Encyclopedia

Quality:

Encyclopedia - type of reference work. Article “Encyclopedia” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in German 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 394^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 56^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1821^st most popular in all topics.

The 446^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 154^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 601^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6023^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3289^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Encyclopedia” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (601^st place) and written by 36 authors in all languages (3289^th place).

Since the creation of article “Encyclopedia”, its content was written by 258 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (56^th place) and edited by 8473 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (446^th place).

The article is cited 204 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 18180 times in all languages (9560^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4 in May 2003
• Global: #14 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10 in October 2009
• Global: #518 in April 2014

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	German (de) Enzyklopädie		100
2	French (fr) Encyclopédie		93.1876
3	English (en) Encyclopedia		87.6079
4	Esperanto (eo) Enciklopedio		82.5512
5	Basque (eu) Entziklopedia		79.4571
6	Chinese (zh) 百科全书		78.7178
7	Catalan (ca) Enciclopèdia		63.3474
8	Estonian (et) Entsüklopeedia		62.4968
9	Galician (gl) Enciclopedia		60.1519
10	Portuguese (pt) Enciclopédia		59.5708

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Encyclopedia		30 515 708
2	Spanish (es) Enciclopedia		7 535 464
3	Japanese (ja) 百科事典		2 911 721
4	French (fr) Encyclopédie		2 891 356
5	Russian (ru) Энциклопедия		2 825 546
6	German (de) Enzyklopädie		2 706 088
7	Italian (it) Enciclopedia		2 355 697
8	Portuguese (pt) Enciclopédia		2 295 723
9	Arabic (ar) موسوعة		1 694 444
10	Polish (pl) Encyklopedia		1 648 173

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) Encyclopedia		69 590
2	Italian (it) Enciclopedia		10 876
3	German (de) Enzyklopädie		8 202
4	Korean (ko) 백과사전		6 915
5	Japanese (ja) 百科事典		6 704
6	Spanish (es) Enciclopedia		5 036
7	Simple English (simple) Encyclopedia		3 364
8	Portuguese (pt) Enciclopédia		3 287
9	French (fr) Encyclopédie		2 598
10	Russian (ru) Энциклопедия		2 111

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Encyclopedia		2 014
2	German (de) Enzyklopädie		676
3	French (fr) Encyclopédie		528
4	Spanish (es) Enciclopedia		398
5	Italian (it) Enciclopedia		372
6	Dutch (nl) Encyclopedie		298
7	Russian (ru) Энциклопедия		298
8	Japanese (ja) 百科事典		263
9	Simple English (simple) Encyclopedia		258
10	Hebrew (he) אנציקלופדיה		238

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	German (de) Enzyklopädie		9
2	Italian (it) Enciclopedia		7
3	English (en) Encyclopedia		2
4	French (fr) Encyclopédie		2
5	Galician (gl) Enciclopedia		2
6	Hebrew (he) אנציקלופדיה		2
7	Simple English (simple) Encyclopedia		2
8	Thai (th) สารานุกรม		2
9	Azerbaijani (az) Ensiklopediya		1
10	Catalan (ca) Enciclopèdia		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

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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