Gay

Quality:

Gay - term referring to a homosexual person or the trait of homosexuality. Article “Gay” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.54 points.

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 992^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 74^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6349^th most popular in all topics.

The 4776^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 218^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1563^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Gay” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1563^rd place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Gay”, its content was written by 226 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (74^th place) and edited by 3620 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4776^th place).

The article is cited 512 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5117^th place) and cited 11772 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4 in May 2014
• Global: #79 in February 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #98 in May 2025
• Global: #1624 in May 2011

There are 27 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	English (en) Gay		79.5153
2	Indonesian (id) Gay		75.9408
3	Turkish (tr) Gey		41.401
4	Min Nan (zhminnan) Gay		38.8218
5	Croatian (hr) Gej		34.7056
6	Persian (fa) گی		33.9155
7	Italian (it) Gay		33.4666
8	Slovak (sk) Gej		31.5902
9	Hebrew (he) גיי		30.6061
10	Portuguese (pt) Gay		29.5687

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gay		25 067 852
2	Portuguese (pt) Gay		2 019 680
3	Turkish (tr) Gey		1 479 487
4	Italian (it) Gay		1 406 102
5	Indonesian (id) Gay		1 137 512
6	Persian (fa) گی		1 065 004
7	German (de) Gay		983 264
8	Arabic (ar) غاي (مصطلح)		578 397
9	Thai (th) เกย์		415 504
10	Simple English (simple) Gay		315 347

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) Gay		58 473
2	Persian (fa) گی		9 709
3	Simple English (simple) Gay		6 682
4	Turkish (tr) Gey		5 212
5	Thai (th) เกย์		4 887
6	Portuguese (pt) Gay		3 247
7	Italian (it) Gay		2 471
8	Uzbek (uz) Gey		2 244
9	Indonesian (id) Gay		1 782
10	German (de) Gay		1 645

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gay		2 073
2	Simple English (simple) Gay		226
3	Portuguese (pt) Gay		224
4	Turkish (tr) Gey		128
5	German (de) Gay		124
6	Italian (it) Gay		119
7	Bulgarian (bg) Гей		90
8	Greek (el) Γκέι		88
9	Indonesian (id) Gay		65
10	Korean (ko) 게이 (단어)		61

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) Gay		11
2	Simple English (simple) Gay		2
3	Thai (th) เกย์		2
4	Turkish (tr) Gey		2
5	Ukrainian (uk) Гей (термін)		2
6	Arabic (ar) غاي (مصطلح)		0
7	Belarusian (be) Гей		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Гей		0
9	German (de) Gay		0
10	Greek (el) Γκέι		0

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

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