Pastel

Pastel - painting or drawing material to color a painting surface. Article “Pastel” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Polish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Pastel”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1178 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7712 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #187 in October 2023
• Global: #7544 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #11678 in January 2026
• Global: #17403 in March 2013

There are 44 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	Polish (pl) Pastel		67.2411
2	English (en) Pastel		62.0094
3	Slovenian (sl) Pastel (tehnika slikanja)		50.4331
4	Portuguese (pt) Pastel (arte)		45.5236
5	Indonesian (id) Pastel		44.5747
6	Finnish (fi) Pastellimaalaus		39.8826
7	Estonian (et) Pastell		38.4002
8	Ukrainian (uk) Пастель		33.1134
9	French (fr) Pastel		30.4603
10	Esperanto (eo) Paŝtelo		28.4839

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Pastel" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pastel		2 887 321
2	Spanish (es) Pastel (técnica)		1 127 204
3	Russian (ru) Пастель		1 109 095
4	French (fr) Pastel		810 630
5	Japanese (ja) パステル		800 006
6	Romanian (ro) Pastel		693 941
7	German (de) Pastellmalerei		563 745
8	Polish (pl) Pastel		278 908
9	Italian (it) Pastello		266 169
10	Arabic (ar) باستيل		205 791

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Pastel" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pastel		4 639
2	French (fr) Pastel		1 489
3	Russian (ru) Пастель		1 439
4	Japanese (ja) パステル		973
5	German (de) Pastellmalerei		906
6	Romanian (ro) Pastel		718
7	Spanish (es) Pastel (técnica)		584
8	Persian (fa) پاستل		433
9	Chinese (zh) 粉彩 (颜料)		385
10	Polish (pl) Pastel		327

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

Language versions of the article "Pastel" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pastel		197
2	French (fr) Pastel		118
3	German (de) Pastellmalerei		84
4	Italian (it) Pastello		75
5	Russian (ru) Пастель		75
6	Spanish (es) Pastel (técnica)		64
7	Romanian (ro) Pastel		41
8	Dutch (nl) Pastelkrijt		39
9	Danish (da) Pastelmaleri		37
10	Polish (pl) Pastel		37

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

Language versions of the article "Pastel" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Pastello		2
2	English (en) Pastel		1
3	Arabic (ar) باستيل		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Pastel		0
5	Belarusian (be) Пастэль		0
6	Catalan (ca) Pintura al pastel		0
7	Czech (cs) Pastel (křída)		0
8	Danish (da) Pastelmaleri		0
9	German (de) Pastellmalerei		0
10	Greek (el) Παστέλ		0

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

Language versions of the article "Pastel" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Pastel		1 378
2	English (en) Pastel		881
3	German (de) Pastellmalerei		805
4	Swedish (sv) Pastell		695
5	Russian (ru) Пастель		477
6	Ukrainian (uk) Пастель		368
7	Japanese (ja) パステル		306
8	Polish (pl) Pastel		242
9	Spanish (es) Pastel (técnica)		233
10	Italian (it) Pastello		227

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic باستيل
az	Azerbaijani Pastel
be	Belarusian Пастэль
ca	Catalan Pintura al pastel
cs	Czech Pastel (křída)
da	Danish Pastelmaleri
de	German Pastellmalerei
el	Greek Παστέλ
en	English Pastel
eo	Esperanto Paŝtelo
es	Spanish Pastel (técnica)
et	Estonian Pastell
eu	Basque Pastel (pintura)
fa	Persian پاستل
fi	Finnish Pastellimaalaus
fr	French Pastel
gl	Galician Pastel (arte)
he	Hebrew פסטל
hr	Croatian Pastel
hu	Hungarian Pasztell
hy	Armenian Պաստել
id	Indonesian Pastel
it	Italian Pastello
ja	Japanese パステル
kk	Kazakh Пастель
ko	Korean 파스텔
la	Latin Xerographia
lt	Lithuanian Pastelė
nl	Dutch Pastelkrijt
no	Norwegian Pastell
pl	Polish Pastel
pt	Portuguese Pastel (arte)
ro	Romanian Pastel
ru	Russian Пастель
sh	Serbo-Croatian Pastel
simple	Simple English Pastel
sl	Slovenian Pastel (tehnika slikanja)
sr	Serbian Пастел
sv	Swedish Pastell
tr	Turkish Pastel boya
uk	Ukrainian Пастель
uz	Uzbek Pastel
vi	Vietnamese Phấn tiên
zh	Chinese 粉彩 (颜料)

Best Rank

Simple English: #11678 01.2026

Global: #17403 03.2013

Best Rank

Simple English: #187 10.2023

Global: #7544 12.2002

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