20th century

Quality:

20th century - time period between January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000. Article “20th century” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1894^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1275^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2183^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1300^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 433^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4487^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “20th century”, its content was written by 74 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1275^th place) and edited by 5898 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1300^th place).

The article is cited 921 times in Simple English Wikipedia (604^th place) and cited 271604 times in all languages (395^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #15 in April 2018
• Global: #20 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #182 in December 2024
• Global: #1072 in April 2008

There are 54 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	Basque (eu) XX. mendea		87.9673
2	Romanian (ro) Secolul al XX-lea		86.8126
3	Hebrew (he) המאה ה-20		79.6395
4	Polish (pl) XX wiek		77.1349
5	English (en) 20th century		74.974
6	Czech (cs) 20. století		70.6287
7	Chinese (zh) 20世纪		67.3544
8	Finnish (fi) 1900-luku		64.1757
9	Spanish (es) Siglo XX		61.1624
10	Portuguese (pt) Século XX		59.3149

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Siglo XX		15 115 956
2	English (en) 20th century		10 730 507
3	French (fr) XXe siècle		6 837 686
4	Portuguese (pt) Século XX		4 909 570
5	Russian (ru) XX век		4 660 220
6	Italian (it) XX secolo		3 253 778
7	Polish (pl) XX wiek		2 276 218
8	German (de) 20. Jahrhundert		2 188 558
9	Japanese (ja) 20世紀		1 740 078
10	Dutch (nl) 20e eeuw		1 030 057

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) 20th century		11 622
2	Spanish (es) Siglo XX		10 773
3	Italian (it) XX secolo		8 925
4	Russian (ru) XX век		8 060
5	French (fr) XXe siècle		6 572
6	Portuguese (pt) Século XX		6 179
7	Japanese (ja) 20世紀		4 692
8	Polish (pl) XX wiek		3 246
9	German (de) 20. Jahrhundert		2 358
10	Chinese (zh) 20世纪		1 939

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 20th century		1 252
2	Spanish (es) Siglo XX		491
3	German (de) 20. Jahrhundert		411
4	French (fr) XXe siècle		357
5	Italian (it) XX secolo		262
6	Dutch (nl) 20e eeuw		219
7	Portuguese (pt) Século XX		197
8	Russian (ru) XX век		194
9	Hebrew (he) המאה ה-20		174
10	Polish (pl) XX wiek		154

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) 20th century		12
2	Spanish (es) Siglo XX		3
3	German (de) 20. Jahrhundert		2
4	Hungarian (hu) 20. század		2
5	Italian (it) XX secolo		2
6	Romanian (ro) Secolul al XX-lea		2
7	Bulgarian (bg) 20 век		1
8	Czech (cs) 20. století		1
9	Esperanto (eo) 20-a jarcento		1
10	Basque (eu) XX. mendea		1

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

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