Confucius

Quality:

Confucius - 5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician. This person is the 640^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 661^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Confucius” in Simple English Wikipedia has 8.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.46 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese 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 5131^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2155^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 661^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1903^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1332^nd most popular in AI.

The 640^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4912^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6303^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Confucius”, its content was written by 57 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2155^th place) and edited by 5836 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1332^nd place).

Confucius is on the 661^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 640^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 164 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 18110 times in all languages (9598^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #28 in September 2009
• Global: #7 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #862 in August 2008
• Global: #400 in September 2018

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, 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	Chinese (zh) 孔子		100
2	Malay (ms) Kongzi		100
3	Slovenian (sl) Konfucij		96.009
4	Galician (gl) Confucio		94.7987
5	Esperanto (eo) Konfuceo		87.4939
6	Latin (la) Confucius		87.1907
7	English (en) Confucius		85.6964
8	Basque (eu) Konfuzio		85.5278
9	Ukrainian (uk) Конфуцій		71.3626
10	Armenian (hy) Կոնֆուցիոս		68.2897

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Confucius		24 057 626
2	Spanish (es) Confucio		9 585 201
3	Chinese (zh) 孔子		5 240 118
4	Russian (ru) Конфуций		4 499 656
5	Japanese (ja) 孔子		4 256 578
6	German (de) Konfuzius		3 058 384
7	French (fr) Confucius		2 924 119
8	Vietnamese (vi) Khổng Tử		2 247 948
9	Portuguese (pt) Confúcio		1 799 586
10	Italian (it) Confucio		1 607 127

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) Confucius		57 991
2	Chinese (zh) 孔子		21 486
3	Japanese (ja) 孔子		14 627
4	Spanish (es) Confucio		9 796
5	French (fr) Confucius		7 302
6	Russian (ru) Конфуций		6 332
7	German (de) Konfuzius		5 401
8	Vietnamese (vi) Khổng Tử		4 297
9	Italian (it) Confucio		4 224
10	Portuguese (pt) Confúcio		3 884

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Confucius		1 344
2	Chinese (zh) 孔子		452
3	German (de) Konfuzius		374
4	French (fr) Confucius		317
5	Spanish (es) Confucio		287
6	Russian (ru) Конфуций		231
7	Japanese (ja) 孔子		214
8	Italian (it) Confucio		213
9	Vietnamese (vi) Khổng Tử		203
10	Dutch (nl) Confucius		135

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	Chinese (zh) 孔子		11
2	Azerbaijani (az) Konfutsi		3
3	French (fr) Confucius		2
4	Russian (ru) Конфуций		2
5	Belarusian (be) Канфуцый		1
6	German (de) Konfuzius		1
7	English (en) Confucius		1
8	Basque (eu) Konfuzio		1
9	Latin (la) Confucius		1
10	Serbian (sr) Конфучије		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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information