Busuioc

Quality:

Basil - species of plant, herb. This taxon is the 175^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 114^th most popular taxon in Romanian Wikipedia. Article “Busuioc” in Romanian Wikipedia has 27.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.45 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Romanian Wikipedia:

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The 3154^th most popular in Romanian Wikipedia.

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The 4085^th most editable in Romanian Wikipedia.

The 114^th most popular in taxon in Romanian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8110^th most popular in all topics.

The 7693^rd most popular in AI.

The 175^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Romanian Wikipedia:

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The 3725^th most popular in Romanian Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Busuioc”, its content was written by 33 registered users of Romanian Wikipedia (4085^th place) and edited by 2877 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7693^rd place).

Basil is on the 114^th place in local ranking of taxon in Romanian Wikipedia and on the 175^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 264 times in Romanian Wikipedia and cited 6865 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Romanian): #278 in January 2010
• Global: #50 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Romanian): #728 in July 2013
• Global: #4514 in July 2013

There are 52 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	Greek (el) Βασιλικός		90.6758
2	Arabic (ar) ريحان		89.7371
3	English (en) Basil		72.7604
4	German (de) Basilikum		68.6697
5	Japanese (ja) バジル		67.8464
6	Vietnamese (vi) Húng tây		64.3913
7	Swedish (sv) Basilika (växt)		64.3036
8	Turkish (tr) Fesleğen		46.9546
9	Chinese (zh) 羅勒		45.7417
10	French (fr) Basilic (plante)		45.0706

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basil		11 132 168
2	Spanish (es) Ocimum basilicum		3 592 033
3	Chinese (zh) 羅勒		2 032 316
4	German (de) Basilikum		1 988 445
5	French (fr) Basilic (plante)		1 899 115
6	Japanese (ja) バジル		1 573 352
7	Arabic (ar) ريحان		1 236 127
8	Italian (it) Ocimum basilicum		1 033 475
9	Russian (ru) Базилик душистый		828 283
10	Portuguese (pt) Manjericão-de-folha-larga		651 837

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) Basil		32 739
2	Spanish (es) Ocimum basilicum		10 962
3	Chinese (zh) 羅勒		8 400
4	German (de) Basilikum		6 825
5	French (fr) Basilic (plante)		6 705
6	Japanese (ja) バジル		5 741
7	Italian (it) Ocimum basilicum		3 915
8	Arabic (ar) ريحان		3 257
9	Portuguese (pt) Manjericão-de-folha-larga		3 136
10	Turkish (tr) Fesleğen		2 939

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basil		672
2	German (de) Basilikum		270
3	French (fr) Basilic (plante)		191
4	Italian (it) Ocimum basilicum		144
5	Spanish (es) Ocimum basilicum		107
6	Chinese (zh) 羅勒		94
7	Japanese (ja) バジル		81
8	Hungarian (hu) Bazsalikom		78
9	Arabic (ar) ريحان		76
10	Hebrew (he) ריחן מצוי		63

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) Basil		5
2	Chinese (zh) 羅勒		2
3	French (fr) Basilic (plante)		1
4	Indonesian (id) Selasih		1
5	Serbian (sr) Босиљак		1
6	Arabic (ar) ريحان		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Adi reyhan		0
8	Belarusian (be) Базілік		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Обикновен босилек		0
10	Catalan (ca) Alfàbrega		0

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

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