Classical element

Quality:

Classical elements - group of constituent basic elements of matter (water, earth, fire, air and sometimes aether), used to explain nature patterns since ancient times. Article “Classical element” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.19 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Classical element”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2239 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 77 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6480 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #17 in August 2003
• Global: #89 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4206 in August 2016
• Global: #8237 in May 2009

There are 44 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) Classical element		80.3618
2	German (de) Vier-Elemente-Lehre		63.6768
3	Japanese (ja) 四元素		55.8659
4	Catalan (ca) Elements clàssics		55.1341
5	Italian (it) Quattro elementi		52.9742
6	Spanish (es) Elementos de la naturaleza		52.8564
7	Polish (pl) Żywioły		51.9634
8	French (fr) Quatre éléments		50.0741
9	Chinese (zh) 古典元素		47.9575
10	Hebrew (he) ארבעת היסודות		40.4587

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Classical element		9 219 290
2	Spanish (es) Elementos de la naturaleza		3 480 060
3	French (fr) Quatre éléments		2 211 060
4	German (de) Vier-Elemente-Lehre		2 192 053
5	Japanese (ja) 四元素		1 820 248
6	Portuguese (pt) Elementos clássicos		1 343 833
7	Russian (ru) Стихии (философия)		1 261 457
8	Polish (pl) Żywioły		1 050 155
9	Italian (it) Quattro elementi		752 858
10	Persian (fa) عناصر چهارگانه		579 020

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) Classical element		22 421
2	Japanese (ja) 四元素		4 730
3	German (de) Vier-Elemente-Lehre		3 285
4	French (fr) Quatre éléments		2 802
5	Spanish (es) Elementos de la naturaleza		2 622
6	Russian (ru) Стихии (философия)		2 313
7	Persian (fa) عناصر چهارگانه		1 514
8	Chinese (zh) 古典元素		1 376
9	Italian (it) Quattro elementi		1 202
10	Hebrew (he) ארבעת היסודות		1 113

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Classical element		608
2	German (de) Vier-Elemente-Lehre		240
3	French (fr) Quatre éléments		171
4	Chinese (zh) 古典元素		98
5	Hebrew (he) ארבעת היסודות		96
6	Spanish (es) Elementos de la naturaleza		94
7	Dutch (nl) Element (oudheid)		89
8	Portuguese (pt) Elementos clássicos		88
9	Polish (pl) Żywioły		84
10	Russian (ru) Стихии (философия)		76

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	French (fr) Quatre éléments		3
2	English (en) Classical element		2
3	Arabic (ar) عنصر تقليدي		1
4	Catalan (ca) Elements clàssics		1
5	German (de) Vier-Elemente-Lehre		1
6	Basque (eu) Elementu klasikoak		1
7	Galician (gl) Elementos clásicos		1
8	Hebrew (he) ארבעת היסודות		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Стихія (алхімія)		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Nguyên tố cổ điển		1

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

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