Bastille

Quality:

Bastille - former fortress in Paris, France. Article “Bastille” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 7 sections.

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 7089^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4149^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9068^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7918^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Bastille”, its content was written by 40 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4149^th place) and edited by 2692 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9068^th place).

The article is cited 37 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5103 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #159 in March 2025
• Global: #1136 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #395 in March 2015
• Global: #2125 in July 2016

There are 49 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) Bastille		100
2	Spanish (es) Bastilla		96.3636
3	Malay (ms) Bastille		95
4	French (fr) Bastille		61.2893
5	Hungarian (hu) Bastille		46.6132
6	Dutch (nl) Bastille Saint-Antoine		40.0654
7	Finnish (fi) Bastilji		38.2531
8	Russian (ru) Бастилия		34.5648
9	German (de) Bastille		33.709
10	Simple English (simple) Bastille		30.7322

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bastille		6 907 798
2	French (fr) Bastille		2 300 083
3	German (de) Bastille		2 145 876
4	Spanish (es) Bastilla		1 787 492
5	Russian (ru) Бастилия		1 248 360
6	Portuguese (pt) Bastilha		1 011 696
7	Italian (it) Bastiglia		810 134
8	Polish (pl) Bastylia		757 517
9	Japanese (ja) バスティーユ牢獄		670 420
10	Chinese (zh) 巴士底狱		357 223

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) Bastille		15 941
2	French (fr) Bastille		4 289
3	German (de) Bastille		2 946
4	Russian (ru) Бастилия		2 613
5	Japanese (ja) バスティーユ牢獄		2 369
6	Spanish (es) Bastilla		1 702
7	Italian (it) Bastiglia		1 227
8	Polish (pl) Bastylia		1 183
9	Chinese (zh) 巴士底狱		1 075
10	Persian (fa) قلعه باستیل		734

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bastille		470
2	French (fr) Bastille		323
3	German (de) Bastille		295
4	Italian (it) Bastiglia		127
5	Russian (ru) Бастилия		108
6	Spanish (es) Bastilla		107
7	Swedish (sv) Bastiljen		88
8	Dutch (nl) Bastille Saint-Antoine		87
9	Danish (da) Bastillen		75
10	Portuguese (pt) Bastilha		75

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	Azerbaijani (az) Bastiliya qalası		4
2	French (fr) Bastille		3
3	German (de) Bastille		1
4	English (en) Bastille		1
5	Italian (it) Bastiglia		1
6	Japanese (ja) バスティーユ牢獄		1
7	Thai (th) บัสตีย์		1
8	Arabic (ar) سجن الباستيل		0
9	Belarusian (be) Бастылія		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Бастилия		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information