Old English

Quality:

Old English - earliest historical form of English. Article “Old English” in English Wikipedia has 72.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 82 references and 32 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.01 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 6699^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 6998^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7197^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6052^nd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7148^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Old English” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (6052^nd place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (7148^th place).

Since the creation of article “Old English”, its content was written by 993 registered users of English Wikipedia (6998^th place) and edited by 3018 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7197^th place).

The article is cited 8823 times in English Wikipedia (2337^th place) and cited 25003 times in all languages (6766^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #75 in November 2002
• Global: #208 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #105 in August 2018
• Global: #411 in August 2018

There are 53 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	English (en) Old English		72.1067
2	Russian (ru) Древнеанглийский язык		63.7897
3	German (de) Altenglisch		49.2845
4	Bulgarian (bg) Староанглийски език		40.4242
5	Spanish (es) Inglés antiguo		37.0395
6	Hungarian (hu) Óangol nyelv		35.8148
7	French (fr) Vieil anglais		35.6224
8	Chinese (zh) 古英语		34.4679
9	Latin (la) Lingua Anglo-Saxonica		34.3831
10	Polish (pl) Język staroangielski		33.896

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Old English		18 349 611
2	Spanish (es) Inglés antiguo		1 074 532
3	German (de) Altenglisch		925 608
4	Russian (ru) Древнеанглийский язык		859 317
5	Japanese (ja) 古英語		675 948
6	Chinese (zh) 古英语		432 530
7	Italian (it) Lingua inglese antica		400 891
8	Portuguese (pt) Inglês antigo		391 211
9	French (fr) Vieil anglais		369 500
10	Polish (pl) Język staroangielski		357 235

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) Old English		48 922
2	Russian (ru) Древнеанглийский язык		2 935
3	Japanese (ja) 古英語		2 245
4	Spanish (es) Inglés antiguo		1 828
5	German (de) Altenglisch		1 701
6	Chinese (zh) 古英语		1 426
7	French (fr) Vieil anglais		979
8	Persian (fa) زبان انگلیسی باستان		853
9	Italian (it) Lingua inglese antica		838
10	Portuguese (pt) Inglês antigo		525

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Old English		993
2	German (de) Altenglisch		195
3	French (fr) Vieil anglais		166
4	Russian (ru) Древнеанглийский язык		129
5	Italian (it) Lingua inglese antica		120
6	Spanish (es) Inglés antiguo		77
7	Dutch (nl) Oudengels		72
8	Japanese (ja) 古英語		71
9	Polish (pl) Język staroangielski		62
10	Turkish (tr) Eski İngilizce		61

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) Old English		10
2	Serbian (sr) Староенглески језик		3
3	Italian (it) Lingua inglese antica		2
4	Russian (ru) Древнеанглийский язык		2
5	Arabic (ar) اللغة الإنجليزية القديمة		1
6	Catalan (ca) Anglès antic		1
7	French (fr) Vieil anglais		1
8	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Inggris Kuno		1
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Gammalengelsk		1
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Staroengleski jezik		1

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

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