Painting

Quality:

Painting - practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface. Article “Painting” in Simple English Wikipedia has 20.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 2 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 2311^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3922^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2860^th most popular in all topics.

The 1943^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8032^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5897^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Painting”, its content was written by 41 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3922^nd place) and edited by 5134 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1943^rd place).

The article is cited 1097 times in Simple English Wikipedia (474^th place) and cited 164681 times in all languages (718^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #283 in February 2026
• Global: #10 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #671 in September 2008
• Global: #965 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, 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) Painting		88.9137
2	Romanian (ro) Pictură		88.9033
3	Catalan (ca) Pintura		82.5435
4	German (de) Malerei		76.1071
5	Esperanto (eo) Pentrarto		75.7972
6	Slovenian (sl) Slikarstvo		71.9062
7	Bulgarian (bg) Живопис		70.6441
8	Galician (gl) Pintura		68.6369
9	Spanish (es) Pintura		67.522
10	Tamil (ta) ஓவியக் கலை		64.6669

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Painting		14 652 348
2	Spanish (es) Pintura		11 699 318
3	Indonesian (id) Seni lukis		3 868 399
4	Russian (ru) Живопись		3 842 389
5	Portuguese (pt) Pintura		3 103 065
6	German (de) Malerei		2 455 355
7	Persian (fa) نقاشی		2 101 178
8	Japanese (ja) 絵画		1 672 250
9	Thai (th) จิตรกรรม		1 563 399
10	Polish (pl) Malarstwo		1 239 216

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		21 237
2	Spanish (es) Pintura		4 064
3	Persian (fa) نقاشی		3 864
4	German (de) Malerei		3 568
5	Russian (ru) Живопись		3 275
6	Japanese (ja) 絵画		2 875
7	French (fr) Peinture (art)		2 210
8	Turkish (tr) Resim		1 835
9	Chinese (zh) 绘画		1 800
10	Portuguese (pt) Pintura		1 522

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Painting		1 183
2	German (de) Malerei		383
3	French (fr) Peinture (art)		377
4	Spanish (es) Pintura		256
5	Russian (ru) Живопись		226
6	Dutch (nl) Schilderkunst		202
7	Italian (it) Pittura		196
8	Turkish (tr) Resim		169
9	Persian (fa) نقاشی		152
10	Hebrew (he) ציור		147

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) Painting		12
2	Galician (gl) Pintura		2
3	Catalan (ca) Pintura		1
4	German (de) Malerei		1
5	Greek (el) Ζωγραφική		1
6	Esperanto (eo) Pentrarto		1
7	Basque (eu) Margolaritza		1
8	Persian (fa) نقاشی		1
9	Hebrew (he) ציור		1
10	Italian (it) Pittura		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