Busuioc

Quality:

Basil - species of plant, herb. This taxon is the 182^nd 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 27.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 14 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.43 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 3212^th most popular in Romanian Wikipedia.

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The 3918^th most editable in Romanian Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 8343^rd most popular in all topics.

The 7853^rd most popular in AI.

The 182^nd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Romanian Wikipedia:

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The 4080^th most popular in Romanian Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 4946^th most editable in Romanian Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Busuioc” was edited by 1 authors in Romanian Wikipedia (4946^th place) and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Busuioc”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Romanian Wikipedia (3918^th place) and edited by 2892 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7853^rd place).

Basil is on the 114^th place in local ranking of taxon in Romanian Wikipedia and on the 182^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 261 times in Romanian Wikipedia and cited 6907 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Romanian): #278 in January 2010
• Global: #49 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Romanian): #730 in July 2013
• Global: #4652 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, 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	Greek (el) Βασιλικός		91.5365
2	Arabic (ar) ريحان		89.4218
3	English (en) Basil		73.1695
4	German (de) Basilikum		69.601
5	Japanese (ja) バジル		67.451
6	Vietnamese (vi) Húng tây		64.1419
7	Swedish (sv) Basilika (växt)		63.525
8	Turkish (tr) Fesleğen		47.1009
9	Italian (it) Ocimum basilicum		46.9033
10	Chinese (zh) 羅勒		45.7087

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basil		11 351 908
2	Spanish (es) Ocimum basilicum		3 681 440
3	Chinese (zh) 羅勒		2 110 046
4	German (de) Basilikum		2 048 604
5	French (fr) Basilic (plante)		1 956 577
6	Japanese (ja) バジル		1 624 696
7	Arabic (ar) ريحان		1 270 916
8	Italian (it) Ocimum basilicum		1 067 135
9	Russian (ru) Базилик душистый		869 478
10	Portuguese (pt) Manjericão-de-folha-larga		679 284

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) Basil		25 279
2	Spanish (es) Ocimum basilicum		6 970
3	German (de) Basilikum		6 172
4	Chinese (zh) 羅勒		6 038
5	French (fr) Basilic (plante)		5 971
6	Japanese (ja) バジル		5 140
7	Italian (it) Ocimum basilicum		3 257
8	Turkish (tr) Fesleğen		3 041
9	Portuguese (pt) Manjericão-de-folha-larga		2 079
10	Russian (ru) Базилик душистый		1 746

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basil		688
2	German (de) Basilikum		276
3	French (fr) Basilic (plante)		195
4	Italian (it) Ocimum basilicum		148
5	Spanish (es) Ocimum basilicum		110
6	Chinese (zh) 羅勒		97
7	Japanese (ja) バジル		82
8	Hungarian (hu) Bazsalikom		79
9	Arabic (ar) ريحان		77
10	Hebrew (he) ריחן מצוי		64

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	German (de) Basilikum		5
2	English (en) Basil		4
3	Hebrew (he) ריחן מצוי		2
4	Urdu (ur) تلسی نازبو		2
5	Arabic (ar) ريحان		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Adi reyhan		1
7	Spanish (es) Ocimum basilicum		1
8	Basque (eu) Albaka		1
9	Armenian (hy) Ռեհան բուրավետ		1
10	Italian (it) Ocimum basilicum		1

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

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