42 (answer)

Quality:

42 - "Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Article “42 (answer)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “42 (answer)” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6979^th place) and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “42 (answer)”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1699 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 461 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #229 in October 2018
• Global: #3495 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #40 in November 2019
• Global: #4914 in September 2011

There are 19 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	French (fr) La grande question sur la vie, l'Univers et le reste		45.3777
2	Hungarian (hu) 42 (Galaxis útikalauz stopposoknak)		35.0433
3	Japanese (ja) 生命、宇宙、そして万物についての究極の疑問の答え		32.52
4	Spanish (es) El sentido de la vida, el universo y todo lo demás		26.8888
5	Polish (pl) Wielkie pytanie o życie, wszechświat i całą resztę		25.5136
6	Czech (cs) 42 (odpověď)		25.1238
7	Simple English (simple) 42 (answer)		24.7167
8	German (de) 42 (Antwort)		21.8471
9	Italian (it) Risposta alla domanda fondamentale sulla vita, l'universo e tutto quanto		21.3279
10	Russian (ru) Ответ на главный вопрос жизни, вселенной и всего такого		18.4556

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) 42 (Antwort)		5 551 295
2	Russian (ru) Ответ на главный вопрос жизни, вселенной и всего такого		2 841 084
3	French (fr) La grande question sur la vie, l'Univers et le reste		2 717 535
4	Japanese (ja) 生命、宇宙、そして万物についての究極の疑問の答え		2 620 848
5	Spanish (es) El sentido de la vida, el universo y todo lo demás		2 306 406
6	Italian (it) Risposta alla domanda fondamentale sulla vita, l'universo e tutto quanto		1 313 221
7	Polish (pl) Wielkie pytanie o życie, wszechświat i całą resztę		563 832
8	Simple English (simple) 42 (answer)		558 027
9	Dutch (nl) Het antwoord op de ultieme vraag over het Leven, het Universum, en Alles		414 772
10	Czech (cs) 42 (odpověď)		396 250

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Ответ на главный вопрос жизни, вселенной и всего такого		9 657
2	German (de) 42 (Antwort)		9 480
3	Japanese (ja) 生命、宇宙、そして万物についての究極の疑問の答え		7 456
4	French (fr) La grande question sur la vie, l'Univers et le reste		5 493
5	Simple English (simple) 42 (answer)		4 701
6	Italian (it) Risposta alla domanda fondamentale sulla vita, l'universo e tutto quanto		2 611
7	Dutch (nl) Het antwoord op de ultieme vraag over het Leven, het Universum, en Alles		1 807
8	Spanish (es) El sentido de la vida, el universo y todo lo demás		1 786
9	Chinese (zh) 生命、宇宙以及任何事情的終極答案		1 547
10	Czech (cs) 42 (odpověď)		1 151

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) 42 (Antwort)		434
2	French (fr) La grande question sur la vie, l'Univers et le reste		302
3	Russian (ru) Ответ на главный вопрос жизни, вселенной и всего такого		173
4	Hebrew (he) התשובה לחיים, היקום וכל השאר		136
5	Italian (it) Risposta alla domanda fondamentale sulla vita, l'universo e tutto quanto		127
6	Spanish (es) El sentido de la vida, el universo y todo lo demás		95
7	Japanese (ja) 生命、宇宙、そして万物についての究極の疑問の答え		92
8	Dutch (nl) Het antwoord op de ultieme vraag over het Leven, het Universum, en Alles		76
9	Polish (pl) Wielkie pytanie o życie, wszechświat i całą resztę		55
10	Czech (cs) 42 (odpověď)		51

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	Czech (cs) 42 (odpověď)		2
2	Simple English (simple) 42 (answer)		1
3	Catalan (ca) La Resposta a la Pregunta Definitiva sobre la Vida, l'Univers i Tot Plegat		0
4	German (de) 42 (Antwort)		0
5	Esperanto (eo) La respondo pri la vivo, la universo kaj ĉio		0
6	Spanish (es) El sentido de la vida, el universo y todo lo demás		0
7	Finnish (fi) Vastaus elämään, maailmankaikkeuteen ja kaikkeen muuhun sellaiseen		0
8	French (fr) La grande question sur la vie, l'Univers et le reste		0
9	Hebrew (he) התשובה לחיים, היקום וכל השאר		0
10	Hungarian (hu) 42 (Galaxis útikalauz stopposoknak)		0

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

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