Michel Foucault

Quality:

Michel Foucault - French philosopher (1926–1984). This person is the 1130^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Michel Foucault” in Italian Wikipedia has 32.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.7 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 7202^nd most popular in Italian Wikipedia.

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The 4992^nd most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3672^nd most popular in all topics.

The 1924^th most popular in AI.

The 1130^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

it

The 6698^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5648^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Michel Foucault” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Michel Foucault”, its content was written by 206 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (4992^nd place) and edited by 5090 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1924^th place).

Michel Foucault is on the 1130^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 435 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 14326 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #96 in June 2004
• Global: #250 in December 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #2800 in June 2008
• Global: #2110 in March 2021

There are 51 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	German (de) Michel Foucault		97.1429
2	Russian (ru) Фуко, Мишель		96.2212
3	English (en) Michel Foucault		95.1838
4	Dutch (nl) Michel Foucault		80.1875
5	Chinese (zh) 米歇尔·福柯		74.8499
6	Spanish (es) Michel Foucault		72.8776
7	Swedish (sv) Michel Foucault		72.784
8	Hebrew (he) מישל פוקו		64.828
9	French (fr) Michel Foucault		63.6914
10	Bulgarian (bg) Мишел Фуко		56.4407

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Michel Foucault		17 573 766
2	Spanish (es) Michel Foucault		7 104 137
3	French (fr) Michel Foucault		3 840 839
4	Portuguese (pt) Michel Foucault		3 750 261
5	German (de) Michel Foucault		3 068 884
6	Russian (ru) Фуко, Мишель		1 854 848
7	Italian (it) Michel Foucault		1 610 797
8	Japanese (ja) ミシェル・フーコー		1 597 005
9	Chinese (zh) 米歇尔·福柯		1 032 881
10	Polish (pl) Michel Foucault		758 284

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) Michel Foucault		63 647
2	French (fr) Michel Foucault		17 555
3	Spanish (es) Michel Foucault		16 326
4	German (de) Michel Foucault		9 467
5	Japanese (ja) ミシェル・フーコー		8 131
6	Portuguese (pt) Michel Foucault		7 829
7	Russian (ru) Фуко, Мишель		7 621
8	Italian (it) Michel Foucault		7 004
9	Chinese (zh) 米歇尔·福柯		5 897
10	Turkish (tr) Michel Foucault		2 567

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Michel Foucault		1 140
2	French (fr) Michel Foucault		497
3	German (de) Michel Foucault		460
4	Spanish (es) Michel Foucault		320
5	Italian (it) Michel Foucault		206
6	Hebrew (he) מישל פוקו		186
7	Portuguese (pt) Michel Foucault		168
8	Russian (ru) Фуко, Мишель		154
9	Dutch (nl) Michel Foucault		134
10	Japanese (ja) ミシェル・フーコー		131

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) Michel Foucault		5
2	Russian (ru) Фуко, Мишель		3
3	Finnish (fi) Michel Foucault		2
4	French (fr) Michel Foucault		2
5	German (de) Michel Foucault		1
6	Basque (eu) Michel Foucault		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Michel Foucault		1
8	Indonesian (id) Michel Foucault		1
9	Italian (it) Michel Foucault		1
10	Dutch (nl) Michel Foucault		1

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

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