Astronaut

Quality:

Astronaut - person who commands, pilots, or serves as a crew member of a spacecraft. Article “Astronaut” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3700^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5758^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9373^rd most popular in all topics.

The 3329^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Astronaut”, its content was written by 33 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5758^th place) and edited by 4347 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3329^th place).

The article is cited 572 times in Simple English Wikipedia (3311^th place) and cited 38662 times in all languages (4364^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #268 in December 2008
• Global: #14 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #736 in June 2022
• Global: #2704 in March 2015

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	English (en) Astronaut		93.0446
2	Polish (pl) Astronauta		68.9496
3	German (de) Raumfahrer		65.2446
4	Slovak (sk) Kozmonaut		61.4638
5	French (fr) Astronaute		59.2831
6	Greek (el) Αστροναύτης		58.5894
7	Norwegian (no) Romfarer		57.1167
8	Swedish (sv) Rymdfarare		54.8662
9	Portuguese (pt) Astronauta		54.3947
10	Thai (th) นักบินอวกาศ		54.0738

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Astronaut		10 702 547
2	Spanish (es) Astronauta		2 456 654
3	Russian (ru) Космонавт		2 020 906
4	German (de) Raumfahrer		1 882 773
5	French (fr) Astronaute		1 752 578
6	Japanese (ja) 宇宙飛行士		1 236 363
7	Portuguese (pt) Astronauta		968 141
8	Persian (fa) فضانورد		739 533
9	Italian (it) Astronauta		646 260
10	Turkish (tr) Astronot		606 152

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) Astronaut		24 036
2	French (fr) Astronaute		3 277
3	Russian (ru) Космонавт		3 159
4	Japanese (ja) 宇宙飛行士		2 637
5	German (de) Raumfahrer		2 578
6	Spanish (es) Astronauta		2 115
7	Italian (it) Astronauta		1 855
8	Chinese (zh) 宇航员		1 479
9	Persian (fa) فضانورد		1 097
10	Polish (pl) Astronauta		907

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Astronaut		1 028
2	German (de) Raumfahrer		398
3	French (fr) Astronaute		355
4	Russian (ru) Космонавт		235
5	Dutch (nl) Ruimtevaarder		179
6	Italian (it) Astronauta		161
7	Spanish (es) Astronauta		158
8	Hebrew (he) טייס חלל		122
9	Portuguese (pt) Astronauta		111
10	Japanese (ja) 宇宙飛行士		98

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) Astronaut		2
2	Japanese (ja) 宇宙飛行士		2
3	Dutch (nl) Ruimtevaarder		2
4	Arabic (ar) رائد فضاء		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Kosmonavt		1
6	French (fr) Astronaute		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Űrhajós		1
8	Korean (ko) 우주비행사		1
9	Russian (ru) Космонавт		1
10	Belarusian (be) Касманаўт		0

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

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