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 61^st most popular book in Hungarian Wikipedia. Article “Candide” in Hungarian Wikipedia has 60 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 49 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.16 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Hungarian Wikipedia:

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The 4257^th most popular in Hungarian Wikipedia.

The 61^st most popular in books in Hungarian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 189^th most popular in books.

In June 2026 the article “Candide” was edited by 1 authors in Hungarian Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Candide”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Hungarian Wikipedia and edited by 2111 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Candide is on the 61^st place in local ranking of books in Hungarian Wikipedia and on the 189^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 34 times in Hungarian Wikipedia and cited 2021 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Hungarian): #1103 in October 2016
• Global: #1639 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Hungarian): #570 in November 2020
• 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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