English language

Quality:

English - West Germanic language. Article "English language" in Simple English Wikipedia has 48.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 13 references and 13 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 18th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 39th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 79th most popular in all topics.
The 71st most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 83rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
The 326th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 309th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 486th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "English language" was edited by 4 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (326th place) and written by 104 authors in all languages (486th place).

Since the creation of article "English language", its content was written by 261 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (39th place) and edited by 12577 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (71st place).

The article is cited 4296 times in Simple English Wikipedia (65th place) and cited 3433754 times in all languages (16th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #8 in April 2008
  • Global: #18 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #1 in April 2023
  • Global: #55 in April 2010

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 August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Turkish (tr)
İngilizce
94.2857
2English (en)
English language
94.0622
3Persian (fa)
زبان انگلیسی
91.0052
4Finnish (fi)
Englannin kieli
87.7925
5Croatian (hr)
Engleski jezik
84.085
6Galician (gl)
Lingua inglesa
83.5898
7Indonesian (id)
Bahasa Inggris
83.3708
8Hindi (hi)
अंग्रेज़ी भाषा
80.4048
9Norwegian (no)
Engelsk
75.6341
10Polish (pl)
Język angielski
74.3723
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "English language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
English language
81 822 107
2Russian (ru)
Английский язык
21 410 577
3Spanish (es)
Idioma inglés
16 996 319
4Arabic (ar)
اللغة الإنجليزية
11 093 392
5Japanese (ja)
英語
9 378 137
6Portuguese (pt)
Língua inglesa
8 283 154
7German (de)
Englische Sprache
8 048 884
8Indonesian (id)
Bahasa Inggris
6 147 486
9Persian (fa)
زبان انگلیسی
6 000 648
10Thai (th)
ภาษาอังกฤษ
5 852 192
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "English language" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
English language
343 227
2Russian (ru)
Английский язык
154 002
3Persian (fa)
زبان انگلیسی
52 717
4Arabic (ar)
اللغة الإنجليزية
51 601
5Japanese (ja)
英語
47 867
6Spanish (es)
Idioma inglés
40 376
7Indonesian (id)
Bahasa Inggris
31 350
8German (de)
Englische Sprache
26 094
9Thai (th)
ภาษาอังกฤษ
21 991
10Vietnamese (vi)
Tiếng Anh
19 280
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "English language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
English language
2 869
2Spanish (es)
Idioma inglés
684
3French (fr)
Anglais
642
4German (de)
Englische Sprache
616
5Russian (ru)
Английский язык
516
6Italian (it)
Lingua inglese
463
7Japanese (ja)
英語
424
8Chinese (zh)
英语
399
9Dutch (nl)
Engels
343
10Hebrew (he)
אנגלית
307
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "English language" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
English language
14
2Arabic (ar)
اللغة الإنجليزية
10
3Russian (ru)
Английский язык
9
4Hebrew (he)
אנגלית
6
5Spanish (es)
Idioma inglés
5
6Persian (fa)
زبان انگلیسی
5
7Serbian (sr)
Енглески језик
5
8Azerbaijani (az)
İngilis dili
4
9French (fr)
Anglais
4
10Japanese (ja)
英語
4
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "English language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Arabic (ar)
اللغة الإنجليزية
439 525
2Persian (fa)
زبان انگلیسی
418 337
3Russian (ru)
Английский язык
303 272
4Ukrainian (uk)
Англійська мова
216 494
5Japanese (ja)
英語
161 078
6Spanish (es)
Idioma inglés
105 781
7Italian (it)
Lingua inglese
104 665
8Urdu (ur)
انگریزی زبان
99 143
9English (en)
English language
98 595
10Hebrew (he)
אנגלית
95 668
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in July 2024:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Authors in July 2024:
Simple English:
Global:
Registered authors in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اللغة الإنجليزية
azAzerbaijani
İngilis dili
beBelarusian
Англійская мова
bgBulgarian
Английски език
caCatalan
Anglès
csCzech
Angličtina
daDanish
Engelsk (sprog)
deGerman
Englische Sprache
elGreek
Αγγλική γλώσσα
enEnglish
English language
eoEsperanto
Angla lingvo
esSpanish
Idioma inglés
etEstonian
Inglise keel
euBasque
Ingeles
faPersian
زبان انگلیسی
fiFinnish
Englannin kieli
frFrench
Anglais
glGalician
Lingua inglesa
heHebrew
אנגלית
hiHindi
अंग्रेज़ी भाषा
hrCroatian
Engleski jezik
huHungarian
Angol nyelv
hyArmenian
Անգլերեն
idIndonesian
Bahasa Inggris
itItalian
Lingua inglese
jaJapanese
英語
kaGeorgian
ინგლისური ენა
kkKazakh
Ағылшын тілі
koKorean
영어
laLatin
Lingua Anglica
ltLithuanian
Anglų kalba
msMalay
Bahasa Inggeris
nlDutch
Engels
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Engelsk
noNorwegian
Engelsk
plPolish
Język angielski
ptPortuguese
Língua inglesa
roRomanian
Limba engleză
ruRussian
Английский язык
shSerbo-Croatian
Engleski jezik
simpleSimple English
English language
skSlovak
Angličtina
slSlovenian
Angleščina
srSerbian
Енглески језик
svSwedish
Engelska
taTamil
ஆங்கிலம்
thThai
ภาษาอังกฤษ
trTurkish
İngilizce
ukUkrainian
Англійська мова
urUrdu
انگریزی زبان
uzUzbek
Ingliz tili
viVietnamese
Tiếng Anh
voVolapük
Linglänapük
zhChinese
英语
zhminnanMin Nan
Eng-gí

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1
04.2023
Global:
#55
04.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#8
04.2008
Global:
#18
08.2003

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on English from Wikipedia articles about United States of America, English, United Kingdom, Germanic and American English. Whereas reading the article about English people most often go to Wikipedia articles on West Germanic, United States of America, Indo-European, List of countries and territories where English is an official language and Germanic.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 英語
zh: 英语
ko: 영어
nl: Engels
zhminnan: Eng-gí

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