California Gold Rush

Quality:

California Gold Rush - gold rush from C.E.1848 until 1855 in California. This event is the 371^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 164^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “California Gold Rush” in Simple English Wikipedia has 59.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 33 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.14 points.

This article has the best quality in Dutch 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 9493^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1775^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 164^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 371^st most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3311^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9913^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “California Gold Rush”, its content was written by 61 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1775^th place) and edited by 2373 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

California Gold Rush is on the 164^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 371^st place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 38 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8486 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #52 in November 2006
• Global: #570 in February 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1801 in April 2008
• Global: #6221 in April 2008

There are 40 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	Dutch (nl) Californische goldrush		100
2	English (en) California gold rush		96.4835
3	Catalan (ca) Febre de l'or de Califòrnia		94.9119
4	Swedish (sv) Guldrushen i Kalifornien		93.5088
5	Vietnamese (vi) Cơn sốt vàng California		90.4134
6	Danish (da) Guldfeberen i Californien		87.55
7	French (fr) Ruée vers l'or en Californie		86.6088
8	Hungarian (hu) Kaliforniai aranyláz		84.2268
9	Spanish (es) Fiebre del oro de California		82.0983
10	Portuguese (pt) Corrida do ouro na Califórnia		80.4959

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) California gold rush		13 109 607
2	Spanish (es) Fiebre del oro de California		965 223
3	German (de) Kalifornischer Goldrausch		714 241
4	French (fr) Ruée vers l'or en Californie		608 219
5	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア・ゴールドラッシュ		449 717
6	Russian (ru) Калифорнийская золотая лихорадка		414 927
7	Portuguese (pt) Corrida do ouro na Califórnia		298 228
8	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亞淘金潮		161 705
9	Polish (pl) Kalifornijska gorączka złota		158 779
10	Italian (it) Corsa all'oro californiana		137 703

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 gold rush		31 204
2	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア・ゴールドラッシュ		2 309
3	Spanish (es) Fiebre del oro de California		2 078
4	German (de) Kalifornischer Goldrausch		1 939
5	Russian (ru) Калифорнийская золотая лихорадка		1 503
6	Simple English (simple) California Gold Rush		1 456
7	French (fr) Ruée vers l'or en Californie		1 402
8	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亞淘金潮		951
9	Italian (it) Corsa all'oro californiana		536
10	Portuguese (pt) Corrida do ouro na Califórnia		440

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) California gold rush		1 103
2	German (de) Kalifornischer Goldrausch		171
3	French (fr) Ruée vers l'or en Californie		164
4	Spanish (es) Fiebre del oro de California		81
5	Russian (ru) Калифорнийская золотая лихорадка		70
6	Italian (it) Corsa all'oro californiana		61
7	Simple English (simple) California Gold Rush		61
8	Hebrew (he) הבהלה לזהב (קליפורניה)		56
9	Dutch (nl) Californische goldrush		52
10	Portuguese (pt) Corrida do ouro na Califórnia		52

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	Danish (da) Guldfeberen i Californien		3
2	Catalan (ca) Febre de l'or de Califòrnia		2
3	English (en) California gold rush		2
4	Hungarian (hu) Kaliforniai aranyláz		2
5	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア・ゴールドラッシュ		2
6	German (de) Kalifornischer Goldrausch		1
7	Spanish (es) Fiebre del oro de California		1
8	French (fr) Ruée vers l'or en Californie		1
9	Hebrew (he) הבהלה לזהב (קליפורניה)		1
10	Hindi (hi) कैलिफ़ोर्निया गोल्ड रश		1

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

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