Sexual orientation

Quality:

Sexual orientation - enduring pattern of sexual attraction. Article “Sexual orientation” in Simple English Wikipedia has 76 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 88 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4513^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4299^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7271^st most popular in all topics.

The 4945^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4569^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 307^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7053^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Sexual orientation” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (307^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (7053^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Sexual orientation”, its content was written by 39 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4299^th place) and edited by 3613 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4945^th place).

The article is cited 195 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 20101 times in all languages (8576^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #307 in June 2026
• Global: #15 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1228 in July 2011
• Global: #3320 in June 2021

There are 53 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	Chinese (zh) 性取向		90.6764
2	Spanish (es) Orientación sexual		87.8058
3	Serbian (sr) Сексуална оријентација		84.1006
4	Vietnamese (vi) Xu hướng tính dục		81.1403
5	Turkish (tr) Cinsel yönelim		79.8424
6	Portuguese (pt) Orientação sexual		77.8614
7	English (en) Sexual orientation		77.5363
8	Simple English (simple) Sexual orientation		76
9	German (de) Sexuelle Orientierung		70.3606
10	Estonian (et) Seksuaalne sättumus		70.1538

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sexual orientation		12 035 179
2	Spanish (es) Orientación sexual		4 749 597
3	Persian (fa) گرایش جنسی		3 292 983
4	Russian (ru) Сексуальная ориентация		2 531 476
5	German (de) Sexuelle Orientierung		1 643 431
6	Japanese (ja) 性的指向		1 081 517
7	Portuguese (pt) Orientação sexual		987 550
8	Polish (pl) Orientacja seksualna		908 632
9	Italian (it) Orientamento sessuale		787 712
10	Chinese (zh) 性取向		731 361

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Persian (fa) گرایش جنسی		36 832
2	English (en) Sexual orientation		24 871
3	Russian (ru) Сексуальная ориентация		6 923
4	Japanese (ja) 性的指向		3 061
5	Spanish (es) Orientación sexual		2 772
6	German (de) Sexuelle Orientierung		2 746
7	Chinese (zh) 性取向		2 462
8	French (fr) Orientation sexuelle		1 764
9	Italian (it) Orientamento sessuale		1 525
10	Polish (pl) Orientacja seksualna		1 357

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sexual orientation		1 059
2	Spanish (es) Orientación sexual		257
3	German (de) Sexuelle Orientierung		246
4	Italian (it) Orientamento sessuale		182
5	French (fr) Orientation sexuelle		159
6	Russian (ru) Сексуальная ориентация		152
7	Hebrew (he) נטייה מינית		104
8	Japanese (ja) 性的指向		102
9	Portuguese (pt) Orientação sexual		98
10	Dutch (nl) Seksuele geaardheid		91

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	English (en) Sexual orientation		5
2	Indonesian (id) Orientasi seksual		3
3	Simple English (simple) Sexual orientation		3
4	Serbian (sr) Сексуална оријентација		3
5	Arabic (ar) توجه جنسي		1
6	Spanish (es) Orientación sexual		1
7	Estonian (et) Seksuaalne sättumus		1
8	Basque (eu) Sexu-joera		1
9	Persian (fa) گرایش جنسی		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Szexuális irányultság		1

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

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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.

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