	Hebrew (he) לואי השישה עשר, מלך צרפת		128
10	Portuguese (pt) Luís XVI de França		127

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	French (fr) Louis XVI		10
2	Azerbaijani (az) XVI Lüdovik		2
3	German (de) Ludwig XVI.		2
4	English (en) Louis XVI		2
5	Japanese (ja) ルイ16世 (フランス王)		2
6	Italian (it) Luigi XVI di Francia		1
7	Dutch (nl) Lodewijk XVI van Frankrijk		1
8	Simple English (simple) Louis XVI		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Louis XVI của Pháp		1
10	Arabic (ar) لويس السادس عشر		0

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

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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