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Quality:

Russian - East Slavic language. Article “Russian language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 54.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 33 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 184th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 998th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 1686th most popular in all topics.
The 543rd most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 2033rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 4390th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 5899th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Russian language”, its content was written by 84 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (998th place) and edited by 7908 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (543rd place).

The article is cited 3632 times in Simple English Wikipedia (99th place) and cited 1096550 times in all languages (72nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #11 in August 2016
  • Global: #63 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #16 in December 2018
  • Global: #746 in April 2022

There are 55 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
1Russian (ru)
Русский язык
98.0624
2Latin (la)
Lingua Russica
92.5
3Esperanto (eo)
Rusa lingvo
86.871
4English (en)
Russian language
85.7676
5Persian (fa)
زبان روسی
84.3109
6Korean (ko)
러시아어
84.1367
7Ukrainian (uk)
Російська мова
79.2614
8Turkish (tr)
Rusça
76.3472
9Portuguese (pt)
Língua russa
72.6032
10Estonian (et)
Vene keel
71.8019
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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 "Russian language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Russian language
23 282 504
2Russian (ru)
Русский язык
17 698 915
3Spanish (es)
Idioma ruso
3 918 839
4German (de)
Russische Sprache
3 469 947
5Japanese (ja)
ロシア語
3 460 370
6Polish (pl)
Język rosyjski
1 968 534
7French (fr)
Russe
1 832 986
8Italian (it)
Lingua russa
1 823 526
9Chinese (zh)
俄语
1 471 157
10Portuguese (pt)
Língua russa
1 341 956
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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 "Russian language" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Russian language
67 311
2Russian (ru)
Русский язык
38 830
3Japanese (ja)
ロシア語
8 835
4German (de)
Russische Sprache
7 399
5Spanish (es)
Idioma ruso
6 016
6French (fr)
Russe
4 405
7Italian (it)
Lingua russa
3 515
8Chinese (zh)
俄语
3 444
9Polish (pl)
Język rosyjski
3 290
10Ukrainian (uk)
Російська мова
2 933
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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 "Russian language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Russian language
1 663
2Russian (ru)
Русский язык
860
3German (de)
Russische Sprache
465
4French (fr)
Russe
369
5Italian (it)
Lingua russa
275
6Japanese (ja)
ロシア語
254
7Spanish (es)
Idioma ruso
246
8Dutch (nl)
Russisch
217
9Ukrainian (uk)
Російська мова
215
10Polish (pl)
Język rosyjski
200
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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 "Russian language" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Russian language
5
2Ukrainian (uk)
Російська мова
3
3Catalan (ca)
Rus
2
4Basque (eu)
Errusiera
2
5Persian (fa)
زبان روسی
2
6Finnish (fi)
Venäjän kieli
2
7Polish (pl)
Język rosyjski
2
8French (fr)
Russe
1
9Korean (ko)
러시아어
1
10Russian (ru)
Русский язык
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 "Russian language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Ukrainian (uk)
Російська мова
162 950
2English (en)
Russian language
106 066
3Russian (ru)
Русский язык
102 538
4Polish (pl)
Język rosyjski
69 616
5German (de)
Russische Sprache
54 860
6Armenian (hy)
Ռուսերեն
54 469
7Belarusian (be)
Руская мова
44 899
8French (fr)
Russe
37 756
9Italian (it)
Lingua russa
34 502
10Spanish (es)
Idioma ruso
28 029
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in June 2026:
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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اللغة الروسية
azAzerbaijani
Rus dili
beBelarusian
Руская мова
bgBulgarian
Руски език
caCatalan
Rus
csCzech
Ruština
daDanish
Russisk (sprog)
deGerman
Russische Sprache
elGreek
Ρωσική γλώσσα
enEnglish
Russian language
eoEsperanto
Rusa lingvo
esSpanish
Idioma ruso
etEstonian
Vene keel
euBasque
Errusiera
faPersian
زبان روسی
fiFinnish
Venäjän kieli
frFrench
Russe
glGalician
Lingua rusa
heHebrew
רוסית
hiHindi
रूसी भाषा
hrCroatian
Ruski jezik
huHungarian
Orosz nyelv
hyArmenian
Ռուսերեն
idIndonesian
Bahasa Rusia
itItalian
Lingua russa
jaJapanese
ロシア語
kaGeorgian
რუსული ენა
kkKazakh
Орыс тілі
koKorean
러시아어
laLatin
Lingua Russica
ltLithuanian
Rusų kalba
msMalay
Bahasa Rusia
nlDutch
Russisch
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Russisk
noNorwegian
Russisk
plPolish
Język rosyjski
ptPortuguese
Língua russa
roRomanian
Limba rusă
ruRussian
Русский язык
shSerbo-Croatian
Ruski jezik
simpleSimple English
Russian language
skSlovak
Ruština
slSlovenian
Ruščina
srSerbian
Руски језик
svSwedish
Ryska
taTamil
உருசிய மொழி
thThai
ภาษารัสเซีย
trTurkish
Rusça
ukUkrainian
Російська мова
urUrdu
روسی زبان
uzUzbek
Rus tili
viVietnamese
Tiếng Nga
voVolapük
Rusänapük
zhChinese
俄语
zhminnanMin Nan
Lō͘-se-a-gí

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#16
12.2018
Global:
#746
04.2022

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#11
08.2016
Global:
#63
11.2009

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 Russian from Wikipedia articles about Russia, Soviet Union, Cyrillic script, Russians and Kazakhstan. Whereas reading the article about Russian people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Russia, East Slavic, Cyrillic script, Russians and Russian alphabet.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

fr: Russe
zh: 俄语
tr: Rusça
sv: Ryska
ca: Rus
zhminnan: Lō͘-se-a-gí

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.

About WikiRank

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