Paleolithic

Quality:

Paleolithic - prehistoric period, first part of the Stone Age. Article “Paleolithic” in English Wikipedia has 93.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 243 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.94 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3694^th most popular in all topics.

The 4690^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Paleolithic” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Paleolithic”, its content was written by 817 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3707 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4690^th place).

The article is cited 2949 times in English Wikipedia and cited 25705 times in all languages (6551^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #814 in September 2003
• Global: #795 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3474 in September 2014
• Global: #1340 in September 2014

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	Simple English (simple) Palaeolithic		94.3382
2	English (en) Paleolithic		93.9422
3	Swedish (sv) Paleolitikum		92.3556
4	Norwegian (no) Paleolitikum		85.2438
5	Russian (ru) Палеолит		78.0664
6	Catalan (ca) Paleolític		74.5613
7	Slovenian (sl) Paleolitik		70.5895
8	Romanian (ro) Paleolitic		62.6119
9	Korean (ko) 구석기 시대		61.4009
10	Spanish (es) Paleolítico		57.7965

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paleolithic		12 626 346
2	Spanish (es) Paleolítico		11 130 810
3	Portuguese (pt) Paleolítico		3 110 560
4	Russian (ru) Палеолит		2 874 403
5	French (fr) Paléolithique		2 317 584
6	Italian (it) Paleolitico		1 759 221
7	German (de) Altsteinzeit		1 649 442
8	Indonesian (id) Paleolitikum		1 255 786
9	Japanese (ja) 旧石器時代		1 142 064
10	Thai (th) ยุคหินเก่า		1 045 728

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) Paleolithic		31 066
2	Spanish (es) Paleolítico		5 782
3	Japanese (ja) 旧石器時代		5 601
4	Russian (ru) Палеолит		4 949
5	French (fr) Paléolithique		4 184
6	German (de) Altsteinzeit		3 396
7	Italian (it) Paleolitico		2 468
8	Thai (th) ยุคหินเก่า		2 426
9	Portuguese (pt) Paleolítico		2 042
10	Persian (fa) پارینه‌سنگی		1 938

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Paleolithic		817
2	Spanish (es) Paleolítico		342
3	French (fr) Paléolithique		217
4	Italian (it) Paleolitico		169
5	German (de) Altsteinzeit		161
6	Russian (ru) Палеолит		148
7	Portuguese (pt) Paleolítico		127
8	Turkish (tr) Eski Taş Çağı		96
9	Catalan (ca) Paleolític		88
10	Hebrew (he) התקופה הפלאוליתית		86

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) Paleolithic		3
2	Spanish (es) Paleolítico		2
3	Catalan (ca) Paleolític		1
4	Basque (eu) Paleolitoa		1
5	Hebrew (he) התקופה הפלאוליתית		1
6	Indonesian (id) Paleolitikum		1
7	Polish (pl) Paleolit		1
8	Russian (ru) Палеолит		1
9	Simple English (simple) Palaeolithic		1
10	Swedish (sv) Paleolitikum		1

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

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