Salt

Quality:

Table salt - mineral used as food ingredient, composed primarily of sodium chloride. Article “Salt” in English Wikipedia has 94.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 141 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7496^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4153^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3922^nd most popular in all topics.

The 2813^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Salt” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Salt”, its content was written by 1219 registered users of English Wikipedia (4153^rd place) and edited by 4602 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2813^th place).

The article is cited 3534 times in English Wikipedia (8364^th place) and cited 30139 times in all languages (5633^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #771 in November 2011
• Global: #993 in September 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #482 in July 2010
• Global: #954 in July 2010

There are 51 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	Chinese (zh) 食盐		96.5547
2	English (en) Salt		94.4667
3	Esperanto (eo) Salo		94.3732
4	Indonesian (id) Garam		93.8499
5	Thai (th) เกลือ		92.7872
6	German (de) Speisesalz		89.9537
7	Spanish (es) Sal común		88.2588
8	Catalan (ca) Sal comuna		74.7656
9	Basque (eu) Gatz arrunt		74.0318
10	Galician (gl) Sal común		73.1473

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Salt		17 211 541
2	Spanish (es) Sal común		7 735 760
3	Russian (ru) Поваренная соль		3 684 535
4	Japanese (ja) 塩		2 901 675
5	German (de) Speisesalz		2 055 801
6	French (fr) Sel alimentaire		1 753 211
7	Chinese (zh) 食盐		1 251 218
8	Arabic (ar) ملح الطعام		986 285
9	Persian (fa) نمک		929 286
10	Polish (pl) Sól kuchenna		829 689

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) Salt		23 641
2	Japanese (ja) 塩		4 936
3	Russian (ru) Поваренная соль		4 675
4	Spanish (es) Sal común		3 788
5	German (de) Speisesalz		3 068
6	French (fr) Sel alimentaire		2 678
7	Chinese (zh) 食盐		2 344
8	Persian (fa) نمک		1 498
9	Polish (pl) Sól kuchenna		1 054
10	Italian (it) Sale da cucina		738

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Salt		1 219
2	German (de) Speisesalz		533
3	French (fr) Sel alimentaire		273
4	Spanish (es) Sal común		263
5	Russian (ru) Поваренная соль		243
6	Japanese (ja) 塩		227
7	Dutch (nl) Keukenzout		183
8	Hebrew (he) מלח בישול		175
9	Chinese (zh) 食盐		144
10	Persian (fa) نمک		94

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	German (de) Speisesalz		3
2	Chinese (zh) 食盐		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Duz		2
4	Tamil (ta) உப்பு		2
5	Danish (da) Husholdningssalt		1
6	English (en) Salt		1
7	Basque (eu) Gatz arrunt		1
8	French (fr) Sel alimentaire		1
9	Hebrew (he) מלח בישול		1
10	Indonesian (id) Garam		1

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

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