Painting

Quality:

Art of painting - practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface. Article “Painting” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Romanian 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 2303^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4653^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2737^th most popular in all topics.

The 1951^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2776^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Painting”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4653^rd place) and edited by 5075 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1951^st place).

The article is cited 1078 times in Simple English Wikipedia (445^th place) and cited 154577 times in all languages (746^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #397 in November 2014
• Global: #9 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #671 in September 2008
• Global: #961 in March 2008

There are 54 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	Romanian (ro) Pictură		89.765
2	English (en) Painting		89.2477
3	Catalan (ca) Pintura		82.4706
4	Bulgarian (bg) Живопис		78.1967
5	German (de) Malerei		76.3644
6	Esperanto (eo) Pentrarto		76.1505
7	Slovenian (sl) Slikarstvo		72.2273
8	Spanish (es) Pintura		68.4262
9	Galician (gl) Pintura		66.7995
10	Tamil (ta) ஓவியக் கலை		65.5156

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Painting		14 356 968
2	Spanish (es) Pintura		11 642 391
3	Indonesian (id) Seni lukis		3 852 356
4	Russian (ru) Живопись		3 355 557
5	Portuguese (pt) Pintura		3 078 053
6	German (de) Malerei		2 453 134
7	Persian (fa) نقاشی		2 070 387
8	Thai (th) จิตรกรรม		1 568 291
9	Japanese (ja) 絵画		1 501 381
10	Polish (pl) Malarstwo		1 224 736

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) Painting		25 284
2	Spanish (es) Pintura		7 823
3	Russian (ru) Живопись		4 637
4	Thai (th) จิตรกรรม		3 338
5	German (de) Malerei		3 121
6	French (fr) Peinture (art)		2 958
7	Japanese (ja) 絵画		2 873
8	Persian (fa) نقاشی		2 636
9	Chinese (zh) 绘画		2 543
10	Portuguese (pt) Pintura		2 279

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Painting		1 153
2	German (de) Malerei		382
3	French (fr) Peinture (art)		373
4	Spanish (es) Pintura		252
5	Russian (ru) Живопись		222
6	Dutch (nl) Schilderkunst		200
7	Italian (it) Pittura		195
8	Turkish (tr) Resim		165
9	Portuguese (pt) Pintura		146
10	Persian (fa) نقاشی		144

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) Pintura		7
2	English (en) Painting		3
3	German (de) Malerei		2
4	Czech (cs) Malířství		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Pentrarto		1
6	Persian (fa) نقاشی		1
7	Finnish (fi) Maalaustaide		1
8	Japanese (ja) 絵画		1
9	Polish (pl) Malarstwo		1
10	Russian (ru) Живопись		1

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

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