Ex nihilo nihil fit

Nothing comes from nothing - expression of a thesis first argued by Parmenides. Article “Ex nihilo nihil fit” in Finnish Wikipedia has 18.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Finnish) language version.

Since the creation of article “Ex nihilo nihil fit”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia and edited by 306 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 190 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Finnish): #9459 in October 2021
• Global: #46828 in May 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Finnish): #95951 in May 2025
• Global: #91010 in April 2017

There are 17 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) Creatio ex materia		30.3247
2	Spanish (es) Nada surge de la nada		27.6873
3	Latin (la) Ex nihilo nihil fit		26.1765
4	Italian (it) Ex nihilo nihil fit		22.4794
5	Portuguese (pt) Ex nihilo nihil fit		19.4199
6	Finnish (fi) Ex nihilo nihil fit		18.4817
7	Estonian (et) Ex nihilo nihil fit		18.2672
8	Ukrainian (uk) Нічого не виникає з нічого		15.6163
9	Persian (fa) هیچ چیز از هیچ حاصل نمی‌شود		13.1704
10	Japanese (ja) 無からは何も生じない		13.0061

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ex nihilo nihil fit" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Creatio ex materia		1 084 299
2	Spanish (es) Nada surge de la nada		311 075
3	Italian (it) Ex nihilo nihil fit		180 982
4	Portuguese (pt) Ex nihilo nihil fit		179 918
5	Japanese (ja) 無からは何も生じない		75 416
6	Greek (el) Ουδέν εξ ουδενός		21 397
7	Slovak (sk) Ex nihilo nihil fit		9 129
8	Danish (da) Ex nihilo nihil fit		8 714
9	Norwegian (no) Fra ingenting kommer ingenting		7 592
10	Indonesian (id) Ex nihilo nihil fit		6 084

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Ex nihilo nihil fit" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Creatio ex materia		2 675
2	Spanish (es) Nada surge de la nada		763
3	Portuguese (pt) Ex nihilo nihil fit		525
4	Italian (it) Ex nihilo nihil fit		504
5	Japanese (ja) 無からは何も生じない		355
6	Ukrainian (uk) Нічого не виникає з нічого		65
7	Greek (el) Ουδέν εξ ουδενός		64
8	Simple English (simple) Creation ex materia		55
9	Finnish (fi) Ex nihilo nihil fit		51
10	Indonesian (id) Ex nihilo nihil fit		32

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

Language versions of the article "Ex nihilo nihil fit" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Creatio ex materia		134
2	Italian (it) Ex nihilo nihil fit		44
3	Spanish (es) Nada surge de la nada		31
4	Norwegian (no) Fra ingenting kommer ingenting		16
5	Latin (la) Ex nihilo nihil fit		13
6	Danish (da) Ex nihilo nihil fit		12
7	Greek (el) Ουδέν εξ ουδενός		11
8	Vietnamese (vi) Ex nihilo nihil fit		11
9	Japanese (ja) 無からは何も生じない		9
10	Portuguese (pt) Ex nihilo nihil fit		6

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

Language versions of the article "Ex nihilo nihil fit" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Latin (la) Ex nihilo nihil fit		1
2	Danish (da) Ex nihilo nihil fit		0
3	Greek (el) Ουδέν εξ ουδενός		0
4	English (en) Creatio ex materia		0
5	Spanish (es) Nada surge de la nada		0
6	Estonian (et) Ex nihilo nihil fit		0
7	Persian (fa) هیچ چیز از هیچ حاصل نمی‌شود		0
8	Finnish (fi) Ex nihilo nihil fit		0
9	Indonesian (id) Ex nihilo nihil fit		0
10	Italian (it) Ex nihilo nihil fit		0

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

Language versions of the article "Ex nihilo nihil fit" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Creatio ex materia		42
2	Italian (it) Ex nihilo nihil fit		37
3	Spanish (es) Nada surge de la nada		31
4	Ukrainian (uk) Нічого не виникає з нічого		17
5	Estonian (et) Ex nihilo nihil fit		12
6	Latin (la) Ex nihilo nihil fit		11
7	Japanese (ja) 無からは何も生じない		7
8	Portuguese (pt) Ex nihilo nihil fit		7
9	Persian (fa) هیچ چیز از هیچ حاصل نمی‌شود		5
10	Greek (el) Ουδέν εξ ουδενός		4

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Ex nihilo nihil fit
el	Greek Ουδέν εξ ουδενός
en	English Creatio ex materia
es	Spanish Nada surge de la nada
et	Estonian Ex nihilo nihil fit
fa	Persian هیچ چیز از هیچ حاصل نمی‌شود
fi	Finnish Ex nihilo nihil fit
id	Indonesian Ex nihilo nihil fit
it	Italian Ex nihilo nihil fit
ja	Japanese 無からは何も生じない
la	Latin Ex nihilo nihil fit
no	Norwegian Fra ingenting kommer ingenting
pt	Portuguese Ex nihilo nihil fit
simple	Simple English Creation ex materia
sk	Slovak Ex nihilo nihil fit
uk	Ukrainian Нічого не виникає з нічого
vi	Vietnamese Ex nihilo nihil fit

Best Rank

Finnish: #95951 05.2025

Global: #91010 04.2017

Best Rank

Finnish: #9459 10.2021

Global: #46828 05.2024

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