Consciousness

Quality:

Consciousness - knowledge that a being has of its external and internal existence and its environment. Article “Consciousness” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Dutch 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 6793^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 8336^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6766^th most popular in all topics.

The 4583^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9166^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Consciousness”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8336^th place) and edited by 3749 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4583^rd place).

The article is cited 210 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 19065 times in all languages (9083^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #59 in August 2005
• Global: #47 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1019 in January 2026
• Global: #3734 in April 2013

There are 51 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	Dutch (nl) Bewustzijn		100
2	English (en) Consciousness		94.3165
3	Chinese (zh) 意识		90.2766
4	French (fr) Conscience		74.7515
5	Greek (el) Συνείδηση		72.8128
6	Basque (eu) Kontzientzia		71.0899
7	German (de) Bewusstsein		69.6601
8	Persian (fa) خودآگاهی		58.5631
9	Ukrainian (uk) Свідомість		53.1
10	Polish (pl) Świadomość		51.5046

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Consciousness		15 919 473
2	Russian (ru) Сознание		3 568 878
3	French (fr) Conscience		2 112 074
4	Portuguese (pt) Consciência		1 860 016
5	German (de) Bewusstsein		1 788 930
6	Italian (it) Coscienza		1 281 802
7	Japanese (ja) 意識		1 044 570
8	Polish (pl) Świadomość		993 814
9	Arabic (ar) وعي		819 985
10	Ukrainian (uk) Свідомість		760 380

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) Consciousness		33 193
2	Russian (ru) Сознание		4 306
3	German (de) Bewusstsein		3 717
4	French (fr) Conscience		2 625
5	Chinese (zh) 意识		2 583
6	Japanese (ja) 意識		1 899
7	Persian (fa) خودآگاهی		1 738
8	Polish (pl) Świadomość		1 608
9	Portuguese (pt) Consciência		1 528
10	Italian (it) Coscienza		1 030

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Consciousness		1 186
2	German (de) Bewusstsein		433
3	French (fr) Conscience		237
4	Russian (ru) Сознание		179
5	Dutch (nl) Bewustzijn		173
6	Hebrew (he) תודעה		121
7	Japanese (ja) 意識		104
8	Italian (it) Coscienza		91
9	Polish (pl) Świadomość		90
10	Chinese (zh) 意识		83

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) Consciousness		5
2	French (fr) Conscience		4
3	Azerbaijani (az) Şüur		1
4	Estonian (et) Teadvus		1
5	Persian (fa) خودآگاهی		1
6	Japanese (ja) 意識		1
7	Dutch (nl) Bewustzijn		1
8	Polish (pl) Świadomość		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Свідомість		1
10	Arabic (ar) وعي		0

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