Period (punctuation)

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Period (punctuation)

Quality:

Full stop - punctuation to signal the end of a sentence. Article “Period (punctuation)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 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:
The 2410th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 9708th most popular in all topics.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 5366th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 5264th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 7771st most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Period (punctuation)”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2291 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 31 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4747 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #349 in February 2017
  • Global: #1620 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #671 in June 2015
  • Global: #1297 in October 2012

There are 51 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Full stop
58.3762
2Italian (it)
Punto fermo
49.5547
3Ukrainian (uk)
Крапка
43.7219
4German (de)
Punkt (Satzzeichen)
38.0185
5Spanish (es)
Punto (puntuación)
35.8398
6Min Nan (zhminnan)
Chat-tiám
35.7377
7Chinese (zh)
句号
29.1031
8Estonian (et)
Punkt (kirjavahemärk)
25.2678
9Arabic (ar)
نقطة النهاية
23.837
10Malay (ms)
Titik
22.6446
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Period (punctuation)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Full stop
10 616 906
2Spanish (es)
Punto (puntuación)
5 721 154
3Russian (ru)
Точка (знак препинания)
1 670 079
4Chinese (zh)
句号
1 446 160
5German (de)
Punkt (Satzzeichen)
1 083 717
6Turkish (tr)
Nokta
932 737
7French (fr)
Point (signe)
819 584
8Arabic (ar)
نقطة النهاية
771 911
9Thai (th)
มหัพภาค
676 228
10Vietnamese (vi)
Dấu chấm
659 968
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Period (punctuation)" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Full stop
46 058
2Spanish (es)
Punto (puntuación)
35 911
3Russian (ru)
Точка (знак препинания)
10 980
4French (fr)
Point (signe)
10 771
5Vietnamese (vi)
Dấu chấm
9 860
6German (de)
Punkt (Satzzeichen)
6 217
7Chinese (zh)
句号
5 238
8Turkish (tr)
Nokta
5 056
9Thai (th)
มหัพภาค
3 511
10Polish (pl)
Kropka
3 108
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Period (punctuation)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Full stop
699
2German (de)
Punkt (Satzzeichen)
162
3Spanish (es)
Punto (puntuación)
160
4French (fr)
Point (signe)
129
5Russian (ru)
Точка (знак препинания)
102
6Italian (it)
Punto fermo
79
7Dutch (nl)
Punt (teken)
76
8Turkish (tr)
Nokta
69
9Chinese (zh)
句号
56
10Polish (pl)
Kropka
55
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Period (punctuation)" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Spanish (es)
Punto (puntuación)
10
2Greek (el)
Τελεία
3
3Norwegian (no)
Punktum
2
4Thai (th)
มหัพภาค
2
5Arabic (ar)
نقطة النهاية
1
6German (de)
Punkt (Satzzeichen)
1
7Croatian (hr)
Točka (pravopis)
1
8Japanese (ja)
終止符
1
9Romanian (ro)
Punct (semn de punctuație)
1
10Russian (ru)
Точка (знак препинания)
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Period (punctuation)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Point (signe)
663
2English (en)
Full stop
635
3Japanese (ja)
終止符
299
4Polish (pl)
Kropka
217
5Korean (ko)
마침표
215
6Chinese (zh)
句号
198
7German (de)
Punkt (Satzzeichen)
156
8Russian (ru)
Точка (знак препинания)
137
9Italian (it)
Punto fermo
134
10Danish (da)
Punktum
123
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
نقطة النهاية
azAzerbaijani
Nöqtə
bgBulgarian
Точка (препинателен знак)
caCatalan
Punt (signe)
csCzech
Tečka
daDanish
Punktum
deGerman
Punkt (Satzzeichen)
elGreek
Τελεία
enEnglish
Full stop
eoEsperanto
Punkto (interpunkcio)
esSpanish
Punto (puntuación)
etEstonian
Punkt (kirjavahemärk)
euBasque
Puntu (puntuazioa)
faPersian
نقطه (نگارش)
fiFinnish
Piste (välimerkki)
frFrench
Point (signe)
glGalician
Punto (puntuación)
heHebrew
נקודה (פיסוק)
hiHindi
पूर्ण विराम
hrCroatian
Točka (pravopis)
huHungarian
Pont (írásjel)
hyArmenian
Վերջակետ
idIndonesian
Tanda titik
itItalian
Punto fermo
jaJapanese
終止符
kkKazakh
Нүкте (тыныс белгісі)
koKorean
마침표
ltLithuanian
Taškas (skyrybos ženklas)
msMalay
Titik
nlDutch
Punt (teken)
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Punktum
noNorwegian
Punktum
plPolish
Kropka
ptPortuguese
Ponto final
roRomanian
Punct (semn de punctuație)
ruRussian
Точка (знак препинания)
shSerbo-Croatian
Tačka (znak)
simpleSimple English
Period (punctuation)
skSlovak
Bodka (interpunkčné znamienko)
slSlovenian
Pika
srSerbian
Тачка (знак)
svSwedish
Punkt (tecken)
taTamil
முற்றுப்புள்ளி
thThai
มหัพภาค
trTurkish
Nokta
ukUkrainian
Крапка
urUrdu
ختمہ
uzUzbek
Nuqta
viVietnamese
Dấu chấm
zhChinese
句号
zhminnanMin Nan
Chat-tiám

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#671
06.2015
Global:
#1297
10.2012

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#349
02.2017
Global:
#1620
06.2002

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Full stop from Wikipedia articles about Period, Slash, Comma, Punctuation mark and This Music May Contain Hope.. Whereas reading the article about Full stop people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Punctuation mark, English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Punctuation, Full stop and Proposition.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

zh: 句号
tr: Nokta
pl: Kropka
cs: Tečka
uz: Nuqta
sl: Pika
ms: Titik
zhminnan: Chat-tiám

News from 1 July 2026

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.

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