Sun

Quality:

Sun - star at the centre of the Solar System. Article “Sun” in Simple English Wikipedia has 85.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 67 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.5 points.

This article has the best quality in Italian 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 279^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 65^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 220^th most popular in all topics.

The 99^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 493^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2770^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1132^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2082^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Sun” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2770^th place) and written by 45 authors in all languages (2082^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Sun”, its content was written by 245 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (65^th place) and edited by 12094 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (99^th place).

The article is cited 974 times in Simple English Wikipedia (552^nd place) and cited 345202 times in all languages (275^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #6 in September 2015
• Global: #18 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #78 in February 2015
• Global: #126 in March 2012

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	Italian (it) Sole		100
2	Ukrainian (uk) Сонце		100
3	Norwegian (no) Solen		100
4	Georgian (ka) მზე		100
5	Basque (eu) Eguzkia		100
6	Arabic (ar) الشمس		100
7	Portuguese (pt) Sol		99.6507
8	Catalan (ca) Sol		99.6052
9	Vietnamese (vi) Mặt Trời		99.3506
10	Romanian (ro) Soare		99.1236

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sun		53 956 852
2	Spanish (es) Sol		22 030 565
3	Russian (ru) Солнце		12 647 277
4	German (de) Sonne		10 544 955
5	Japanese (ja) 太陽		9 007 981
6	French (fr) Soleil		8 006 497
7	Portuguese (pt) Sol		6 771 510
8	Italian (it) Sole		5 405 756
9	Polish (pl) Słońce		4 664 878
10	Arabic (ar) الشمس		3 543 561

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) Sun		222 666
2	Russian (ru) Солнце		24 939
3	Spanish (es) Sol		21 499
4	German (de) Sonne		16 602
5	French (fr) Soleil		14 304
6	Japanese (ja) 太陽		13 270
7	Italian (it) Sole		7 669
8	Polish (pl) Słońce		7 185
9	Chinese (zh) 太阳		7 029
10	Portuguese (pt) Sol		6 493

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sun		2 590
2	German (de) Sonne		719
3	Spanish (es) Sol		677
4	French (fr) Soleil		664
5	Russian (ru) Солнце		593
6	Italian (it) Sole		514
7	Dutch (nl) Zon		454
8	Hebrew (he) השמש		319
9	Polish (pl) Słońce		305
10	Portuguese (pt) Sol		305

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) Sun		6
2	Japanese (ja) 太陽		5
3	Indonesian (id) Matahari		3
4	Russian (ru) Солнце		3
5	Slovak (sk) Slnko		3
6	Serbian (sr) Сунце		3
7	Ukrainian (uk) Сонце		3
8	Hungarian (hu) Nap		2
9	Polish (pl) Słońce		2
10	Thai (th) ดวงอาทิตย์		2

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

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.

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