Louis Pasteur

Quality:

Louis Pasteur - French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895). This person is the 908^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 323^rd most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Louis Pasteur” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in German 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 2859^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1776^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 323^rd most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2937^th most popular in all topics.

The 1577^th most popular in AI.

The 908^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2920^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9822^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9874^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Louis Pasteur”, its content was written by 61 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1776^th place) and edited by 5460 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1577^th place).

Louis Pasteur is on the 323^rd place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 908^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 45 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10414 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #31 in May 2015
• Global: #106 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #298 in June 2010
• Global: #1193 in February 2008

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	German (de) Louis Pasteur		98.0952
2	English (en) Louis Pasteur		97.8741
3	Galician (gl) Louis Pasteur		97.5082
4	Russian (ru) Пастер, Луи		94.5021
5	Esperanto (eo) Louis Pasteur		92.381
6	French (fr) Louis Pasteur		92.1212
7	Chinese (zh) 路易·巴斯德		76.4771
8	Bulgarian (bg) Луи Пастьор		73.6323
9	Basque (eu) Louis Pasteur		66.7536
10	Volapük (vo) Louis Pasteur		61.5221

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Louis Pasteur		15 813 403
2	Spanish (es) Louis Pasteur		12 859 749
3	French (fr) Louis Pasteur		6 352 249
4	Portuguese (pt) Louis Pasteur		2 067 814
5	Turkish (tr) Louis Pasteur		1 976 857
6	Russian (ru) Пастер, Луи		1 957 005
7	German (de) Louis Pasteur		1 643 386
8	Italian (it) Louis Pasteur		1 436 459
9	Japanese (ja) ルイ・パスツール		1 341 875
10	Arabic (ar) لويس باستور		1 125 774

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 Pasteur		43 069
2	Spanish (es) Louis Pasteur		15 883
3	French (fr) Louis Pasteur		12 816
4	Russian (ru) Пастер, Луи		5 131
5	German (de) Louis Pasteur		4 696
6	Japanese (ja) ルイ・パスツール		4 688
7	Italian (it) Louis Pasteur		3 635
8	Portuguese (pt) Louis Pasteur		3 462
9	Chinese (zh) 路易·巴斯德		2 052
10	Korean (ko) 루이 파스퇴르		1 897

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Louis Pasteur		1 301
2	French (fr) Louis Pasteur		636
3	Spanish (es) Louis Pasteur		379
4	German (de) Louis Pasteur		317
5	Italian (it) Louis Pasteur		197
6	Russian (ru) Пастер, Луи		187
7	Turkish (tr) Louis Pasteur		167
8	Dutch (nl) Louis Pasteur		148
9	Portuguese (pt) Louis Pasteur		137
10	Hebrew (he) לואי פסטר		129

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) Louis Pasteur		7
2	Spanish (es) Louis Pasteur		2
3	French (fr) Louis Pasteur		2
4	Galician (gl) Louis Pasteur		2
5	Russian (ru) Пастер, Луи		2
6	Catalan (ca) Louis Pasteur		1
7	Czech (cs) Louis Pasteur		1
8	Kazakh (kk) Луи Пастер		1
9	Korean (ko) 루이 파스퇴르		1
10	Slovak (sk) Louis Pasteur		1

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

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