Public library

Public library - organized collection of books and information resources made accessible for the public. Article "Public library" in English Wikipedia has 92.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 181 references and 25 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Public library" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Public library", its content was written by 433 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1188 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2967 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7278 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3473 in July 2004
• Global: #7189 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #54951 in September 2014
• Global: #50206 in September 2011

There are 38 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	English (en) Public library		92.4319
2	French (fr) Bibliothèque publique		86.6154
3	Dutch (nl) Openbare bibliotheek		63.2728
4	Chinese (zh) 公共图书馆		60.0994
5	Latin (la) Bibliotheca publica		56.1354
6	Catalan (ca) Biblioteca pública		54.0999
7	Vietnamese (vi) Thư viện công cộng		49.4086
8	Malay (ms) Perpustakaan awam		44.9524
9	Swedish (sv) Folkbibliotek		43.5442
10	Spanish (es) Biblioteca pública		39.2796

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Public library" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Public library		2 380 553
2	Spanish (es) Biblioteca pública		422 865
3	Japanese (ja) 公共図書館		322 873
4	Arabic (ar) مكتبة عامة		166 844
5	French (fr) Bibliothèque publique		116 625
6	Dutch (nl) Openbare bibliotheek		100 712
7	Portuguese (pt) Biblioteca pública		91 161
8	Chinese (zh) 公共图书馆		88 021
9	German (de) Öffentliche Bibliothek		86 913
10	Thai (th) ห้องสมุดสาธารณะ		54 713

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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 "Public library" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Public library		8 424
2	Japanese (ja) 公共図書館		356
3	Spanish (es) Biblioteca pública		289
4	Chinese (zh) 公共图书馆		289
5	Thai (th) ห้องสมุดสาธารณะ		226
6	Dutch (nl) Openbare bibliotheek		222
7	Portuguese (pt) Biblioteca pública		190
8	French (fr) Bibliothèque publique		181
9	German (de) Öffentliche Bibliothek		177
10	Arabic (ar) مكتبة عامة		167

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Public library		433
2	French (fr) Bibliothèque publique		105
3	Dutch (nl) Openbare bibliotheek		86
4	Japanese (ja) 公共図書館		81
5	German (de) Öffentliche Bibliothek		70
6	Spanish (es) Biblioteca pública		59
7	Chinese (zh) 公共图书馆		41
8	Danish (da) Folkebibliotek		39
9	Portuguese (pt) Biblioteca pública		37
10	Swedish (sv) Folkbibliotek		30

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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 "Public library" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Thai (th) ห้องสมุดสาธารณะ		3
2	English (en) Public library		2
3	Catalan (ca) Biblioteca pública		1
4	Arabic (ar) مكتبة عامة		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) İctimai kitabxana		0
6	Czech (cs) Veřejná knihovna		0
7	Danish (da) Folkebibliotek		0
8	German (de) Öffentliche Bibliothek		0
9	Greek (el) Δημόσια βιβλιοθήκη		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Publika biblioteko		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 "Public library" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Public library		2 967
2	Japanese (ja) 公共図書館		696
3	Spanish (es) Biblioteca pública		423
4	Chinese (zh) 公共图书馆		368
5	French (fr) Bibliothèque publique		309
6	German (de) Öffentliche Bibliothek		285
7	Dutch (nl) Openbare bibliotheek		269
8	Portuguese (pt) Biblioteca pública		221
9	Swedish (sv) Folkbibliotek		210
10	Arabic (ar) مكتبة عامة		201

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مكتبة عامة
az	Azerbaijani İctimai kitabxana
ca	Catalan Biblioteca pública
cs	Czech Veřejná knihovna
da	Danish Folkebibliotek
de	German Öffentliche Bibliothek
el	Greek Δημόσια βιβλιοθήκη
en	English Public library
eo	Esperanto Publika biblioteko
es	Spanish Biblioteca pública
et	Estonian Rahvaraamatukogu
eu	Basque Liburutegi publiko
fa	Persian کتابخانه عمومی
fr	French Bibliothèque publique
hr	Croatian Narodna knjižnica
hu	Hungarian Közkönyvtár
hy	Armenian Հանրային գրադարան
id	Indonesian Perpustakaan umum
ja	Japanese 公共図書館
ko	Korean 공공 도서관
la	Latin Bibliotheca publica
ms	Malay Perpustakaan awam
nl	Dutch Openbare bibliotheek
no	Norwegian Folkebibliotek
pl	Polish Biblioteka publiczna
pt	Portuguese Biblioteca pública
ru	Russian Публичная библиотека
simple	Simple English Public library
sr	Serbian Javna biblioteka
sv	Swedish Folkbibliotek
ta	Tamil பொது நூலகம்
th	Thai ห้องสมุดสาธารณะ
tr	Turkish Halk kütüphanesi
uk	Ukrainian Публічна бібліотека
ur	Urdu عوامی کتب خانہ
vi	Vietnamese Thư viện công cộng
zh	Chinese 公共图书馆
zhminnan	Min Nan Kong-kiōng tô͘-su-koán

Best Rank

English: #54951 09.2014

Global: #50206 09.2011

Best Rank

English: #3473 07.2004

Global: #7189 07.2004

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