Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei - Italian polymath (1564–1642). This person is the 126^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 148^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Galileo Galilei” in Simple English Wikipedia has 65.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 10 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 1353^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 350^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 148^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 341^st most popular in all topics.

The 281^st most popular in AI.

The 126^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 547^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1970^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2283^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Galileo Galilei”, its content was written by 131 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (350^th place) and edited by 9510 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (281^st place).

Galileo Galilei is on the 148^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 126^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 124 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 21785 times in all languages (7601^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #16 in January 2015
• Global: #28 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #73 in January 2012
• Global: #42 in June 2012

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) Galileo Galilei		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Galileu Galilei		100
3	Ukrainian (uk) Галілео Галілей		100
4	Croatian (hr) Galileo Galilei		100
5	English (en) Galileo Galilei		99.7628
6	Chinese (zh) 伽利略·伽利莱		98.1949
7	Russian (ru) Галилей, Галилео		94.9645
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Galileo Galilei		93.2829
9	Italian (it) Galileo Galilei		92.2106
10	Esperanto (eo) Galilejo		89.7202

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Galileo Galilei		43 824 824
2	Spanish (es) Galileo Galilei		32 225 698
3	Italian (it) Galileo Galilei		9 129 004
4	Portuguese (pt) Galileu Galilei		8 004 510
5	French (fr) Galilée (savant)		7 150 720
6	German (de) Galileo Galilei		6 760 377
7	Japanese (ja) ガリレオ・ガリレイ		5 784 513
8	Russian (ru) Галилей, Галилео		5 391 811
9	Turkish (tr) Galileo Galilei		3 341 648
10	Thai (th) กาลิเลโอ กาลิเลอี		1 997 329

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) Galileo Galilei		105 084
2	Spanish (es) Galileo Galilei		37 049
3	Japanese (ja) ガリレオ・ガリレイ		26 762
4	French (fr) Galilée (savant)		18 990
5	German (de) Galileo Galilei		15 045
6	Portuguese (pt) Galileu Galilei		12 020
7	Italian (it) Galileo Galilei		11 648
8	Russian (ru) Галилей, Галилео		11 396
9	Chinese (zh) 伽利略·伽利莱		8 034
10	Korean (ko) 갈릴레오 갈릴레이		5 837

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Galileo Galilei		1 800
2	Italian (it) Galileo Galilei		712
3	French (fr) Galilée (savant)		687
4	German (de) Galileo Galilei		635
5	Spanish (es) Galileo Galilei		542
6	Hebrew (he) גלילאו גליליי		331
7	Dutch (nl) Galileo Galilei		311
8	Russian (ru) Галилей, Галилео		310
9	Portuguese (pt) Galileu Galilei		285
10	Polish (pl) Galileusz		225

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	English (en) Galileo Galilei		7
2	Italian (it) Galileo Galilei		7
3	Basque (eu) Galileo Galilei		4
4	Bulgarian (bg) Галилео Галилей		3
5	German (de) Galileo Galilei		3
6	Armenian (hy) Գալիլեո Գալիլեյ		3
7	Catalan (ca) Galileo Galilei		2
8	French (fr) Galilée (savant)		2
9	Turkish (tr) Galileo Galilei		2
10	Arabic (ar) غاليليو غاليلي		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