Voynich manuscript

Quality:

Voynich manuscript - illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. This book is the 92^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 96^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Voynich manuscript” in English Wikipedia has 81.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 276 references and 46 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 14.4 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 7775^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4765^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 96^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6624^th most popular in all topics.

The 3886^th most popular in AI.

The 92^nd most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6836^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 5515^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5098^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6353^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Voynich manuscript” was edited by 12 authors in English Wikipedia (5515^th place) and written by 26 authors in all languages (6353^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Voynich manuscript”, its content was written by 1131 registered users of English Wikipedia (4765^th place) and edited by 3987 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3886^th place).

Voynich manuscript is on the 96^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 92^nd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 116 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1429 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22 in June 2004
• Global: #168 in May 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #954 in October 2013
• Global: #1147 in February 2011

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	Spanish (es) Manuscrito Voynich		100
2	Serbian (sr) Војничев рукопис		100
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Voynichev rukopis		100
4	Turkish (tr) Voynich el yazması		97.4499
5	Hungarian (hu) Voynich-kézirat		97.1429
6	Russian (ru) Рукопись Войнича		95.3162
7	Greek (el) Χειρόγραφο Βόινιτς		87.8737
8	Slovenian (sl) Vojničev rokopis		87.1417
9	Finnish (fi) Voynichin käsikirjoitus		86.2975
10	German (de) Voynich-Manuskript		83.6339

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Voynich manuscript		16 032 120
2	Japanese (ja) ヴォイニッチ手稿		3 729 892
3	Spanish (es) Manuscrito Voynich		3 112 492
4	Russian (ru) Рукопись Войнича		2 737 057
5	German (de) Voynich-Manuskript		2 202 068
6	French (fr) Manuscrit de Voynich		1 435 455
7	Italian (it) Manoscritto Voynich		951 753
8	Polish (pl) Manuskrypt Wojnicza		746 644
9	Portuguese (pt) Manuscrito Voynich		675 201
10	Chinese (zh) 伏尼契手稿		570 354

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) Voynich manuscript		85 849
2	German (de) Voynich-Manuskript		18 584
3	Japanese (ja) ヴォイニッチ手稿		16 491
4	Russian (ru) Рукопись Войнича		12 284
5	Spanish (es) Manuscrito Voynich		9 111
6	French (fr) Manuscrit de Voynich		4 949
7	Italian (it) Manoscritto Voynich		4 243
8	Portuguese (pt) Manuscrito Voynich		3 640
9	Polish (pl) Manuskrypt Wojnicza		3 328
10	Chinese (zh) 伏尼契手稿		2 806

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Voynich manuscript		1 131
2	German (de) Voynich-Manuskript		369
3	French (fr) Manuscrit de Voynich		308
4	Russian (ru) Рукопись Войнича		287
5	Spanish (es) Manuscrito Voynich		229
6	Italian (it) Manoscritto Voynich		173
7	Dutch (nl) Voynichmanuscript		138
8	Hungarian (hu) Voynich-kézirat		120
9	Polish (pl) Manuskrypt Wojnicza		95
10	Japanese (ja) ヴォイニッチ手稿		86

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) Voynich manuscript		12
2	Catalan (ca) Manuscrit Voynich		2
3	German (de) Voynich-Manuskript		2
4	French (fr) Manuscrit de Voynich		2
5	Armenian (hy) Վոյնիչի ձեռագիր		2
6	Spanish (es) Manuscrito Voynich		1
7	Persian (fa) دست‌نوشته‌های ووینیچ		1
8	Croatian (hr) Voynichev rukopis		1
9	Georgian (ka) ვოინიჩის ხელნაწერი		1
10	Polish (pl) Manuskrypt Wojnicza		1

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

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