Présent historique

Historical present - linguistic device. Article “Présent historique” in French Wikipedia has 24.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 24 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Présent historique”, its content was written by 29 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 226 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 85 times in French Wikipedia and cited 306 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #7943 in November 2024
• Global: #50091 in February 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #35980 in January 2020
• Global: #192544 in February 2015

There are 13 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	Korean (ko) 역사적 현재		29.1274
2	English (en) Historical present		27.9482
3	French (fr) Présent historique		24.3801
4	German (de) Historisches Präsens		23.0346
5	Vietnamese (vi) Thì hiện tại lịch sử		15.5317
6	Japanese (ja) 史的現在		11.9461
7	Russian (ru) Настоящее историческое		9.8433
8	Chinese (zh) 历史现在时		9.4256
9	Swedish (sv) Historiskt presens		3.9277
10	Dutch (nl) Praesens historicum		3.0999

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Présent historique" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Historical present		423 887
2	Spanish (es) Presente histórico		230 007
3	French (fr) Présent historique		202 383
4	German (de) Historisches Präsens		167 869
5	Swedish (sv) Historiskt presens		36 792
6	Norwegian (no) Historisk presens		26 440
7	Japanese (ja) 史的現在		25 478
8	Dutch (nl) Praesens historicum		22 044
9	Russian (ru) Настоящее историческое		12 283
10	Chinese (zh) 历史现在时		8 124

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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 "Présent historique" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Historical present		970
2	French (fr) Présent historique		300
3	German (de) Historisches Präsens		256
4	Japanese (ja) 史的現在		91
5	Spanish (es) Presente histórico		68
6	Russian (ru) Настоящее историческое		66
7	Dutch (nl) Praesens historicum		48
8	Swedish (sv) Historiskt presens		44
9	Norwegian (no) Historisk presens		42
10	Chinese (zh) 历史现在时		38

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

Language versions of the article "Présent historique" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Historical present		59
2	German (de) Historisches Präsens		53
3	French (fr) Présent historique		29
4	Swedish (sv) Historiskt presens		21
5	Spanish (es) Presente histórico		20
6	Dutch (nl) Praesens historicum		16
7	Norwegian (no) Historisk presens		9
8	Russian (ru) Настоящее историческое		7
9	Portuguese (pt) Presente histórico		4
10	Japanese (ja) 史的現在		3

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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 "Présent historique" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Historisches Präsens		0
2	English (en) Historical present		0
3	Spanish (es) Presente histórico		0
4	French (fr) Présent historique		0
5	Japanese (ja) 史的現在		0
6	Korean (ko) 역사적 현재		0
7	Dutch (nl) Praesens historicum		0
8	Norwegian (no) Historisk presens		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Presente histórico		0
10	Russian (ru) Настоящее историческое		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 "Présent historique" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Dutch (nl) Praesens historicum		134
2	French (fr) Présent historique		85
3	German (de) Historisches Präsens		34
4	English (en) Historical present		31
5	Spanish (es) Presente histórico		8
6	Russian (ru) Настоящее историческое		3
7	Chinese (zh) 历史现在时		3
8	Japanese (ja) 史的現在		2
9	Portuguese (pt) Presente histórico		2
10	Swedish (sv) Historiskt presens		2

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#	Language	Value
de	German Historisches Präsens
en	English Historical present
es	Spanish Presente histórico
fr	French Présent historique
ja	Japanese 史的現在
ko	Korean 역사적 현재
nl	Dutch Praesens historicum
no	Norwegian Historisk presens
pt	Portuguese Presente histórico
ru	Russian Настоящее историческое
sv	Swedish Historiskt presens
vi	Vietnamese Thì hiện tại lịch sử
zh	Chinese 历史现在时

Best Rank

French: #35980 01.2020

Global: #192544 02.2015

Best Rank

French: #7943 11.2024

Global: #50091 02.2015

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