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Homo ludens

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Homo Ludens - essay by Johan Huizinga. This book is the 1485th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 817th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Homo ludens” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 3 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:
Global Wikipedia:
The 1485th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Homo ludens”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 523 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Homo Ludens is on the 817th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1485th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 238 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1322 in March 2024
  • Global: #22690 in April 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #14718 in September 2024
  • Global: #32542 in November 2019

There are 25 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Homo Ludens
56.9655
2Azerbaijani (az)
Homo Ludens
48.1062
3Armenian (hy)
Homo ludens
37.7408
4German (de)
Homo ludens
35.9477
5Indonesian (id)
Homo ludens
33.6219
6Malay (ms)
Homo Ludens
31.9749
7French (fr)
Homo ludens
31.7363
8Spanish (es)
Homo ludens
28.4536
9Simple English (simple)
Homo ludens
27.2575
10Polish (pl)
Homo ludens
25.8665
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Homo ludens" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Homo Ludens
1 163 085
2German (de)
Homo ludens
560 632
3Russian (ru)
Homo ludens
427 609
4Spanish (es)
Homo ludens
408 438
5Portuguese (pt)
Homo Ludens
166 760
6Dutch (nl)
Homo ludens
159 220
7Polish (pl)
Homo ludens
158 619
8French (fr)
Homo ludens
115 944
9Italian (it)
Homo ludens
97 763
10Korean (ko)
호모 루덴스
94 742
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Homo ludens" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Homo Ludens
6 247
2Russian (ru)
Homo ludens
1 582
3German (de)
Homo ludens
1 570
4Spanish (es)
Homo ludens
1 238
5Korean (ko)
호모 루덴스
798
6Dutch (nl)
Homo ludens
551
7Italian (it)
Homo ludens
542
8Chinese (zh)
游戏的人
487
9Portuguese (pt)
Homo Ludens
462
10French (fr)
Homo ludens
443
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Homo ludens" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Homo ludens
101
2English (en)
Homo Ludens
92
3Spanish (es)
Homo ludens
46
4French (fr)
Homo ludens
43
5Dutch (nl)
Homo ludens
38
6Russian (ru)
Homo ludens
35
7Italian (it)
Homo ludens
23
8Polish (pl)
Homo ludens
21
9Norwegian (no)
Homo ludens
18
10Czech (cs)
Homo ludens
13
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Homo ludens" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Azerbaijani (az)
Homo Ludens
0
2Bulgarian (bg)
Homo ludens
0
3Czech (cs)
Homo ludens
0
4German (de)
Homo ludens
0
5English (en)
Homo Ludens
0
6Esperanto (eo)
Homo ludens
0
7Spanish (es)
Homo ludens
0
8Persian (fa)
انسان بازیگر
0
9Finnish (fi)
Leikkivä ihminen
0
10French (fr)
Homo ludens
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Homo ludens" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Homo Ludens
40
2German (de)
Homo ludens
33
3Spanish (es)
Homo ludens
21
4Russian (ru)
Homo ludens
18
5Dutch (nl)
Homo ludens
16
6Ukrainian (uk)
Homo Ludens
16
7French (fr)
Homo ludens
15
8Polish (pl)
Homo ludens
12
9Italian (it)
Homo ludens
11
10Czech (cs)
Homo ludens
8
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

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bgBulgarian
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csCzech
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deGerman
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enEnglish
Homo Ludens
eoEsperanto
Homo ludens
esSpanish
Homo ludens
faPersian
انسان بازیگر
fiFinnish
Leikkivä ihminen
frFrench
Homo ludens
hyArmenian
Homo ludens
idIndonesian
Homo ludens
itItalian
Homo ludens
koKorean
호모 루덴스
msMalay
Homo Ludens
nlDutch
Homo ludens
noNorwegian
Homo ludens
plPolish
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ptPortuguese
Homo Ludens
ruRussian
Homo ludens
simpleSimple English
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svSwedish
Homo ludens
trTurkish
Homo Ludens
ukUkrainian
Homo Ludens
zhChinese
游戏的人

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#14718
09.2024
Global:
#32542
11.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1322
03.2024
Global:
#22690
04.2010

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Homo Ludens from Wikipedia articles about Johan Huizinga, Playboy, Homo faber, Magic Circle and Ludens. Whereas reading the article about Homo Ludens people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Johan Huizinga, Homo faber, Magic Circle, Man, Play and Games and Game studies.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Homo ludens

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