Turmeric

Quality:

Curcuma longa - plant used as spice. This taxon is the 58^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 57^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Turmeric” in English Wikipedia has 80 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 89 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.89 points.

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:

en

The 4682^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 8793^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 57^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3248^th most popular in all topics.

The 7839^th most popular in AI.

The 58^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8404^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Turmeric” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Turmeric”, its content was written by 875 registered users of English Wikipedia (8793^rd place) and edited by 2852 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7839^th place).

Curcuma longa is on the 57^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 58^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 2420 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7762 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #529 in February 2002
• Global: #560 in April 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2133 in June 2013
• Global: #715 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, 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) Turmeric		80.0478
2	French (fr) Curcuma		74.8187
3	Greek (el) Κουρκουμάς		74.354
4	German (de) Kurkuma		62.7029
5	Spanish (es) Curcuma longa		61.9453
6	Vietnamese (vi) Nghệ		57.9115
7	Indonesian (id) Kunyit		50.5316
8	Chinese (zh) 薑黃		49.6766
9	Malay (ms) Kunyit		49.1246
10	Japanese (ja) ウコン		48.848

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Turmeric		21 039 019
2	German (de) Kurkuma		5 394 699
3	Spanish (es) Curcuma longa		4 795 778
4	French (fr) Curcuma		2 920 425
5	Japanese (ja) ウコン		2 293 730
6	Indonesian (id) Kunyit		1 569 223
7	Chinese (zh) 薑黃		1 498 250
8	Portuguese (pt) Açafrão-da-terra		1 472 764
9	Arabic (ar) كركم		1 111 373
10	Italian (it) Curcuma longa		1 089 046

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		49 980
2	Spanish (es) Curcuma longa		11 255
3	German (de) Kurkuma		8 857
4	Portuguese (pt) Açafrão-da-terra		7 719
5	French (fr) Curcuma		7 133
6	Chinese (zh) 薑黃		5 934
7	Japanese (ja) ウコン		4 124
8	Indonesian (id) Kunyit		2 977
9	Polish (pl) Ostryż długi		2 613
10	Russian (ru) Куркума длинная		2 177

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Turmeric		875
2	French (fr) Curcuma		205
3	German (de) Kurkuma		199
4	Spanish (es) Curcuma longa		100
5	Japanese (ja) ウコン		91
6	Italian (it) Curcuma longa		84
7	Hebrew (he) כורכום		77
8	Hindi (hi) हल्दी		75
9	Arabic (ar) كركم		68
10	Hungarian (hu) Kurkuma		66

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	Portuguese (pt) Açafrão-da-terra		4
2	English (en) Turmeric		2
3	German (de) Kurkuma		1
4	Galician (gl) Cúrcuma		1
5	Hindi (hi) हल्दी		1
6	Italian (it) Curcuma longa		1
7	Japanese (ja) ウコン		1
8	Polish (pl) Ostryż długi		1
9	Arabic (ar) كركم		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Uzun sarıkök		0

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

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