Encyclopedia

Quality:

Encyclopedia - type of reference work. Article “Encyclopedia” in Simple English Wikipedia has 23.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 380^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 57^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1780^th most popular in all topics.

The 435^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 189^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 111^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2996^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1307^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Encyclopedia” was edited by 7 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (111^th place) and written by 55 authors in all languages (1307^th place).

Since the creation of article “Encyclopedia”, its content was written by 245 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (57^th place) and edited by 8422 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (435^th place).

The article is cited 203 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 17898 times in all languages (9296^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in May 2003
• Global: #14 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10 in October 2009
• Global: #511 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, 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	German (de) Enzyklopädie		100
2	French (fr) Encyclopédie		93.3283
3	English (en) Encyclopedia		83.0387
4	Esperanto (eo) Enciklopedio		80.9008
5	Basque (eu) Entziklopedia		80.2585
6	Chinese (zh) 百科全书		78.866
7	Catalan (ca) Enciclopèdia		63.2467
8	Estonian (et) Entsüklopeedia		61.4058
9	Italian (it) Enciclopedia		57.0722
10	Latin (la) Encyclopaedia		56.2745

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Encyclopedia		29 501 133
2	Spanish (es) Enciclopedia		7 456 798
3	French (fr) Encyclopédie		2 846 658
4	Japanese (ja) 百科事典		2 813 899
5	German (de) Enzyklopädie		2 550 438
6	Russian (ru) Энциклопедия		2 437 305
7	Portuguese (pt) Enciclopédia		2 253 851
8	Italian (it) Enciclopedia		2 199 227
9	Arabic (ar) موسوعة		1 655 604
10	Polish (pl) Encyklopedia		1 632 689

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		142 906
2	Italian (it) Enciclopedia		18 213
3	German (de) Enzyklopädie		14 112
4	Japanese (ja) 百科事典		9 347
5	Simple English (simple) Encyclopedia		7 025
6	Spanish (es) Enciclopedia		5 525
7	Korean (ko) 백과사전		4 967
8	Portuguese (pt) Enciclopédia		4 591
9	Russian (ru) Энциклопедия		3 505
10	French (fr) Encyclopédie		3 194

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Encyclopedia		2 021
2	German (de) Enzyklopädie		660
3	French (fr) Encyclopédie		514
4	Spanish (es) Enciclopedia		391
5	Italian (it) Enciclopedia		355
6	Dutch (nl) Encyclopedie		296
7	Russian (ru) Энциклопедия		295
8	Japanese (ja) 百科事典		259
9	Simple English (simple) Encyclopedia		245
10	Hebrew (he) אנציקלופדיה		235

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	Italian (it) Enciclopedia		13
2	English (en) Encyclopedia		10
3	Simple English (simple) Encyclopedia		7
4	Spanish (es) Enciclopedia		5
5	French (fr) Encyclopédie		4
6	Korean (ko) 백과사전		3
7	Czech (cs) Encyklopedie		2
8	Indonesian (id) Ensiklopedia		2
9	Chinese (zh) 百科全书		2
10	Catalan (ca) Enciclopèdia		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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information