Laozi

Quality:

Laozi - 6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism. This person is the 2691^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 602^nd most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Laozi” in Simple English Wikipedia has 78.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 52 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese 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 4860^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4852^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 602^nd most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9627^th most popular in all topics.

The 4750^th most popular in AI.

The 2691^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8422^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Laozi”, its content was written by 35 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4852^nd place) and edited by 3629 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4750^th place).

Laozi is on the 602^nd place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2691^st place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 97 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9138 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #94 in May 2004
• Global: #524 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #715 in August 2013
• Global: #7375 in September 2020

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	Chinese (zh) 老子		81.3823
2	English (en) Laozi		81.0045
3	Esperanto (eo) Laŭzio		78.5331
4	Simple English (simple) Laozi		78.0638
5	Portuguese (pt) Lao Zi		66.5237
6	Japanese (ja) 老子		65.6069
7	Basque (eu) Laozi		65.4778
8	Catalan (ca) Laozi		64.4726
9	Latin (la) Laocius		57.8673
10	Finnish (fi) Laozi		53.8157

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Laozi		10 364 703
2	Spanish (es) Lao-Tse		2 857 657
3	Chinese (zh) 老子		2 378 034
4	Russian (ru) Лао-цзы		1 871 782
5	Japanese (ja) 老子		1 609 323
6	French (fr) Lao Tseu		1 364 466
7	German (de) Laozi		1 223 888
8	Vietnamese (vi) Lão Tử		819 453
9	Italian (it) Laozi		717 190
10	Portuguese (pt) Lao Zi		615 808

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) Laozi		35 492
2	Chinese (zh) 老子		11 438
3	Japanese (ja) 老子		6 854
4	Spanish (es) Lao-Tse		6 605
5	Russian (ru) Лао-цзы		6 347
6	French (fr) Lao Tseu		4 370
7	German (de) Laozi		3 694
8	Vietnamese (vi) Lão Tử		2 963
9	Italian (it) Laozi		2 747
10	Korean (ko) 노자		2 616

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Laozi		759
2	Chinese (zh) 老子		251
3	German (de) Laozi		225
4	French (fr) Lao Tseu		201
5	Russian (ru) Лао-цзы		153
6	Italian (it) Laozi		149
7	Spanish (es) Lao-Tse		120
8	Japanese (ja) 老子		112
9	Vietnamese (vi) Lão Tử		109
10	Dutch (nl) Laozi		106

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) Laozi		3
2	Persian (fa) لائوتسه		2
3	Romanian (ro) Lao Zi		2
4	Catalan (ca) Laozi		1
5	German (de) Laozi		1
6	Japanese (ja) 老子		1
7	Kazakh (kk) Лао-цзы		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Lao Zi		1
9	Tamil (ta) லாவோ சீ		1
10	Arabic (ar) لاوتزه		0

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

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