Sesame

Quality:

Sesame - flowering plant cultivated for its edible seeds. This taxon is the 341^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 404^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Sesame” in English Wikipedia has 91.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 96 references and 18 sections.

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:

The 404^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 341^st most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Sesame” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sesame”, its content was written by 499 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2120 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sesame is on the 404^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 341^st place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1591 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8477 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #808 in February 2003
• Global: #789 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #11091 in August 2014
• Global: #9127 in November 2013

There are 49 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) Sesame		91.2985
2	Swedish (sv) Sesam (växt)		72.0958
3	Turkish (tr) Susam		61.103
4	German (de) Sesam		59.7562
5	French (fr) Sésame		57.8321
6	Chinese (zh) 芝麻		57.4768
7	Japanese (ja) ゴマ		50.1597
8	Malay (ms) Bijan		44.8172
9	Persian (fa) کنجد		44.221
10	Arabic (ar) سمسم		43.7172

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sesame		8 325 643
2	Spanish (es) Sesamum indicum		2 230 615
3	Japanese (ja) ゴマ		1 829 535
4	German (de) Sesam		1 389 183
5	French (fr) Sésame		1 184 681
6	Arabic (ar) سمسم		905 046
7	Chinese (zh) 芝麻		792 231
8	Portuguese (pt) Sesamum indicum		629 545
9	Persian (fa) کنجد		520 760
10	Russian (ru) Кунжут индийский		506 730

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) Sesame		30 070
2	Spanish (es) Sesamum indicum		5 898
3	French (fr) Sésame		4 904
4	German (de) Sesam		4 805
5	Japanese (ja) ゴマ		4 053
6	Chinese (zh) 芝麻		2 836
7	Portuguese (pt) Sesamum indicum		1 532
8	Arabic (ar) سمسم		1 509
9	Italian (it) Sesamum indicum		1 503
10	Russian (ru) Кунжут индийский		1 452

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sesame		499
2	German (de) Sesam		153
3	French (fr) Sésame		120
4	Japanese (ja) ゴマ		114
5	Hebrew (he) שומשום		102
6	Italian (it) Sesamum indicum		94
7	Spanish (es) Sesamum indicum		74
8	Russian (ru) Кунжут индийский		67
9	Persian (fa) کنجد		63
10	Dutch (nl) Sesam		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) Sesame		7
2	Azerbaijani (az) Hind küncütü		1
3	Spanish (es) Sesamum indicum		1
4	Basque (eu) Sesamo		1
5	Italian (it) Sesamum indicum		1
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Sezam		1
7	Chinese (zh) 芝麻		1
8	Arabic (ar) سمسم		0
9	Belarusian (be) Кунжут		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Обикновен сусам		0

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

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