California

Quality:

California - state of the United States of America. Article “California” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 78.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 71 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.15 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

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The 311^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia.

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The 229^th most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 279^th most popular in all topics.

The 283^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

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The 905^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1137^th most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 554^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 653^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “California” was edited by 2 authors in Norwegian Wikipedia (1137^th place) and written by 76 authors in all languages (653^rd place).

Since the creation of article “California”, its content was written by 199 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia (229^th place) and edited by 9497 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (283^rd place).

The article is cited 6890 times in Norwegian Wikipedia (187^th place) and cited 626841 times in all languages (144^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #19 in May 2003
• Global: #88 in July 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #98 in September 2010
• Global: #190 in March 2023

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	Spanish (es) California		93.0385
2	Indonesian (id) California		89.5774
3	German (de) Kalifornien		89.2968
4	English (en) California		88.668
5	French (fr) Californie		87.1826
6	Slovak (sk) Kalifornia		83.238
7	Hebrew (he) קליפורניה		83.0002
8	Italian (it) California		81.1571
9	Catalan (ca) Califòrnia		80.4537
10	Norwegian (no) California		78.8768

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) California		76 545 735
2	Spanish (es) California		11 364 198
3	German (de) Kalifornien		10 927 597
4	Russian (ru) Калифорния		7 903 860
5	French (fr) Californie		6 970 205
6	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア州		5 947 493
7	Portuguese (pt) Califórnia		4 762 602
8	Italian (it) California		4 521 159
9	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亚州		3 990 484
10	Polish (pl) Kalifornia		3 032 686

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) California		292 569
2	Russian (ru) Калифорния		42 079
3	Spanish (es) California		38 370
4	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亚州		32 591
5	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア州		32 084
6	German (de) Kalifornien		31 776
7	French (fr) Californie		20 793
8	Italian (it) California		14 442
9	Arabic (ar) كاليفورنيا		13 235
10	Portuguese (pt) Califórnia		12 004

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) California		3 063
2	German (de) Kalifornien		638
3	French (fr) Californie		527
4	Spanish (es) California		413
5	Italian (it) California		374
6	Russian (ru) Калифорния		301
7	Dutch (nl) Californië		290
8	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亚州		242
9	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア州		237
10	Hebrew (he) קליפורניה		221

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) California		10
2	French (fr) Californie		10
3	German (de) Kalifornien		7
4	Persian (fa) کالیفرنیا		7
5	Spanish (es) California		4
6	Italian (it) California		4
7	Thai (th) รัฐแคลิฟอร์เนีย		4
8	Indonesian (id) California		3
9	Korean (ko) 캘리포니아주		3
10	Russian (ru) Калифорния		3

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