古代

Quality:

Ancient history - human history from the earliest records to the end of the classical periods. Article “古代” in Japanese Wikipedia has 14.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.65 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3674^th most popular in all topics.

The 4031^st most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “古代”, its content was written by 54 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 3963 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4031^st place).

The article is cited 2988 times in Japanese Wikipedia (2724^th place) and cited 50551 times in all languages (3234^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #7001 in September 2010
• Global: #596 in October 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #22979 in April 2008
• Global: #979 in September 2009

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, 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) Ancient history		100
2	Slovenian (sl) Stari vek		95.5556
3	Portuguese (pt) Idade Antiga		93.506
4	Persian (fa) تاریخ باستان		92.4764
5	French (fr) Antiquité		91.4317
6	Arabic (ar) تاريخ قديم		88.427
7	Tamil (ta) பண்டைய வரலாறு		83.75
8	Polish (pl) Starożytność		75.5115
9	Catalan (ca) Edat antiga		68.6407
10	Spanish (es) Edad Antigua		67.3574

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Edad Antigua		12 162 926
2	English (en) Ancient history		10 287 754
3	French (fr) Antiquité		5 247 020
4	Portuguese (pt) Idade Antiga		4 332 033
5	Polish (pl) Starożytność		3 040 060
6	Russian (ru) Древний мир		2 427 449
7	Turkish (tr) Antik Çağ		1 075 824
8	German (de) Altertum		1 056 276
9	Japanese (ja) 古代		1 019 202
10	Czech (cs) Starověk		1 001 240

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) Ancient history		24 304
2	French (fr) Antiquité		7 992
3	Spanish (es) Edad Antigua		7 093
4	Russian (ru) Древний мир		3 736
5	Portuguese (pt) Idade Antiga		3 070
6	Japanese (ja) 古代		2 873
7	Persian (fa) تاریخ باستان		2 698
8	Polish (pl) Starożytność		2 016
9	Turkish (tr) Antik Çağ		1 533
10	German (de) Altertum		1 512

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ancient history		928
2	French (fr) Antiquité		357
3	Spanish (es) Edad Antigua		310
4	Portuguese (pt) Idade Antiga		228
5	German (de) Altertum		207
6	Italian (it) Età antica		166
7	Polish (pl) Starożytność		162
8	Dutch (nl) Oudheid		135
9	Russian (ru) Древний мир		127
10	Hebrew (he) העת העתיקה		108

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) Ancient history		5
2	Arabic (ar) تاريخ قديم		2
3	French (fr) Antiquité		2
4	Basque (eu) Antzinaroa		1
5	Galician (gl) Idade Antiga		1
6	Lithuanian (lt) Senieji laikai		1
7	Romanian (ro) Antichitatea		1
8	Russian (ru) Древний мир		1
9	Slovenian (sl) Stari vek		1
10	Turkish (tr) Antik Çağ		1

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

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