Charles Babbage

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Charles Babbage - English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871). This person is the 3331^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 218^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Charles Babbage” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 3 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 1946^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 9694^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 218^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4275^th most popular in AI.

The 3331^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5283^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Charles Babbage”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9694^th place) and edited by 3857 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4275^th place).

Charles Babbage is on the 218^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 3331^st place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 24 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4288 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #279 in October 2020
• Global: #351 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #247 in June 2019
• Global: #3319 in December 2012

There are 52 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) Charles Babbage		98.2081
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Charles Babbage		72.7709
3	Latin (la) Carolus Babbage		71.5065
4	Catalan (ca) Charles Babbage		57.3092
5	Greek (el) Τσαρλς Μπάμπατζ		53.9841
6	Chinese (zh) 查尔斯·巴贝奇		52.2094
7	Malay (ms) Charles Babbage		49.0079
8	Estonian (et) Charles Babbage		44.6908
9	Swedish (sv) Charles Babbage		42.3041
10	Japanese (ja) チャールズ・バベッジ		41.3373

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Charles Babbage		12 871 750
2	Spanish (es) Charles Babbage		4 101 579
3	Russian (ru) Бэббидж, Чарлз		956 795
4	Portuguese (pt) Charles Babbage		797 591
5	French (fr) Charles Babbage		764 087
6	German (de) Charles Babbage		706 896
7	Arabic (ar) تشارلز بابيج		526 473
8	Japanese (ja) チャールズ・バベッジ		473 114
9	Indonesian (id) Charles Babbage		444 399
10	Hindi (hi) चार्ल्स बैबेज		395 969

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) Charles Babbage		35 682
2	Spanish (es) Charles Babbage		2 909
3	Portuguese (pt) Charles Babbage		1 505
4	German (de) Charles Babbage		1 489
5	Japanese (ja) チャールズ・バベッジ		1 489
6	Russian (ru) Бэббидж, Чарлз		1 279
7	Hindi (hi) चार्ल्स बैबेज		1 257
8	French (fr) Charles Babbage		1 189
9	Italian (it) Charles Babbage		696
10	Chinese (zh) 查尔斯·巴贝奇		639

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Charles Babbage		1 313
2	German (de) Charles Babbage		274
3	Spanish (es) Charles Babbage		231
4	French (fr) Charles Babbage		213
5	Russian (ru) Бэббидж, Чарлз		137
6	Italian (it) Charles Babbage		136
7	Dutch (nl) Charles Babbage		106
8	Hungarian (hu) Charles Babbage		86
9	Japanese (ja) チャールズ・バベッジ		80
10	Polish (pl) Charles Babbage		66

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) Charles Babbage		4
2	Catalan (ca) Charles Babbage		2
3	Spanish (es) Charles Babbage		2
4	French (fr) Charles Babbage		2
5	Arabic (ar) تشارلز بابيج		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Çarlz Bebbic		1
7	Greek (el) Τσαρλς Μπάμπατζ		1
8	Basque (eu) Charles Babbage		1
9	Polish (pl) Charles Babbage		1
10	Serbian (sr) Чарлс Бебиџ		1

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

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