Confucius

Quality:

Confucius - 5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician. This person is the 625^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 670^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Confucius” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.52 points.

This article has the best quality in Slovenian 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 5355^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2009^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 670^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1905^th most popular in all topics.

The 1311^th most popular in AI.

The 625^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1723^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4197^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Confucius”, its content was written by 57 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2009^th place) and edited by 5810 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1311^th place).

Confucius is on the 670^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 625^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 162 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 17683 times in all languages (9448^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #29 in September 2009
• Global: #7 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #860 in August 2008
• Global: #402 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, 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	Slovenian (sl) Konfucij		96.2835
2	Esperanto (eo) Konfuceo		87.7733
3	Basque (eu) Konfuzio		86.3242
4	Latin (la) Confucius		86.166
5	English (en) Confucius		84.6397
6	Galician (gl) Confucio		83.0717
7	Ukrainian (uk) Конфуцій		71.4608
8	Armenian (hy) Կոնֆուցիոս		68.4333
9	German (de) Konfuzius		66.9163
10	Chinese (zh) 孔子		62.4032

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Confucius		23 175 023
2	Spanish (es) Confucio		9 428 453
3	Chinese (zh) 孔子		4 966 103
4	Japanese (ja) 孔子		4 090 644
5	Russian (ru) Конфуций		3 974 079
6	German (de) Konfuzius		2 970 069
7	French (fr) Confucius		2 809 332
8	Vietnamese (vi) Khổng Tử		2 172 505
9	Portuguese (pt) Confúcio		1 737 070
10	Italian (it) Confucio		1 546 131

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		64 732
2	Chinese (zh) 孔子		29 080
3	Japanese (ja) 孔子		16 466
4	Spanish (es) Confucio		11 597
5	Russian (ru) Конфуций		9 496
6	French (fr) Confucius		7 909
7	German (de) Konfuzius		6 606
8	Vietnamese (vi) Khổng Tử		5 812
9	Korean (ko) 공자		5 207
10	Portuguese (pt) Confúcio		4 874

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Confucius		1 325
2	Chinese (zh) 孔子		432
3	German (de) Konfuzius		370
4	French (fr) Confucius		307
5	Spanish (es) Confucio		285
6	Russian (ru) Конфуций		227
7	Japanese (ja) 孔子		210
8	Italian (it) Confucio		209
9	Vietnamese (vi) Khổng Tử		203
10	Dutch (nl) Confucius		134

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) Confucius		4
2	Ukrainian (uk) Конфуцій		3
3	Korean (ko) 공자		2
4	Russian (ru) Конфуций		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Konfutsi		1
6	Greek (el) Κομφούκιος		1
7	Basque (eu) Konfuzio		1
8	Hebrew (he) קונפוציוס		1
9	Polish (pl) Konfucjusz		1
10	Turkish (tr) Konfüçyüs		1

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

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