Louis XVI

Quality:

Louis XVI of France - King of France and Navarre (1754-1793). This person is the 523^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Louis XVI” in English Wikipedia has 74.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 90 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.3 points.

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 2827^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2970^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1575^th most popular in all topics.

The 1305^th most popular in AI.

The 523^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2052^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1427^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4082^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Louis XVI” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 32 authors in all languages (4082^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Louis XVI”, its content was written by 1358 registered users of English Wikipedia (2970^th place) and edited by 5813 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1305^th place).

Louis XVI of France is on the 523^rd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3299 times in English Wikipedia (8454^th place) and cited 26955 times in all languages (6110^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #236 in July 2002
• Global: #348 in October 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #471 in January 2023
• Global: #468 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, 2025 (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		98.4846
2	Korean (ko) 루이 16세		97.0072
3	Romanian (ro) Ludovic al XVI-lea al Franței		87.4929
4	Italian (it) Luigi XVI di Francia		84.2238
5	French (fr) Louis XVI		82.8763
6	German (de) Ludwig XVI.		82.2737
7	Spanish (es) Luis XVI de Francia		76.9126
8	English (en) Louis XVI		74.7081
9	Thai (th) พระเจ้าหลุยส์ที่ 16 แห่งฝรั่งเศส		65.3566
10	Vietnamese (vi) Louis XVI của Pháp		61.2631

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Louis XVI		27 078 800
2	French (fr) Louis XVI		10 578 624
3	Spanish (es) Luis XVI de Francia		7 786 292
4	German (de) Ludwig XVI.		4 098 146
5	Russian (ru) Людовик XVI		3 460 557
6	Japanese (ja) ルイ16世 (フランス王)		3 439 436
7	Italian (it) Luigi XVI di Francia		2 936 380
8	Portuguese (pt) Luís XVI de França		2 202 983
9	Polish (pl) Ludwik XVI		1 680 342
10	Chinese (zh) 路易十六		1 466 913

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		176 254
2	French (fr) Louis XVI		37 039
3	Spanish (es) Luis XVI de Francia		25 326
4	Japanese (ja) ルイ16世 (フランス王)		18 608
5	Russian (ru) Людовик XVI		18 099
6	German (de) Ludwig XVI.		16 551
7	Italian (it) Luigi XVI di Francia		11 493
8	Chinese (zh) 路易十六		11 485
9	Polish (pl) Ludwik XVI		9 477
10	Portuguese (pt) Luís XVI de França		7 231

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		1 358
2	French (fr) Louis XVI		775
3	German (de) Ludwig XVI.		494
4	Italian (it) Luigi XVI di Francia		290
5	Spanish (es) Luis XVI de Francia		272
6	Russian (ru) Людовик XVI		214
7	Dutch (nl) Lodewijk XVI van Frankrijk		200
8	Japanese (ja) ルイ16世 (フランス王)		140
9	Hebrew (he) לואי השישה עשר, מלך צרפת		128
10	Portuguese (pt) Luís XVI de França		125

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	English (en) Louis XVI		8
2	French (fr) Louis XVI		5
3	Chinese (zh) 路易十六		4
4	Polish (pl) Ludwik XVI		3
5	German (de) Ludwig XVI.		2
6	Spanish (es) Luis XVI de Francia		2
7	Japanese (ja) ルイ16世 (フランス王)		2
8	Bulgarian (bg) Луи XVI		1
9	Czech (cs) Ludvík XVI.		1
10	Basque (eu) Luis XVI.a Borboikoa		1

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information