May

Quality:

May - fifth month in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Article “May” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 7 sections.

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 2110^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6424^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9558^th most popular in all topics.

The 5291^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 366^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “May”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6424^th place) and edited by 3500 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5291^st place).

The article is cited 135 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 94708 times in all languages (1544^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #17 in March 2003
• Global: #137 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #78 in May 2022
• Global: #1526 in May 2023

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, 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) May		68.3358
2	Ukrainian (uk) Травень		52.3167
3	Simple English (simple) May		44.6317
4	Russian (ru) Май		39.3813
5	Spanish (es) Mayo		35.8565
6	Portuguese (pt) Maio		34.0898
7	Swedish (sv) Maj		32.452
8	Greek (el) Μάιος		32.3595
9	French (fr) Mai		32.3211
10	Finnish (fi) Toukokuu		29.9689

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) May		6 360 922
2	Spanish (es) Mayo		2 734 969
3	Japanese (ja) 5月		2 712 399
4	Russian (ru) Май		2 057 811
5	Arabic (ar) مايو		1 888 750
6	German (de) Mai		1 296 490
7	Portuguese (pt) Maio		1 291 033
8	Polish (pl) Maj		1 203 366
9	French (fr) Mai		1 007 555
10	Chinese (zh) 5月		707 442

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) May		28 984
2	Russian (ru) Май		7 003
3	Spanish (es) Mayo		3 620
4	Japanese (ja) 5月		3 454
5	German (de) Mai		3 152
6	Portuguese (pt) Maio		3 053
7	Persian (fa) مه (ماه)		1 890
8	Simple English (simple) May		1 875
9	Polish (pl) Maj		1 704
10	Chinese (zh) 5月		1 568

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) May		635
2	German (de) Mai		200
3	Spanish (es) Mayo		198
4	French (fr) Mai		163
5	Dutch (nl) Mei		148
6	Russian (ru) Май		137
7	Italian (it) Maggio		113
8	Hungarian (hu) Május		102
9	Portuguese (pt) Maio		100
10	Japanese (ja) 5月		90

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	Slovenian (sl) Maj		3
2	Czech (cs) Květen		2
3	German (de) Mai		2
4	Basque (eu) Maiatz		2
5	Persian (fa) مه (ماه)		2
6	French (fr) Mai		2
7	Arabic (ar) مايو		1
8	Bulgarian (bg) Май		1
9	Greek (el) Μάιος		1
10	English (en) May		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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