Fossil

Quality:

Fossil - preserved remains or traces of organisms from a past geological age. Article “Fossil” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 11 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 3600^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1785^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5501^st most popular in all topics.

The 3778^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7314^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9143^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Fossil”, its content was written by 63 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1785^th place) and edited by 4086 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3778^th place).

The article is cited 595 times in Simple English Wikipedia (3155^th place) and cited 77177 times in all languages (2230^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #78 in February 2019
• Global: #119 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1066 in December 2010
• Global: #1685 in November 2009

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	English (en) Fossil		90.8121
2	German (de) Fossil		75.9123
3	Catalan (ca) Fòssil		71.9232
4	Ukrainian (uk) Скам'янілості		71.8216
5	French (fr) Fossile		68.477
6	Slovenian (sl) Fosil		67.9216
7	Portuguese (pt) Fóssil		66.5608
8	Hebrew (he) מאובן		63.4474
9	Spanish (es) Fósil		61.9543
10	Galician (gl) Fósil		54.815

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fossil		11 137 122
2	Spanish (es) Fósil		10 252 970
3	German (de) Fossil		2 477 942
4	Portuguese (pt) Fóssil		2 249 548
5	French (fr) Fossile		1 805 018
6	Japanese (ja) 化石		1 607 897
7	Thai (th) ซากดึกดำบรรพ์		1 077 637
8	Italian (it) Fossile		980 417
9	Indonesian (id) Fosil		821 944
10	Arabic (ar) مستحاثة		797 251

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) Fossil		20 187
2	German (de) Fossil		3 860
3	Spanish (es) Fósil		3 650
4	French (fr) Fossile		2 545
5	Japanese (ja) 化石		2 065
6	Russian (ru) Фоссилии		2 041
7	Chinese (zh) 化石		1 242
8	Portuguese (pt) Fóssil		1 216
9	Dutch (nl) Fossiel		1 070
10	Italian (it) Fossile		979

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fossil		836
2	German (de) Fossil		396
3	Spanish (es) Fósil		324
4	French (fr) Fossile		266
5	Portuguese (pt) Fóssil		186
6	Italian (it) Fossile		185
7	Dutch (nl) Fossiel		155
8	Japanese (ja) 化石		117
9	Hebrew (he) מאובן		91
10	Russian (ru) Фоссилии		87

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	Spanish (es) Fósil		3
2	Arabic (ar) مستحاثة		2
3	English (en) Fossil		2
4	Hebrew (he) מאובן		2
5	Italian (it) Fossile		2
6	Ukrainian (uk) Скам'янілості		2
7	Bulgarian (bg) Вкаменелост		1
8	Catalan (ca) Fòssil		1
9	Basque (eu) Fosil		1
10	Persian (fa) فسیل		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