Public domain

Quality:

Public domain - no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Article “Public domain” in Simple English Wikipedia has 8.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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 5305^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 7294^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6794^th most popular in all topics.

The 4041^st most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Public domain”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7294^th place) and edited by 3958 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4041^st place).

The article is cited 294 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 159467 times in all languages (740^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #324 in May 2014
• Global: #378 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #50 in August 2011
• Global: #867 in August 2011

There are 52 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) Public domain		85.3828
2	Min Nan (zhminnan) Kong-iú líng-i̍k		60.2808
3	Turkish (tr) Kamu malı		52.5705
4	German (de) Gemeinfreiheit		46.0783
5	Portuguese (pt) Domínio público		45.2198
6	Bulgarian (bg) Обществено достояние		43.2015
7	Italian (it) Pubblico dominio		40.3183
8	Catalan (ca) Domini públic		39.9576
9	Chinese (zh) 公有领域		35.4823
10	Polish (pl) Domena publiczna		32.0892

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Public domain		19 760 992
2	Japanese (ja) パブリックドメイン		2 471 109
3	German (de) Gemeinfreiheit		2 100 851
4	Spanish (es) Dominio público		1 885 823
5	Russian (ru) Общественное достояние		1 042 809
6	Polish (pl) Domena publiczna		1 037 405
7	French (fr) Domaine public (propriété intellectuelle)		978 914
8	Portuguese (pt) Domínio público		884 489
9	Chinese (zh) 公有领域		703 044
10	Italian (it) Pubblico dominio		566 051

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) Public domain		45 412
2	Japanese (ja) パブリックドメイン		5 614
3	German (de) Gemeinfreiheit		3 045
4	Chinese (zh) 公有领域		2 373
5	Spanish (es) Dominio público		1 880
6	Russian (ru) Общественное достояние		1 671
7	French (fr) Domaine public (propriété intellectuelle)		1 638
8	Polish (pl) Domena publiczna		1 290
9	Portuguese (pt) Domínio público		1 243
10	Italian (it) Pubblico dominio		816

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Public domain		1 355
2	German (de) Gemeinfreiheit		297
3	Spanish (es) Dominio público		207
4	Italian (it) Pubblico dominio		158
5	Russian (ru) Общественное достояние		130
6	Chinese (zh) 公有领域		127
7	Portuguese (pt) Domínio público		123
8	French (fr) Domaine public (propriété intellectuelle)		113
9	Polish (pl) Domena publiczna		101
10	Dutch (nl) Publiek domein		94

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	Arabic (ar) ملكية عامة		3
2	English (en) Public domain		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) İctimai mülkiyyət		1
4	Catalan (ca) Domini públic		1
5	Basque (eu) Jabari publiko		1
6	Polish (pl) Domena publiczna		1
7	Russian (ru) Общественное достояние		1
8	Turkish (tr) Kamu malı		1
9	Belarusian (be) Грамадскі набытак		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Обществено достояние		0

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

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