Thistle

Thistle - common name of a group of flowering plants. Article “Thistle” in English Wikipedia has 64.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 41 references and 10 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.

Since the creation of article “Thistle”, its content was written by 200 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 659 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 791 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2486 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #24720 in July 2012
• Global: #36538 in June 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #15377 in August 2020
• Global: #19529 in June 2008

There are 25 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	English (en) Thistle		64.247
2	Russian (ru) Репей (значения)		52.2203
3	Malay (ms) Tisel		48.9336
4	Polish (pl) Oset (potocznie)		41.6838
5	Japanese (ja) アザミ		41.6793
6	Chinese (zh) 蓟花		40.0807
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Tistel		36.7459
8	German (de) Disteln		36.4172
9	Simple English (simple) Thistle		31.8731
10	Esperanto (eo) Kardo		29.1969

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thistle		4 736 717
2	Japanese (ja) アザミ		1 438 583
3	Spanish (es) Cardo		1 262 871
4	German (de) Disteln		1 117 765
5	French (fr) Chardon		1 075 707
6	Portuguese (pt) Cardo		290 959
7	Russian (ru) Репей (значения)		128 051
8	Polish (pl) Oset (potocznie)		120 089
9	Turkish (tr) Devedikeni		115 333
10	Dutch (nl) Distel		110 609

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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 "Thistle" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thistle		20 436
2	Japanese (ja) アザミ		5 970
3	German (de) Disteln		4 229
4	French (fr) Chardon		3 182
5	Spanish (es) Cardo		2 080
6	Polish (pl) Oset (potocznie)		1 703
7	Russian (ru) Репей (значения)		1 024
8	Chinese (zh) 蓟花		715
9	Portuguese (pt) Cardo		549
10	Turkish (tr) Devedikeni		529

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thistle		200
2	French (fr) Chardon		94
3	German (de) Disteln		63
4	Spanish (es) Cardo		50
5	Japanese (ja) アザミ		49
6	Hebrew (he) קוץ		33
7	Portuguese (pt) Cardo		25
8	Dutch (nl) Distel		22
9	Polish (pl) Oset (potocznie)		17
10	Turkish (tr) Devedikeni		16

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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 "Thistle" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) شوك (نبات)		1
2	German (de) Disteln		1
3	Danish (da) Bladhovedtidsel		0
4	English (en) Thistle		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Kardo		0
6	Spanish (es) Cardo		0
7	Basque (eu) Kardu		0
8	Persian (fa) گل خار		0
9	French (fr) Chardon		0
10	Galician (gl) Cardo		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 "Thistle" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Thistle		791
2	French (fr) Chardon		253
3	German (de) Disteln		231
4	Spanish (es) Cardo		216
5	Japanese (ja) アザミ		187
6	Hebrew (he) קוץ		103
7	Portuguese (pt) Cardo		100
8	Swedish (sv) Tistlar		91
9	Norwegian (no) Tistel		70
10	Russian (ru) Репей (значения)		67

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شوك (نبات)
da	Danish Bladhovedtidsel
de	German Disteln
en	English Thistle
eo	Esperanto Kardo
es	Spanish Cardo
eu	Basque Kardu
fa	Persian گل خار
fr	French Chardon
gl	Galician Cardo
he	Hebrew קוץ
id	Indonesian Rumput duri
ja	Japanese アザミ
ko	Korean 엉겅퀴류
ms	Malay Tisel
nl	Dutch Distel
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Tistel
no	Norwegian Tistel
pl	Polish Oset (potocznie)
pt	Portuguese Cardo
ru	Russian Репей (значения)
simple	Simple English Thistle
sv	Swedish Tistlar
tr	Turkish Devedikeni
zh	Chinese 蓟花

Best Rank

English: #15377 08.2020

Global: #19529 06.2008

Best Rank

English: #24720 07.2012

Global: #36538 06.2016

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