Gautama Buddha

Quality:

The Buddha - Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE). This person is the 216^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 12^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Gautama Buddha” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish 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 124^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 390^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 12^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 587^th most popular in all topics.

The 610^th most popular in AI.

The 216^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 339^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 4076^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1051^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1667^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Gautama Buddha” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4076^th place) and written by 49 authors in all languages (1667^th place).

Since the creation of article “Gautama Buddha”, its content was written by 125 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (390^th place) and edited by 7545 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (610^th place).

The Buddha is on the 12^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 216^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 123 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 41601 times in all languages (3938^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #13 in November 2015
• Global: #102 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #38 in October 2016
• Global: #458 in May 2024

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	Spanish (es) Buda Gautama		100
2	Tamil (ta) கௌதம புத்தர்		100
3	Hungarian (hu) Gautama Sziddhártha		100
4	Slovenian (sl) Gautama Buda		100
5	English (en) The Buddha		95
6	Esperanto (eo) Budho Gotamo		91.8452
7	French (fr) Siddhartha Gautama		89.6922
8	Bulgarian (bg) Сидхарта Гаутама Буда		82.4789
9	Italian (it) Gautama Buddha		81.8367
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Gautama Buddha		76.9242

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Buddha		53 940 349
2	Spanish (es) Buda Gautama		11 408 534
3	Japanese (ja) 釈迦		8 381 653
4	Hindi (hi) गौतम बुद्ध		5 588 795
5	Chinese (zh) 释迦牟尼		4 494 979
6	Russian (ru) Будда Шакьямуни		3 955 872
7	German (de) Siddhartha Gautama		2 978 102
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thích-ca Mâu-ni		2 904 009
9	Indonesian (id) Siddhattha Gotama		2 866 531
10	Portuguese (pt) Sidarta Gautama		2 314 080

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) The Buddha		202 381
2	Japanese (ja) 釈迦		30 237
3	Chinese (zh) 释迦牟尼		25 570
4	Spanish (es) Buda Gautama		25 418
5	Hindi (hi) गौतम बुद्ध		19 169
6	Russian (ru) Будда Шакьямуни		18 284
7	Vietnamese (vi) Thích-ca Mâu-ni		15 018
8	Portuguese (pt) Sidarta Gautama		13 071
9	German (de) Siddhartha Gautama		11 534
10	Thai (th) พระโคตมพุทธเจ้า		9 778

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Buddha		2 158
2	German (de) Siddhartha Gautama		413
3	Spanish (es) Buda Gautama		379
4	Japanese (ja) 釈迦		326
5	French (fr) Siddhartha Gautama		272
6	Chinese (zh) 释迦牟尼		271
7	Italian (it) Gautama Buddha		261
8	Russian (ru) Будда Шакьямуни		241
9	Vietnamese (vi) Thích-ca Mâu-ni		233
10	Dutch (nl) Gautama Boeddha		197

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	Chinese (zh) 释迦牟尼		11
2	English (en) The Buddha		8
3	Spanish (es) Buda Gautama		6
4	German (de) Siddhartha Gautama		5
5	Tamil (ta) கௌதம புத்தர்		4
6	French (fr) Siddhartha Gautama		3
7	Japanese (ja) 釈迦		3
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thích-ca Mâu-ni		2
9	Arabic (ar) غوتاما بوذا		1
10	Catalan (ca) Siddharta Gautama		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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