Simple English Wikipedia

Simple English Wikipedia - Basic/Special English edition of Wikipedia. This website is the 453^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 900^th most popular website in English Wikipedia. Article “Simple English Wikipedia” in English Wikipedia has 35.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.88 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Simple English Wikipedia” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Simple English Wikipedia”, its content was written by 425 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1979 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Simple English Wikipedia is on the 900^th place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 453^rd place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 130 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4494 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4892 in April 2022
• Global: #2537 in March 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #108544 in September 2010
• Global: #43257 in February 2009

There are 46 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) Simple English Wikipedia		37.4296
2	English (en) Simple English Wikipedia		35.7184
3	Catalan (ca) Viquipèdia en anglès bàsic		31.6131
4	Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedia tiếng Anh đơn giản		30.3553
5	German (de) Simple-English-Wikipedia		29.9346
6	Hebrew (he) ויקיפדיה באנגלית פשוטה		29.664
7	Russian (ru) Википедия на упрощённом английском языке		29.4451
8	Spanish (es) Wikipedia en inglés simple		27.2263
9	Arabic (ar) ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية البسيطة		27.0037
10	Armenian (hy) Պարզեցված անգլերեն Վիքիպեդիա		26.6655

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Simple English Wikipedia" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Simple English (simple) Simple English Wikipedia		1 720 480
2	English (en) Simple English Wikipedia		1 332 329
3	Russian (ru) Википедия на упрощённом английском языке		204 329
4	Japanese (ja) シンプル英語版ウィキペディア		169 890
5	German (de) Simple-English-Wikipedia		101 297
6	Spanish (es) Wikipedia en inglés simple		92 368
7	French (fr) Wikipédia en anglais simple		90 508
8	Persian (fa) ویکی‌پدیای انگلیسی ساده		66 141
9	Hebrew (he) ויקיפדיה באנגלית פשוטה		54 599
10	Polish (pl) Wikipedia w języku Simple English		50 247

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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 "Simple English Wikipedia" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Simple English (simple) Simple English Wikipedia		7 980
2	English (en) Simple English Wikipedia		4 873
3	Japanese (ja) シンプル英語版ウィキペディア		328
4	German (de) Simple-English-Wikipedia		279
5	Chinese (zh) 简单英语维基百科		187
6	Russian (ru) Википедия на упрощённом английском языке		175
7	French (fr) Wikipédia en anglais simple		142
8	Persian (fa) ویکی‌پدیای انگلیسی ساده		118
9	Spanish (es) Wikipedia en inglés simple		113
10	Polish (pl) Wikipedia w języku Simple English		85

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Simple English (simple) Simple English Wikipedia		532
2	English (en) Simple English Wikipedia		425
3	German (de) Simple-English-Wikipedia		194
4	Russian (ru) Википедия на упрощённом английском языке		94
5	French (fr) Wikipédia en anglais simple		55
6	Italian (it) Wikipedia in inglese semplificato		55
7	Hebrew (he) ויקיפדיה באנגלית פשוטה		52
8	Chinese (zh) 简单英语维基百科		43
9	Spanish (es) Wikipedia en inglés simple		40
10	Dutch (nl) Simpel-Engels-Wikipedia		36

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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 "Simple English Wikipedia" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Simple English (simple) Simple English Wikipedia		8
2	German (de) Simple-English-Wikipedia		2
3	English (en) Simple English Wikipedia		2
4	French (fr) Wikipédia en anglais simple		1
5	Norwegian (no) Forenklet engelsk Wikipedia		1
6	Arabic (ar) ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية البسيطة		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Sadə ingiliscə Vikipediya		0
8	Belarusian (be) Вікіпедыя на спрошчанай англійскай мове		0
9	Catalan (ca) Viquipèdia en anglès bàsic		0
10	Czech (cs) Wikipedie ve zjednodušené angličtině		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 "Simple English Wikipedia" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Galician (gl) Wikipedia en inglés simple		359
2	French (fr) Wikipédia en anglais simple		311
3	Ukrainian (uk) Вікіпедія спрощеною англійською мовою		289
4	Persian (fa) ویکی‌پدیای انگلیسی ساده		275
5	Korean (ko) 쉬운 영어 위키백과		217
6	Thai (th) วิกิพีเดียภาษาอังกฤษอย่างง่าย		180
7	Arabic (ar) ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية البسيطة		173
8	Russian (ru) Википедия на упрощённом английском языке		163
9	Turkish (tr) Basit İngilizce Vikipedi		162
10	Indonesian (id) Wikipedia bahasa Inggris Sederhana		149

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية البسيطة
az	Azerbaijani Sadə ingiliscə Vikipediya
be	Belarusian Вікіпедыя на спрошчанай англійскай мове
ca	Catalan Viquipèdia en anglès bàsic
cs	Czech Wikipedie ve zjednodušené angličtině
da	Danish Forenklet engelsk Wikipedia
de	German Simple-English-Wikipedia
el	Greek Απλή Αγγλική Βικιπαίδεια
en	English Simple English Wikipedia
eo	Esperanto Vikipedio en baza angla lingvo
es	Spanish Wikipedia en inglés simple
et	Estonian Vikipeedia lihtsustatud inglise keeles
eu	Basque Ingeles sinplezko Wikipedia
fa	Persian ویکی‌پدیای انگلیسی ساده
fi	Finnish Selkokielinen englanninkielinen Wikipedia
fr	French Wikipédia en anglais simple
gl	Galician Wikipedia en inglés simple
he	Hebrew ויקיפדיה באנגלית פשוטה
hi	Hindi साधारण अंग्रेज़ी विकिपीडिया
hu	Hungarian Egyszerűsített angol nyelvű Wikipédia
hy	Armenian Պարզեցված անգլերեն Վիքիպեդիա
id	Indonesian Wikipedia bahasa Inggris Sederhana
it	Italian Wikipedia in inglese semplificato
ja	Japanese シンプル英語版ウィキペディア
ka	Georgian გამარტივებული ინგლისური ვიკიპედია
kk	Kazakh Жеңілдетілген ағылшын тіліндегі Уикипедия
ko	Korean 쉬운 영어 위키백과
la	Latin Vicipaedia Anglica simplex
ms	Malay Wikipedia Bahasa Inggeris Mudah
nl	Dutch Simpel-Engels-Wikipedia
no	Norwegian Forenklet engelsk Wikipedia
pl	Polish Wikipedia w języku Simple English
pt	Portuguese Wikipédia em inglês simples
ru	Russian Википедия на упрощённом английском языке
sh	Serbo-Croatian Wikipedija na jednostavnom engleskom jeziku
simple	Simple English Simple English Wikipedia
sr	Serbian Википедија на једноставном енглеском језику
sv	Swedish Wikipedia på lätt engelska
ta	Tamil எளிய ஆங்கில விக்கிப்பீடியா
th	Thai วิกิพีเดียภาษาอังกฤษอย่างง่าย
tr	Turkish Basit İngilizce Vikipedi
uk	Ukrainian Вікіпедія спрощеною англійською мовою
ur	Urdu آسان انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا
uz	Uzbek Soddalashtirilgan ingliz tilidagi Vikipediya
vi	Vietnamese Wikipedia tiếng Anh đơn giản
zh	Chinese 简单英语维基百科

Best Rank

English: #108544 09.2010

Global: #43257 02.2009

Best Rank

English: #4892 04.2022

Global: #2537 03.2016

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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