California Gold Rush

Quality:

California Gold Rush - gold rush from C.E.1848 until 1855 in California. This event is the 380^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 174^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “California Gold Rush” in Simple English Wikipedia has 45.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 20 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.41 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 1737^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 174^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 380^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6722^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “California Gold Rush”, its content was written by 64 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1737^th place) and edited by 2424 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

California Gold Rush is on the 174^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 380^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 39 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9192 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #53 in November 2006
• Global: #570 in February 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1810 in April 2008
• Global: #6250 in April 2008

There are 41 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	Dutch (nl) Californische goldrush		100
2	English (en) California gold rush		97.0688
3	Catalan (ca) Febre de l'or de Califòrnia		94.9558
4	Swedish (sv) Guldrushen i Kalifornien		92.6667
5	Vietnamese (vi) Cơn sốt vàng California		90.173
6	Serbian (sr) Калифорнијска златна грозница		89.2562
7	Danish (da) Guldfeberen i Californien		87.6017
8	French (fr) Ruée vers l'or en Californie		86.3908
9	Hungarian (hu) Kaliforniai aranyláz		84.2561
10	Spanish (es) Fiebre del oro de California		80.7811

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) California gold rush		13 534 739
2	Spanish (es) Fiebre del oro de California		988 748
3	German (de) Kalifornischer Goldrausch		735 875
4	French (fr) Ruée vers l'or en Californie		630 151
5	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア・ゴールドラッシュ		477 682
6	Russian (ru) Калифорнийская золотая лихорадка		444 547
7	Portuguese (pt) Corrida do ouro na Califórnia		303 299
8	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亞淘金潮		171 629
9	Polish (pl) Kalifornijska gorączka złota		165 385
10	Italian (it) Corsa all'oro californiana		144 000

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		25 005
2	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア・ゴールドラッシュ		1 995
3	German (de) Kalifornischer Goldrausch		1 595
4	Spanish (es) Fiebre del oro de California		1 560
5	French (fr) Ruée vers l'or en Californie		1 275
6	Russian (ru) Калифорнийская золотая лихорадка		1 046
7	Chinese (zh) 加利福尼亞淘金潮		806
8	Polish (pl) Kalifornijska gorączka złota		510
9	Italian (it) Corsa all'oro californiana		482
10	Portuguese (pt) Corrida do ouro na Califórnia		357

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		1 126
2	German (de) Kalifornischer Goldrausch		174
3	French (fr) Ruée vers l'or en Californie		168
4	Spanish (es) Fiebre del oro de California		82
5	Russian (ru) Калифорнийская золотая лихорадка		71
6	Italian (it) Corsa all'oro californiana		64
7	Simple English (simple) California Gold Rush		64
8	Hebrew (he) הבהלה לזהב (קליפורניה)		58
9	Portuguese (pt) Corrida do ouro na Califórnia		53
10	Dutch (nl) Californische goldrush		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	German (de) Kalifornischer Goldrausch		2
2	English (en) California gold rush		2
3	French (fr) Ruée vers l'or en Californie		2
4	Japanese (ja) カリフォルニア・ゴールドラッシュ		2
5	Romanian (ro) Goana după aur din California		2
6	Russian (ru) Калифорнийская золотая лихорадка		2
7	Catalan (ca) Febre de l'or de Califòrnia		1
8	Spanish (es) Fiebre del oro de California		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Kaliforniai aranyláz		1
10	Korean (ko) 캘리포니아 골드 러시		1

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

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