Lectern

Lectern - reading desk on which documents or books are placed as support for reading aloud. Article “Lectern” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.31 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Lectern”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 405 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1809 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1190 in May 2008
• Global: #24761 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #18069 in November 2010
• Global: #65901 in September 2012

There are 23 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, 2026 (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) Lectern		56.5412
2	Indonesian (id) Mimbar (Umum)		43.1633
3	Latin (la) Lectrum		35.8299
4	Chinese (zh) 講桌		26.1329
5	Basque (eu) Kantore (euskarria)		26.0091
6	Arabic (ar) مقرأ		25.0015
7	Swedish (sv) Talarstol		24.7648
8	Spanish (es) Atril		22.3556
9	Japanese (ja) 見台		20.2805
10	Korean (ko) 독서대		19.9151

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lectern" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lectern		986 575
2	Spanish (es) Atril		509 603
3	French (fr) Lutrin		217 496
4	German (de) Pult		125 547
5	Japanese (ja) 見台		114 662
6	Dutch (nl) Lessenaar		54 049
7	Swedish (sv) Talarstol		42 629
8	Portuguese (pt) Atril		30 629
9	Polish (pl) Pulpit (mebel)		22 369
10	Finnish (fi) Kateederi		16 182

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lectern" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lectern		2 195
2	French (fr) Lutrin		452
3	Japanese (ja) 見台		364
4	Spanish (es) Atril		242
5	German (de) Pult		211
6	Dutch (nl) Lessenaar		87
7	Portuguese (pt) Atril		82
8	Czech (cs) Pulpit		67
9	Swedish (sv) Talarstol		55
10	Chinese (zh) 講桌		55

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

Language versions of the article "Lectern" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lectern		128
2	German (de) Pult		52
3	French (fr) Lutrin		42
4	Dutch (nl) Lessenaar		32
5	Spanish (es) Atril		27
6	Japanese (ja) 見台		24
7	Hebrew (he) סטנדר		18
8	Polish (pl) Pulpit (mebel)		11
9	Swedish (sv) Talarstol		10
10	Czech (cs) Pulpit		9

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

Language versions of the article "Lectern" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lectern		2
2	Basque (eu) Kantore (euskarria)		1
3	Arabic (ar) مقرأ		0
4	Czech (cs) Pulpit		0
5	German (de) Pult		0
6	Greek (el) Αναλόγιο		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Libropupitro		0
8	Spanish (es) Atril		0
9	Persian (fa) میز خطابه		0
10	Finnish (fi) Kateederi		0

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

Language versions of the article "Lectern" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lectern		454
2	French (fr) Lutrin		422
3	Japanese (ja) 見台		405
4	Dutch (nl) Lessenaar		164
5	German (de) Pult		130
6	Spanish (es) Atril		90
7	Czech (cs) Pulpit		20
8	Polish (pl) Pulpit (mebel)		20
9	Portuguese (pt) Atril		20
10	Swedish (sv) Talarstol		17

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مقرأ
cs	Czech Pulpit
de	German Pult
el	Greek Αναλόγιο
en	English Lectern
eo	Esperanto Libropupitro
es	Spanish Atril
eu	Basque Kantore (euskarria)
fa	Persian میز خطابه
fi	Finnish Kateederi
fr	French Lutrin
he	Hebrew סטנדר
id	Indonesian Mimbar (Umum)
ja	Japanese 見台
ko	Korean 독서대
la	Latin Lectrum
nl	Dutch Lessenaar
pl	Polish Pulpit (mebel)
pt	Portuguese Atril
simple	Simple English Lectern
sv	Swedish Talarstol
uk	Ukrainian Пульпіт (меблі)
zh	Chinese 講桌

Best Rank

Simple English: #18069 11.2010

Global: #65901 09.2012

Best Rank

Simple English: #1190 05.2008

Global: #24761 09.2012

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