Turmeric

Quality:

Curcuma longa - plant used as spice. This taxon is the 62^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 58^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Turmeric” in English Wikipedia has 78.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 85 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.76 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4933^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 8869^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 58^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3356^th most popular in all topics.

The 8094^th most popular in AI.

The 62^nd most popular in taxon.

In June 2026 the article “Turmeric” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Turmeric”, its content was written by 895 registered users of English Wikipedia (8869^th place) and edited by 2850 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8094^th place).

Curcuma longa is on the 58^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 62^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 2472 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7989 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #531 in February 2002
• Global: #610 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2158 in June 2013
• Global: #757 in July 2014

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, 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	Greek (el) Κουρκουμάς		81.0726
2	English (en) Turmeric		78.8053
3	French (fr) Curcuma		75.1585
4	Spanish (es) Curcuma longa		61.6225
5	German (de) Kurkuma		61.4364
6	Vietnamese (vi) Nghệ		57.6716
7	Slovenian (sl) Kurkuma		51.1987
8	Malay (ms) Kunyit		50.7769
9	Chinese (zh) 薑黃		49.325
10	Japanese (ja) ウコン		48.3529

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Turmeric		21 524 699
2	German (de) Kurkuma		5 513 891
3	Spanish (es) Curcuma longa		4 897 929
4	French (fr) Curcuma		3 023 993
5	Japanese (ja) ウコン		2 342 680
6	Indonesian (id) Kunyit		1 605 701
7	Portuguese (pt) Açafrão-da-terra		1 578 354
8	Chinese (zh) 薑黃		1 557 333
9	Arabic (ar) كركم		1 128 546
10	Italian (it) Curcuma longa		1 108 050

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) Turmeric		24 650
2	German (de) Kurkuma		8 306
3	French (fr) Curcuma		7 093
4	Portuguese (pt) Açafrão-da-terra		6 384
5	Spanish (es) Curcuma longa		6 286
6	Chinese (zh) 薑黃		3 692
7	Japanese (ja) ウコン		3 281
8	Persian (fa) زردچوبه		1 922
9	Polish (pl) Ostryż długi		1 818
10	Indonesian (id) Kunyit		1 741

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Turmeric		895
2	French (fr) Curcuma		211
3	German (de) Kurkuma		200
4	Spanish (es) Curcuma longa		102
5	Japanese (ja) ウコン		95
6	Italian (it) Curcuma longa		86
7	Hebrew (he) כורכום		78
8	Hindi (hi) हल्दी		75
9	Indonesian (id) Kunyit		70
10	Arabic (ar) كركم		69

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) Turmeric		3
2	Japanese (ja) ウコン		2
3	Chinese (zh) 薑黃		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Uzun sarıkök		1
5	Czech (cs) Kurkuma		1
6	Greek (el) Κουρκουμάς		1
7	French (fr) Curcuma		1
8	Simple English (simple) Turmeric		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Nghệ		1
10	Arabic (ar) كركم		0

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

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