Voltaire

Quality:

Voltaire - French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778). This person is the 496^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 15^th most popular person in French Wikipedia. Article “Voltaire” in French Wikipedia has 80.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 229 references and 49 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.94 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 40^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 69^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 15^th most popular in people in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1473^rd most popular in all topics.

The 653^rd most popular in AI.

The 496^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 673^rd most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1489^th most editable in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4910^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4783^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Voltaire” was edited by 7 authors in French Wikipedia (1489^th place) and written by 30 authors in all languages (4783^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Voltaire”, its content was written by 986 registered users of French Wikipedia (69^th place) and edited by 7375 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (653^rd place).

Voltaire is on the 15^th place in local ranking of people in French Wikipedia and on the 496^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 4386 times in French Wikipedia (2959^th place) and cited 28413 times in all languages (5808^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #11 in November 2006
• Global: #231 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #2 in February 2021
• Global: #311 in February 2021

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	English (en) Voltaire		100
2	Indonesian (id) Voltaire		100
3	Italian (it) Voltaire		98.5041
4	Esperanto (eo) Voltaire		96.4469
5	German (de) Voltaire		92.2854
6	Catalan (ca) Voltaire		88.2266
7	Dutch (nl) Voltaire		82.5082
8	Norwegian (no) Voltaire		81.0767
9	French (fr) Voltaire		80.4546
10	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		73.3245

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Voltaire		22 168 442
2	French (fr) Voltaire		18 401 220
3	Spanish (es) Voltaire		10 252 681
4	Russian (ru) Вольтер		3 553 599
5	German (de) Voltaire		3 366 632
6	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		3 314 073
7	Italian (it) Voltaire		2 507 362
8	Polish (pl) Voltaire		1 364 974
9	Japanese (ja) ヴォルテール		1 058 139
10	Swedish (sv) Voltaire		1 046 409

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) Voltaire		66 532
2	French (fr) Voltaire		36 823
3	Spanish (es) Voltaire		13 544
4	German (de) Voltaire		9 778
5	Russian (ru) Вольтер		8 540
6	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		5 903
7	Italian (it) Voltaire		5 598
8	Japanese (ja) ヴォルテール		4 328
9	Chinese (zh) 伏爾泰		3 560
10	Polish (pl) Voltaire		2 476

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Voltaire		1 761
2	French (fr) Voltaire		986
3	German (de) Voltaire		550
4	Spanish (es) Voltaire		392
5	Italian (it) Voltaire		360
6	Russian (ru) Вольтер		276
7	Dutch (nl) Voltaire		225
8	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		221
9	Hebrew (he) וולטר		168
10	Swedish (sv) Voltaire		164

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	French (fr) Voltaire		7
2	German (de) Voltaire		6
3	English (en) Voltaire		5
4	Spanish (es) Voltaire		5
5	Hebrew (he) וולטר		2
6	Turkish (tr) Voltaire		2
7	Croatian (hr) Voltaire		1
8	Italian (it) Voltaire		1
9	Serbian (sr) Волтер		1
10	Arabic (ar) فولتير		0

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information