Louis Braille

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Louis Braille - French organist and teacher (1809-1852), inventor of braille, a system for reading and writing text and music, used by people who are blind or visually impaired. This person is the 9545^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 569^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Louis Braille” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.39 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 4580^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6105^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 569^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9545^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Louis Braille”, its content was written by 32 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6105^th place) and edited by 2564 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Louis Braille is on the 569^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 9545^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2541 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #218 in March 2007
• Global: #108 in January 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #674 in May 2019
• Global: #8161 in September 2019

There are 51 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) Louis Braille		85.4348
2	Spanish (es) Louis Braille		47.7635
3	Slovenian (sl) Louis Braille		41.0522
4	Portuguese (pt) Louis Braille		38.8902
5	French (fr) Louis Braille		38.8784
6	Galician (gl) Louis Braille		38.7956
7	Finnish (fi) Louis Braille		38.244
8	Belarusian (be) Луі Брайль		36.6102
9	Urdu (ur) لوئی بریل		34.978
10	Chinese (zh) 路易·布莱叶		32.652

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Louis Braille		3 717 283
2	Japanese (ja) ルイ・ブライユ		1 388 392
3	French (fr) Louis Braille		1 152 140
4	Spanish (es) Louis Braille		910 098
5	German (de) Louis Braille		619 964
6	Arabic (ar) لويس بريل		525 817
7	Portuguese (pt) Louis Braille		407 208
8	Russian (ru) Брайль, Луи		326 503
9	Hindi (hi) लुई ब्रेल		294 471
10	Italian (it) Louis Braille		213 759

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) Louis Braille		8 160
2	French (fr) Louis Braille		2 884
3	German (de) Louis Braille		2 330
4	Spanish (es) Louis Braille		1 360
5	Japanese (ja) ルイ・ブライユ		1 140
6	Russian (ru) Брайль, Луи		680
7	Portuguese (pt) Louis Braille		515
8	Italian (it) Louis Braille		430
9	Polish (pl) Louis Braille		395
10	Dutch (nl) Louis Braille		370

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Louis Braille		658
2	French (fr) Louis Braille		241
3	German (de) Louis Braille		201
4	Spanish (es) Louis Braille		101
5	Italian (it) Louis Braille		98
6	Dutch (nl) Louis Braille		96
7	Russian (ru) Брайль, Луи		64
8	Hebrew (he) לואי ברייל		62
9	Polish (pl) Louis Braille		57
10	Portuguese (pt) Louis Braille		53

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	Persian (fa) لوئی بریل		2
2	Dutch (nl) Louis Braille		2
3	Arabic (ar) لويس بريل		1
4	German (de) Louis Braille		1
5	English (en) Louis Braille		1
6	Thai (th) หลุยส์ เบรลล์		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Lui Brayl		0
8	Belarusian (be) Луі Брайль		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Луи Брайл		0
10	Catalan (ca) Louis Braille		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