Ontology

Quality:

Ontology - study of the nature of being, becoming, existence or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations (philosophy). Article “Ontology” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 4 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 5339^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2824^th most popular in all topics.

The 7185^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Ontology”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3019 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7185^th place).

The article is cited 84 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 17004 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #187 in June 2008
• Global: #57 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #877 in May 2020
• Global: #1640 in February 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, 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) Ontology		89.9779
2	Japanese (ja) 存在論		86.4839
3	Portuguese (pt) Ontologia		81.8182
4	Spanish (es) Ontología		78.7143
5	German (de) Ontologie		55.5682
6	French (fr) Ontologie (philosophie)		52.2812
7	Italian (it) Ontologia		48.1649
8	Finnish (fi) Ontologia		47.9711
9	Catalan (ca) Ontologia		41.5039
10	Serbian (sr) Онтологија		39.7117

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ontology		19 119 690
2	Spanish (es) Ontología		10 482 185
3	German (de) Ontologie		4 643 722
4	Russian (ru) Онтология		4 114 021
5	French (fr) Ontologie (philosophie)		2 795 768
6	Portuguese (pt) Ontologia		2 267 029
7	Italian (it) Ontologia		2 244 095
8	Polish (pl) Ontologia		1 975 337
9	Indonesian (id) Ontologi		1 009 349
10	Turkish (tr) Ontoloji		974 214

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) Ontology		46 072
2	German (de) Ontologie		8 220
3	French (fr) Ontologie (philosophie)		6 655
4	Spanish (es) Ontología		6 413
5	Russian (ru) Онтология		6 055
6	Polish (pl) Ontologia		3 817
7	Italian (it) Ontologia		3 105
8	Chinese (zh) 本体论 (哲学)		2 866
9	Portuguese (pt) Ontologia		2 372
10	Japanese (ja) 存在論		1 912

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ontology		760
2	German (de) Ontologie		256
3	Italian (it) Ontologia		186
4	French (fr) Ontologie (philosophie)		183
5	Spanish (es) Ontología		175
6	Russian (ru) Онтология		105
7	Polish (pl) Ontologia		95
8	Dutch (nl) Ontologie (filosofie)		88
9	Turkish (tr) Ontoloji		80
10	Portuguese (pt) Ontologia		69

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	Japanese (ja) 存在論		2
2	Serbian (sr) Онтологија		2
3	Uzbek (uz) Ontologiya		2
4	Arabic (ar) علم الوجود		1
5	German (de) Ontologie		1
6	English (en) Ontology		1
7	Basque (eu) Ontologia		1
8	Persian (fa) هستی‌شناسی		1
9	Finnish (fi) Ontologia		1
10	French (fr) Ontologie (philosophie)		1

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

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