Silicon

Quality:

Silicon - chemical element with symbol Si and atomic number 14. Article “Silicon” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4703^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6137^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2957^th most popular in all topics.

The 3074^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5040^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6403^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Silicon”, its content was written by 32 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6137^th place) and edited by 4477 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3074^th place).

The article is cited 277 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 32069 times in all languages (5289^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #422 in November 2014
• Global: #120 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1193 in January 2026
• Global: #1923 in September 2011

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Arabic (ar) سيليكون		99.1304
2	English (en) Silicon		96.5002
3	German (de) Silicium		95.9129
4	Vietnamese (vi) Silic		88.041
5	Italian (it) Silicio		85.4307
6	Greek (el) Πυρίτιο		78.7162
7	Indonesian (id) Silikon		78.0285
8	Chinese (zh) 硅		71.6885
9	Tamil (ta) சிலிக்கான்		61.5897
10	Persian (fa) سیلیسیم		59.3474

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Silicon		16 907 790
2	Spanish (es) Silicio		6 051 964
3	Japanese (ja) ケイ素		4 705 798
4	Russian (ru) Кремний		4 529 878
5	German (de) Silicium		4 316 157
6	French (fr) Silicium		2 633 340
7	Portuguese (pt) Silício		1 753 862
8	Italian (it) Silicio		1 487 659
9	Polish (pl) Krzem		1 363 399
10	Chinese (zh) 硅		1 341 695

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) Silicon		28 167
2	German (de) Silicium		6 478
3	Japanese (ja) ケイ素		6 425
4	Russian (ru) Кремний		6 329
5	French (fr) Silicium		4 064
6	Spanish (es) Silicio		3 502
7	Chinese (zh) 硅		2 724
8	Korean (ko) 규소		1 784
9	Italian (it) Silicio		1 728
10	Polish (pl) Krzem		1 717

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Silicon		1 014
2	German (de) Silicium		466
3	French (fr) Silicium		279
4	Russian (ru) Кремний		200
5	Spanish (es) Silicio		191
6	Italian (it) Silicio		189
7	Japanese (ja) ケイ素		153
8	Dutch (nl) Silicium		143
9	Chinese (zh) 硅		136
10	Hebrew (he) צורן		92

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) Silicon		11
2	Spanish (es) Silicio		2
3	Estonian (et) Räni		2
4	Italian (it) Silicio		2
5	Polish (pl) Krzem		2
6	Czech (cs) Křemík		1
7	Basque (eu) Silizio		1
8	Indonesian (id) Silikon		1
9	Turkish (tr) Silisyum		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Кремній		1

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

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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