Carl Linnaeus

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Carl Linnaeus - Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778). This person is the 1433^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 179^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Carl Linnaeus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 31.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan 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 1605^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 504^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 179^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4816^th most popular in all topics.

The 1366^th most popular in AI.

The 1433^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 795^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7765^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Carl Linnaeus”, its content was written by 113 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (504^th place) and edited by 5727 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1366^th place).

Carl Linnaeus is on the 179^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1433^rd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 907 times in Simple English Wikipedia (567^th place) and cited 209704 times in all languages (522^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4 in March 2012
• Global: #79 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #92 in September 2011
• Global: #1749 in September 2010

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, 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	Catalan (ca) Carl von Linné		100
2	Galician (gl) Carl von Linné		100
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Carl von Linné		100
4	Swedish (sv) Carl von Linné		99.0652
5	English (en) Carl Linnaeus		97.6435
6	Russian (ru) Линней, Карл		96.4963
7	Esperanto (eo) Karolo Lineo		95.2381
8	Spanish (es) Carlos Linneo		87.8705
9	German (de) Carl von Linné		81.1081
10	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·林奈		76.2259

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Carl Linnaeus		13 618 099
2	Spanish (es) Carlos Linneo		7 261 789
3	Russian (ru) Линней, Карл		2 776 587
4	German (de) Carl von Linné		2 185 596
5	Swedish (sv) Carl von Linné		1 928 623
6	Italian (it) Linneo		1 733 890
7	Portuguese (pt) Lineu		1 345 333
8	French (fr) Carl von Linné		1 237 345
9	Polish (pl) Karol Linneusz		1 237 110
10	Japanese (ja) カール・フォン・リンネ		885 522

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) Carl Linnaeus		51 311
2	Spanish (es) Carlos Linneo		11 616
3	German (de) Carl von Linné		10 762
4	Russian (ru) Линней, Карл		8 535
5	Italian (it) Linneo		6 322
6	Swedish (sv) Carl von Linné		6 167
7	French (fr) Carl von Linné		4 829
8	Japanese (ja) カール・フォン・リンネ		4 662
9	Polish (pl) Karol Linneusz		3 497
10	Simple English (simple) Carl Linnaeus		3 398

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Carl Linnaeus		1 096
2	Swedish (sv) Carl von Linné		427
3	German (de) Carl von Linné		408
4	French (fr) Carl von Linné		351
5	Spanish (es) Carlos Linneo		306
6	Italian (it) Linneo		213
7	Dutch (nl) Carl Linnaeus		202
8	Russian (ru) Линней, Карл		176
9	Norwegian (no) Carl von Linné		164
10	Polish (pl) Karol Linneusz		137

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	Russian (ru) Линней, Карл		4
2	English (en) Carl Linnaeus		3
3	Chinese (zh) 卡尔·林奈		3
4	Swedish (sv) Carl von Linné		2
5	Arabic (ar) كارولوس لينيوس		1
6	Spanish (es) Carlos Linneo		1
7	Italian (it) Linneo		1
8	Japanese (ja) カール・フォン・リンネ		1
9	Kazakh (kk) Карл Линней		1
10	Norwegian (no) Carl von Linné		1

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information