California

Quality:

California - state of the United States of America. Article “California” in Simple English Wikipedia has 71.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 28 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish 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 385^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 154^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 281^st most popular in all topics.

The 282^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 538^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1029^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2211^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “California”, its content was written by 185 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (154^th place) and edited by 9624 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (282^nd place).

The article is cited 5458 times in Simple English Wikipedia (55^th place) and cited 645952 times in all languages (148^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #19 in July 2021
• Global: #87 in July 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #101 in November 2014
• Global: #191 in March 2023

There are 55 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	Spanish (es) California		92.9964
2	German (de) Kalifornien		90.0668
3	English (en) California		88.72
4	Indonesian (id) California		87.164
5	French (fr) Californie		87.1162
6	Hebrew (he) קליפורניה		81.6097
7	Slovak (sk) Kalifornia		81.4433
8	Italian (it) California		80.8633
9	Catalan (ca) Califòrnia		80.5995
10	Norwegian (no) California		78.5218

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) California		79 494 020
2	Spanish (es) California		11 702 595
3	German (de) Kalifornien		11 246 180
4	Russian (ru) Калифорния		8 487 590
5	French (fr) Californie		7 162 833
6	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア州		6 222 473
7	Portuguese (pt) Califórnia		4 881 387
8	Italian (it) California		4 632 098
9	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亚州		4 219 348
10	Polish (pl) Kalifornia		3 143 778

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) California		216 788
2	Spanish (es) California		23 597
3	German (de) Kalifornien		22 637
4	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア州		22 322
5	Russian (ru) Калифорния		20 909
6	French (fr) Californie		14 002
7	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亚州		11 910
8	Italian (it) California		9 298
9	Persian (fa) کالیفرنیا		8 101
10	Polish (pl) Kalifornia		7 996

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) California		3 135
2	German (de) Kalifornien		652
3	French (fr) Californie		534
4	Spanish (es) California		431
5	Italian (it) California		382
6	Russian (ru) Калифорния		310
7	Dutch (nl) Californië		297
8	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亚州		252
9	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア州		244
10	Hebrew (he) קליפורניה		224

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) California		10
2	Spanish (es) California		9
3	Ukrainian (uk) Каліфорнія		4
4	Italian (it) California		3
5	Russian (ru) Калифорния		3
6	Azerbaijani (az) Kaliforniya		2
7	Hebrew (he) קליפורניה		2
8	Arabic (ar) كاليفورنيا		1
9	German (de) Kalifornien		1
10	Estonian (et) California		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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