Matter

Quality:

Matter - substance that has rest mass and volume. Article “Matter” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.87 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 815^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 515^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3256^th most popular in all topics.

The 4400^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1392^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 5106^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Matter” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5106^th place) and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Matter”, its content was written by 112 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (515^th place) and edited by 3757 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4400^th place).

The article is cited 210 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16282 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3 in April 2013
• Global: #294 in October 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #39 in July 2011
• Global: #572 in September 2009

There are 53 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	English (en) Matter		90.3319
2	Spanish (es) Materia		82.7388
3	Korean (ko) 물질		55.5508
4	Portuguese (pt) Matéria		50.7897
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Materija		46.6269
6	Tamil (ta) பருப்பொருள்		40.7953
7	Catalan (ca) Matèria		39.0663
8	Slovak (sk) Hmota (fyzika)		37.8615
9	Italian (it) Materia (fisica)		36.4331
10	Arabic (ar) مادة		36.2122

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Materia		24 368 290
2	English (en) Matter		11 515 312
3	Portuguese (pt) Matéria		2 026 098
4	Russian (ru) Вещество		1 171 892
5	French (fr) Matière		1 139 324
6	Arabic (ar) مادة		1 107 274
7	Italian (it) Materia (fisica)		827 336
8	Turkish (tr) Madde		814 806
9	Hindi (hi) पदार्थ		775 515
10	Indonesian (id) Materi		685 995

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) Matter		43 191
2	Spanish (es) Materia		9 729
3	Russian (ru) Вещество		3 133
4	Simple English (simple) Matter		2 425
5	French (fr) Matière		1 972
6	Portuguese (pt) Matéria		1 618
7	German (de) Materie (Physik)		1 289
8	Japanese (ja) 物質		1 274
9	Thai (th) สสาร		1 071
10	Chinese (zh) 物质		1 020

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Matter		904
2	Spanish (es) Materia		389
3	German (de) Materie (Physik)		249
4	French (fr) Matière		198
5	Italian (it) Materia (fisica)		136
6	Russian (ru) Вещество		130
7	Turkish (tr) Madde		118
8	Simple English (simple) Matter		112
9	Hebrew (he) חומר		111
10	Portuguese (pt) Matéria		111

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	Arabic (ar) مادة		5
2	Spanish (es) Materia		2
3	Romanian (ro) Materie		1
4	Russian (ru) Вещество		1
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Materija		1
6	Simple English (simple) Matter		1
7	Tamil (ta) பருப்பொருள்		1
8	Belarusian (be) Матэрыя (фізіка)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Материя (физика)		0
10	Catalan (ca) Matèria		0

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

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