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Quality:

Russian - East Slavic language. Article “Russian language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 57 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 180th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 971st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 1688th most popular in all topics.
The 538th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 3630th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 2984th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 3815th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Russian language”, its content was written by 82 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (971st place) and edited by 7862 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (538th place).

The article is cited 3520 times in Simple English Wikipedia (99th place) and cited 1070018 times in all languages (72nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #11 in August 2016
  • Global: #64 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #16 in December 2018
  • Global: #745 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, 2025 (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
98.0982
2Latin (la)
Lingua Russica
92.5
3English (en)
Russian language
89.2488
4Esperanto (eo)
Rusa lingvo
87.0443
5Persian (fa)
زبان روسی
84.93
6Ukrainian (uk)
Російська мова
81.2492
7Estonian (et)
Vene keel
76.0516
8Turkish (tr)
Rusça
75.5934
9Portuguese (pt)
Língua russa
72.7
10Vietnamese (vi)
Tiếng Nga
71.4439
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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
22 384 223
2Russian (ru)
Русский язык
16 568 400
3Spanish (es)
Idioma ruso
3 835 519
4German (de)
Russische Sprache
3 368 971
5Japanese (ja)
ロシア語
3 334 136
6Polish (pl)
Język rosyjski
1 919 854
7Italian (it)
Lingua russa
1 771 588
8French (fr)
Russe
1 769 081
9Chinese (zh)
俄语
1 356 175
10Portuguese (pt)
Língua russa
1 311 708
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Russian language" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Russian language
95 198
2Russian (ru)
Русский язык
62 448
3Japanese (ja)
ロシア語
10 967
4German (de)
Russische Sprache
7 278
5Spanish (es)
Idioma ruso
7 185
6French (fr)
Russe
4 911
7Chinese (zh)
俄语
4 297
8Italian (it)
Lingua russa
4 279
9Ukrainian (uk)
Російська мова
4 027
10Polish (pl)
Język rosyjski
3 347
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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
1 627
2Russian (ru)
Русский язык
844
3German (de)
Russische Sprache
456
4French (fr)
Russe
363
5Italian (it)
Lingua russa
263
6Japanese (ja)
ロシア語
247
7Spanish (es)
Idioma ruso
239
8Dutch (nl)
Russisch
215
9Ukrainian (uk)
Російська мова
209
10Polish (pl)
Język rosyjski
194
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Russian language" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Русский язык
15
2English (en)
Russian language
5
3French (fr)
Russe
4
4German (de)
Russische Sprache
2
5Turkish (tr)
Rusça
2
6Bulgarian (bg)
Руски език
1
7Spanish (es)
Idioma ruso
1
8Italian (it)
Lingua russa
1
9Japanese (ja)
ロシア語
1
10Serbian (sr)
Руски језик
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
161 176
2English (en)
Russian language
108 858
3Russian (ru)
Русский язык
101 493
4Polish (pl)
Język rosyjski
65 872
5Armenian (hy)
Ռուսերեն
53 878
6German (de)
Russische Sprache
53 454
7Belarusian (be)
Руская мова
43 627
8French (fr)
Russe
36 122
9Italian (it)
Lingua russa
33 306
10Romanian (ro)
Limba rusă
27 011
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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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
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:
#745
04.2022

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#11
08.2016
Global:
#64
07.2012

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Russian from Wikipedia articles about Russia, Soviet Union, Cyrillic script, Russians and Belarus. Whereas reading the article about Russian people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Russia, East Slavic, Cyrillic script, Indo-European and Russians.

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

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