Merchant

Quality:

Merchant - businessperson who trades in commodities that were produced by others. Article “Merchant” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Merchant”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1151 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 178 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 27564 times in all languages (6139^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #791 in January 2020
• Global: #9429 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5965 in November 2017
• Global: #21074 in February 2009

There are 42 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) Merchant		73.9645
2	Armenian (hy) Վաճառական		59.5185
3	Japanese (ja) 商人		45.9656
4	Hungarian (hu) Kereskedő		44.7055
5	German (de) Kaufmann		43.7498
6	French (fr) Marchand (commerce)		34.2803
7	Spanish (es) Comerciante		33.9925
8	Tamil (ta) வணிகர்		30.8924
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Handelsmann		27.8536
10	Korean (ko) 상인		26.7609

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Merchant		3 137 856
2	Spanish (es) Comerciante		2 969 394
3	German (de) Kaufmann		1 212 642
4	Russian (ru) Купец		666 484
5	Japanese (ja) 商人		471 083
6	Indonesian (id) Pedagang		323 000
7	Persian (fa) بازرگان		206 682
8	Portuguese (pt) Mercador		199 682
9	Polish (pl) Kupiec		195 313
10	Arabic (ar) تاجر		165 434

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) Merchant		6 155
2	German (de) Kaufmann		1 331
3	Russian (ru) Купец		1 171
4	Japanese (ja) 商人		966
5	Spanish (es) Comerciante		696
6	Persian (fa) بازرگان		608
7	French (fr) Marchand (commerce)		423
8	Polish (pl) Kupiec		305
9	Turkish (tr) Tüccar		270
10	Portuguese (pt) Mercador		205

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Merchant		288
2	German (de) Kaufmann		129
3	Spanish (es) Comerciante		81
4	Russian (ru) Купец		74
5	Dutch (nl) Handelaar		57
6	Italian (it) Mercante		52
7	French (fr) Marchand (commerce)		48
8	Japanese (ja) 商人		46
9	Polish (pl) Kupiec		31
10	Hebrew (he) סוחר		28

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) Merchant		3
2	Romanian (ro) Comerciant		1
3	Russian (ru) Купец		1
4	Arabic (ar) تاجر		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Tacir		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Търговец		0
7	Danish (da) Købmand		0
8	German (de) Kaufmann		0
9	Greek (el) Έμπορος		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Komercisto		0

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

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