Zea mays

Quality:

Maize - species of grass cultivated as a food crop. This taxon is the 24^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 27^th most popular taxon in Spanish Wikipedia. Article “Zea mays” in Spanish Wikipedia has 72.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 65 references and 49 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.83 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Spanish Wikipedia:

es

The 1787^th most popular in Spanish Wikipedia.

es

The 1013^th most editable in Spanish Wikipedia.

The 27^th most popular in taxon in Spanish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1750^th most popular in all topics.

The 921^st most popular in AI.

The 24^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Spanish Wikipedia:

es

The 2173^rd most popular in Spanish Wikipedia in the last month.

es

The 2162^nd most editable in Spanish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4202^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4753^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Zea mays” was edited by 6 authors in Spanish Wikipedia (2162^nd place) and written by 30 authors in all languages (4753^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Zea mays”, its content was written by 441 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia (1013^th place) and edited by 6551 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (921^st place).

Maize is on the 27^th place in local ranking of taxon in Spanish Wikipedia and on the 24^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 4171 times in Spanish Wikipedia (1196^th place) and cited 51648 times in all languages (3071^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #150 in December 2003
• Global: #62 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #507 in November 2013
• Global: #186 in January 2014

There are 55 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	German (de) Mais		100
2	Esperanto (eo) Maizo		94.9649
3	English (en) Maize		94.3029
4	Vietnamese (vi) Ngô		90.9691
5	Ukrainian (uk) Кукурудза		87.4371
6	French (fr) Maïs		85.5575
7	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		83.7408
8	Estonian (et) Mais		82.9599
9	Malay (ms) Jagung		82.0534
10	Portuguese (pt) Milho		76.1226

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Maize		26 716 135
2	Spanish (es) Zea mays		8 589 390
3	German (de) Mais		4 098 332
4	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		4 070 389
5	French (fr) Maïs		3 446 296
6	Russian (ru) Кукуруза		3 092 216
7	Portuguese (pt) Milho		3 002 057
8	Indonesian (id) Jagung		2 327 571
9	Italian (it) Zea mays		1 687 967
10	Chinese (zh) 玉米		1 374 700

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) Maize		79 161
2	Spanish (es) Zea mays		21 417
3	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		18 032
4	Russian (ru) Кукуруза		10 045
5	German (de) Mais		8 867
6	French (fr) Maïs		8 198
7	Portuguese (pt) Milho		6 151
8	Chinese (zh) 玉米		5 948
9	Italian (it) Zea mays		4 498
10	Korean (ko) 옥수수		4 317

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Maize		1 724
2	German (de) Mais		590
3	Spanish (es) Zea mays		441
4	French (fr) Maïs		421
5	Italian (it) Zea mays		240
6	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		228
7	Dutch (nl) Maïs		200
8	Portuguese (pt) Milho		195
9	Hebrew (he) תירס		148
10	Chinese (zh) 玉米		146

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	Spanish (es) Zea mays		6
2	German (de) Mais		5
3	French (fr) Maïs		3
4	English (en) Maize		2
5	Persian (fa) ذرت		2
6	Hindi (hi) मक्का (अनाज)		2
7	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		2
8	Dutch (nl) Maïs		2
9	Russian (ru) Кукуруза		2
10	Esperanto (eo) Maizo		1

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

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