Main course

Main course - featured or primary dish in a meal consisting of several courses. Article "Main course" in English Wikipedia has 25 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Main course" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Main course", its content was written by 91 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 286 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 574 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3297 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #36490 in October 2020
• Global: #78696 in October 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #109320 in July 2013
• Global: #145844 in November 2022

There are 31 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	Chinese (zh) 主菜		35.1229
2	German (de) Hauptgericht		32.2349
3	Polish (pl) Danie główne		27.127
4	Thai (th) อาหารจานหลัก		27.0259
5	Greek (el) Κύριο πιάτο		26.7952
6	Italian (it) Secondo piatto		26.4609
7	Bulgarian (bg) Основно ястие		26.4239
8	Japanese (ja) 主菜		25.9456
9	Hebrew (he) מנה עיקרית		25.8191
10	English (en) Main course		24.9742

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Main course" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Main course		1 224 426
2	Spanish (es) Plato principal		168 030
3	German (de) Hauptgericht		96 105
4	Italian (it) Secondo piatto		95 567
5	French (fr) Plat principal		93 738
6	Russian (ru) Главное блюдо		53 333
7	Simple English (simple) Main course		41 086
8	Thai (th) อาหารจานหลัก		29 457
9	Chinese (zh) 主菜		27 842
10	Dutch (nl) Hoofdgerecht		26 179

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Main course" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Main course		3 233
2	Russian (ru) Главное блюдо		636
3	Japanese (ja) 主菜		431
4	Simple English (simple) Main course		394
5	Italian (it) Secondo piatto		389
6	Spanish (es) Plato principal		370
7	French (fr) Plat principal		269
8	Chinese (zh) 主菜		244
9	German (de) Hauptgericht		184
10	Turkish (tr) Ana yemek		112

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

Language versions of the article "Main course" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Main course		91
2	German (de) Hauptgericht		22
3	Italian (it) Secondo piatto		17
4	Swedish (sv) Huvudrätt		14
5	French (fr) Plat principal		13
6	Russian (ru) Главное блюдо		11
7	Finnish (fi) Pääruoka		9
8	Catalan (ca) Plat principal		8
9	Dutch (nl) Hoofdgerecht		8
10	Spanish (es) Plato principal		7

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

Language versions of the article "Main course" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Main course		2
2	Arabic (ar) طبق رئيسي		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Основно ястие		0
4	Catalan (ca) Plat principal		0
5	Czech (cs) Hlavní chod		0
6	Danish (da) Hovedret		0
7	German (de) Hauptgericht		0
8	Greek (el) Κύριο πιάτο		0
9	Spanish (es) Plato principal		0
10	Basque (eu) Jaki nagusi		0

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

Language versions of the article "Main course" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Secondo piatto		608
2	English (en) Main course		574
3	French (fr) Plat principal		361
4	Korean (ko) 주요리		159
5	Persian (fa) خوراک اصلی		153
6	Russian (ru) Главное блюдо		150
7	Spanish (es) Plato principal		132
8	Vietnamese (vi) Món chính		114
9	Indonesian (id) Hidangan utama		101
10	Japanese (ja) 主菜		97

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic طبق رئيسي
bg	Bulgarian Основно ястие
ca	Catalan Plat principal
cs	Czech Hlavní chod
da	Danish Hovedret
de	German Hauptgericht
el	Greek Κύριο πιάτο
en	English Main course
es	Spanish Plato principal
eu	Basque Jaki nagusi
fa	Persian خوراک اصلی
fi	Finnish Pääruoka
fr	French Plat principal
gl	Galician Prato principal
he	Hebrew מנה עיקרית
hy	Armenian Հիմնական ուտեստ
id	Indonesian Hidangan utama
it	Italian Secondo piatto
ja	Japanese 主菜
ko	Korean 주요리
nl	Dutch Hoofdgerecht
pl	Polish Danie główne
ru	Russian Главное блюдо
simple	Simple English Main course
sr	Serbian Главно јело
sv	Swedish Huvudrätt
th	Thai อาหารจานหลัก
tr	Turkish Ana yemek
uk	Ukrainian Головна страва
vi	Vietnamese Món chính
zh	Chinese 主菜

Best Rank

English: #109320 07.2013

Global: #145844 11.2022

Best Rank

English: #36490 10.2020

Global: #78696 10.2017

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