Candide

Quality:

Candide - 1759 philosophical tale by Voltaire. This book is the 189^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 3^rd most popular book in French Wikipedia. Article “Candide” in French Wikipedia has 62.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 97 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.28 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 639^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 1482^nd most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 3^rd most popular in books in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 189^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 8042^nd most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Candide”, its content was written by 452 registered users of French Wikipedia (1482^nd place) and edited by 2111 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Candide is on the 3^rd place in local ranking of books in French Wikipedia and on the 189^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 370 times in French Wikipedia and cited 2021 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #95 in October 2019
• Global: #1639 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #57 in October 2009
• Global: #5544 in October 2009

There are 37 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	English (en) Candide		94.8616
2	Serbian (sr) Кандид		78.8007
3	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		69.436
4	Bulgarian (bg) Кандид или оптимизмът		63.3722
5	French (fr) Candide		62.3795
6	Hungarian (hu) Candide		59.9957
7	Italian (it) Candido		55.9718
8	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		49.7454
9	Esperanto (eo) Kandid aŭ la optimismo		44.0964
10	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		35.8797

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Candide		7 817 106
2	French (fr) Candide		7 429 855
3	Italian (it) Candido		1 327 370
4	Spanish (es) Cándido		902 262
5	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		838 375
6	Russian (ru) Кандид, или Оптимизм		593 533
7	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		491 264
8	Swedish (sv) Candide		484 416
9	Portuguese (pt) Cândido, ou O Otimismo		481 280
10	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		363 968

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) Candide		18 084
2	French (fr) Candide		7 650
3	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		2 481
4	Italian (it) Candido		2 182
5	Spanish (es) Cándido		1 609
6	Russian (ru) Кандид, или Оптимизм		1 608
7	Japanese (ja) カンディード		1 019
8	Portuguese (pt) Cândido, ou O Otimismo		847
9	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		809
10	Swedish (sv) Candide		493

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Candide		566
2	French (fr) Candide		452
3	Italian (it) Candido		144
4	German (de) Candide oder der Optimismus		113
5	Dutch (nl) Candide		72
6	Spanish (es) Cándido		69
7	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		60
8	Swedish (sv) Candide		59
9	Hebrew (he) קנדיד		55
10	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		49

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) Candide		3
2	Arabic (ar) كانديد (رواية)		1
3	Catalan (ca) Càndid o l'optimisme		1
4	Spanish (es) Cándido		1
5	Persian (fa) کاندید (کتاب)		1
6	Hebrew (he) קנדיד		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Candide		1
8	Italian (it) Candido		1
9	Polish (pl) Kandyd (powiastka filozoficzna)		1
10	Turkish (tr) Candide Ya Da İyimserlik		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information