Essay

Quality:

Essay - piece of writing often written from an author's personal point of view. Article “Essay” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4028^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2112^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1632^nd most popular in all topics.

The 5075^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9935^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 3050^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Essay” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3050^th place) and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Essay”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2112^th place) and edited by 3571 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5075^th place).

The article is cited 272 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 66126 times in all languages (2567^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #187 in February 2017
• Global: #321 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #975 in June 2013
• Global: #369 in September 2018

There are 52 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	English (en) Essay		60.8916
2	Slovenian (sl) Esej		54.979
3	Spanish (es) Ensayo		41.4588
4	Hungarian (hu) Esszé		35.3094
5	Latin (la) Progymnasma		30.0551
6	Ukrainian (uk) Есе		29.453
7	Dutch (nl) Essay		28.7144
8	Uzbek (uz) Esse (asar)		28.0603
9	Russian (ru) Эссе		28.018
10	Italian (it) Saggio		27.7168

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Ensayo		29 008 479
2	English (en) Essay		14 187 207
3	French (fr) Essai		5 271 130
4	Russian (ru) Эссе		4 066 595
5	German (de) Essay		3 200 390
6	Turkish (tr) Deneme		2 295 827
7	Polish (pl) Esej		2 175 123
8	Hindi (hi) निबन्ध		1 346 680
9	Japanese (ja) 随筆		1 300 049
10	Ukrainian (uk) Есе		1 182 572

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) Essay		11 286
2	Spanish (es) Ensayo		5 626
3	French (fr) Essai		5 273
4	Turkish (tr) Deneme		3 596
5	German (de) Essay		3 520
6	Japanese (ja) 随筆		2 650
7	Russian (ru) Эссе		2 496
8	Italian (it) Saggio		1 596
9	Portuguese (pt) Ensaio		1 153
10	Polish (pl) Esej		1 112

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Essay		839
2	Spanish (es) Ensayo		452
3	German (de) Essay		269
4	French (fr) Essai		161
5	Russian (ru) Эссе		125
6	Dutch (nl) Essay		98
7	Turkish (tr) Deneme		97
8	Italian (it) Saggio		92
9	Danish (da) Essay		84
10	Hindi (hi) निबन्ध		78

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	Dutch (nl) Essay		3
2	Portuguese (pt) Ensaio		2
3	German (de) Essay		1
4	English (en) Essay		1
5	Estonian (et) Essee		1
6	Basque (eu) Saiakera		1
7	Persian (fa) جستار		1
8	Polish (pl) Esej		1
9	Simple English (simple) Essay		1
10	Turkish (tr) Deneme		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.

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