English Wikipedia

Quality:

English Wikipedia - English-language edition of Wikipedia. This website is the 49^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 19^th most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “English Wikipedia” in Simple English Wikipedia has 74.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 43 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2280^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 474^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 19^th most popular in websites in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5924^th most popular in all topics.

The 3984^th most popular in AI.

The 49^th most popular in websites.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2203^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9249^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “English Wikipedia”, its content was written by 119 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (474^th place) and edited by 3989 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3984^th place).

English Wikipedia is on the 19^th place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 49^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 143 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 529818 times in all languages (177^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #68 in July 2023
• Global: #222 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #457 in January 2025
• Global: #796 in February 2022

There are 54 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	Simple English (simple) English Wikipedia		74.4553
2	English (en) English Wikipedia		74.3198
3	Malay (ms) Wikipedia Bahasa Inggeris		53.4794
4	Hindi (hi) अंग्रेज़ी विकिपीडिया		48.4938
5	German (de) Englischsprachige Wikipedia		46.0144
6	Japanese (ja) 英語版ウィキペディア		40.1928
7	Thai (th) วิกิพีเดียภาษาอังกฤษ		39.48
8	Swedish (sv) Engelskspråkiga Wikipedia		39.4067
9	Latin (la) Vicipaedia Anglica		36.1449
10	Persian (fa) ویکی‌پدیای انگلیسی		35.8812

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) English Wikipedia		32 857 694
2	Persian (fa) ویکی‌پدیای انگلیسی		935 360
3	Spanish (es) Wikipedia en inglés		624 403
4	Russian (ru) Английская Википедия		522 444
5	Japanese (ja) 英語版ウィキペディア		451 108
6	French (fr) Wikipédia en anglais		373 941
7	Korean (ko) 영어 위키백과		325 700
8	Chinese (zh) 英語維基百科		264 840
9	Polish (pl) Wikipedia w języku angielskim		193 552
10	German (de) Englischsprachige Wikipedia		185 568

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) English Wikipedia		91 221
2	Persian (fa) ویکی‌پدیای انگلیسی		4 931
3	French (fr) Wikipédia en anglais		1 207
4	Japanese (ja) 英語版ウィキペディア		825
5	Swedish (sv) Engelskspråkiga Wikipedia		736
6	Russian (ru) Английская Википедия		701
7	German (de) Englischsprachige Wikipedia		594
8	Spanish (es) Wikipedia en inglés		579
9	Chinese (zh) 英語維基百科		543
10	Simple English (simple) English Wikipedia		541

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) English Wikipedia		1 121
2	German (de) Englischsprachige Wikipedia		434
3	Russian (ru) Английская Википедия		208
4	French (fr) Wikipédia en anglais		138
5	Simple English (simple) English Wikipedia		119
6	Italian (it) Wikipedia in inglese		114
7	Spanish (es) Wikipedia en inglés		112
8	Persian (fa) ویکی‌پدیای انگلیسی		111
9	Hebrew (he) ויקיפדיה האנגלית		103
10	Dutch (nl) Engelstalige Wikipedia		103

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	Arabic (ar) ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية		4
2	Russian (ru) Английская Википедия		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) İngiliscə Vikipediya		1
4	English (en) English Wikipedia		1
5	Japanese (ja) 英語版ウィキペディア		1
6	Romanian (ro) Wikipedia în engleză		1
7	Tamil (ta) ஆங்கில விக்கிப்பீடியா		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedia tiếng Anh		1
9	Chinese (zh) 英語維基百科		1
10	Belarusian (be) Англійская Вікіпедыя		0

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.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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