Maize

Quality:

Maize - species of grass cultivated as a food crop. This taxon is the 24^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 32^nd most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Maize” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 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 782^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1544^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 32^nd most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1750^th most popular in all topics.

The 921^st most popular in AI.

The 24^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 1945^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4202^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4753^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Maize”, its content was written by 65 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1544^th place) and edited by 6551 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (921^st place).

Maize is on the 32^nd place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 24^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 249 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 51648 times in all languages (3071^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #40 in December 2020
• Global: #62 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #80 in July 2023
• Global: #186 in January 2014

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) Mais		100
2	Esperanto (eo) Maizo		94.9649
3	English (en) Maize		94.3029
4	Vietnamese (vi) Ngô		90.9691
5	Ukrainian (uk) Кукурудза		87.4371
6	French (fr) Maïs		85.5575
7	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		83.7408
8	Estonian (et) Mais		82.9599
9	Malay (ms) Jagung		82.0534
10	Portuguese (pt) Milho		76.1226

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Maize		26 716 135
2	Spanish (es) Zea mays		8 589 390
3	German (de) Mais		4 098 332
4	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		4 070 389
5	French (fr) Maïs		3 446 296
6	Russian (ru) Кукуруза		3 092 216
7	Portuguese (pt) Milho		3 002 057
8	Indonesian (id) Jagung		2 327 571
9	Italian (it) Zea mays		1 687 967
10	Chinese (zh) 玉米		1 374 700

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) Maize		79 161
2	Spanish (es) Zea mays		21 417
3	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		18 032
4	Russian (ru) Кукуруза		10 045
5	German (de) Mais		8 867
6	French (fr) Maïs		8 198
7	Portuguese (pt) Milho		6 151
8	Chinese (zh) 玉米		5 948
9	Italian (it) Zea mays		4 498
10	Korean (ko) 옥수수		4 317

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Maize		1 724
2	German (de) Mais		590
3	Spanish (es) Zea mays		441
4	French (fr) Maïs		421
5	Italian (it) Zea mays		240
6	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		228
7	Dutch (nl) Maïs		200
8	Portuguese (pt) Milho		195
9	Hebrew (he) תירס		148
10	Chinese (zh) 玉米		146

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	Spanish (es) Zea mays		6
2	German (de) Mais		5
3	French (fr) Maïs		3
4	English (en) Maize		2
5	Persian (fa) ذرت		2
6	Hindi (hi) मक्का (अनाज)		2
7	Japanese (ja) トウモロコシ		2
8	Dutch (nl) Maïs		2
9	Russian (ru) Кукуруза		2
10	Esperanto (eo) Maizo		1

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

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