License

Quality:

License - set of permissions and restrictions to use something. Article “License” in Simple English Wikipedia has 32.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.69 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 “License”, its content was written by 37 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4671^st place) and edited by 1637 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 132 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 22294 times in all languages (7696^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #140 in October 2003
• Global: #426 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1034 in June 2010
• Global: #6483 in February 2009

There are 46 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) License		50.4859
2	German (de) Lizenz		43.5073
3	Czech (cs) Licence		40.6899
4	Polish (pl) Licencja (prawo)		35.6897
5	Catalan (ca) Llicència		34.9962
6	Indonesian (id) Lisensi		32.3581
7	Simple English (simple) License		32.0993
8	Estonian (et) Litsents		27.9566
9	Kazakh (kk) Лицензия		25.4801
10	Swedish (sv) Licens		24.0436

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) License		8 124 411
2	German (de) Lizenz		1 913 579
3	Russian (ru) Лицензия		1 549 929
4	Japanese (ja) ライセンス		1 251 785
5	Spanish (es) Licencia		812 862
6	Portuguese (pt) Licença		604 138
7	Polish (pl) Licencja (prawo)		546 285
8	Indonesian (id) Lisensi		526 442
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ліцензія		445 827
10	French (fr) Licence (juridique)		352 137

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) License		8 394
2	German (de) Lizenz		1 291
3	Russian (ru) Лицензия		1 225
4	Japanese (ja) ライセンス		870
5	Portuguese (pt) Licença		487
6	Indonesian (id) Lisensi		307
7	Czech (cs) Licence		286
8	Polish (pl) Licencja (prawo)		283
9	French (fr) Licence (juridique)		239
10	Italian (it) Licenza (economia)		218

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) License		467
2	German (de) Lizenz		236
3	Russian (ru) Лицензия		86
4	French (fr) Licence (juridique)		85
5	Japanese (ja) ライセンス		55
6	Polish (pl) Licencja (prawo)		45
7	Ukrainian (uk) Ліцензія		44
8	Dutch (nl) Licentie		41
9	Czech (cs) Licence		40
10	Hungarian (hu) Licenc		38

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	Azerbaijani (az) Lisenziya		2
2	English (en) License		2
3	Catalan (ca) Llicència		1
4	Spanish (es) Licencia		1
5	Swedish (sv) Licens		1
6	Thai (th) สัญญาอนุญาต		1
7	Arabic (ar) تصريح (قانون)		0
8	Belarusian (be) Ліцэнзія		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Лиценз		0
10	Czech (cs) Licence		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information