Zea mays

Quality:

Maize - species of grass cultivated as a food crop. This taxon is the 29^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 25^th most popular taxon in Spanish Wikipedia. Article “Zea mays” in Spanish Wikipedia has 68.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 70 references and 45 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.59 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 1804^th most popular in Spanish Wikipedia.

es

The 1034^th most editable in Spanish Wikipedia.

The 25^th most popular in taxon in Spanish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1974^th most popular in all topics.

The 1130^th most popular in AI.

The 29^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Spanish Wikipedia:

es

The 4624^th most popular in Spanish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7176^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7746^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Zea mays”, its content was written by 448 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia (1034^th place) and edited by 6183 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1130^th place).

Maize is on the 25^th place in local ranking of taxon in Spanish Wikipedia and on the 29^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 4117 times in Spanish Wikipedia (1286^th place) and cited 48913 times in all languages (3342^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #150 in December 2003
• Global: #75 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #512 in November 2013
• Global: #206 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, 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	German (de) Mais		100
2	Esperanto (eo) Maizo		94.6354
3	English (en) Maize		94.3291
4	Vietnamese (vi) Ngô		90.6011
5	Ukrainian (uk) Кукурудза		84.1136
6	Malay (ms) Jagung		83.9614
7	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		82.9679
8	Estonian (et) Mais		80.9765
9	Portuguese (pt) Milho		76.5815
10	Persian (fa) ذرت (گونه)		73.7504

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Maize		27 567 003
2	Spanish (es) Zea mays		8 764 222
3	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		4 227 919
4	German (de) Mais		4 224 041
5	Russian (ru) Кукуруза		3 374 913
6	Portuguese (pt) Milho		3 045 330
7	Indonesian (id) Jagung		2 363 048
8	Italian (it) Zea mays		1 743 183
9	Chinese (zh) 玉米		1 433 351
10	Polish (pl) Kukurydza zwyczajna		1 132 235

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		51 897
2	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		15 979
3	Spanish (es) Zea mays		10 493
4	German (de) Mais		8 077
5	Russian (ru) Кукуруза		6 839
6	Chinese (zh) 玉米		4 642
7	Portuguese (pt) Milho		3 803
8	Italian (it) Zea mays		3 368
9	Persian (fa) ذرت (گونه)		1 682
10	Korean (ko) 옥수수		1 499

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Maize		1 754
2	German (de) Mais		594
3	Spanish (es) Zea mays		448
4	Italian (it) Zea mays		245
5	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		236
6	Dutch (nl) Maïs		203
7	Portuguese (pt) Milho		202
8	Hebrew (he) תירס		152
9	Chinese (zh) 玉米		150
10	Russian (ru) Кукуруза		133

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) Maize		7
2	Russian (ru) Кукуруза		3
3	Italian (it) Zea mays		2
4	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		2
5	Chinese (zh) 玉米		2
6	Arabic (ar) ذرة شامية		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Qarğıdalı		1
8	Greek (el) Καλαμπόκι		1
9	Esperanto (eo) Maizo		1
10	Dutch (nl) Maïs		1

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

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