Tertiary

Quality:

Tertiary - obsolete term for the geological period 66–2.58 million years ago. Article “Tertiary” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Tertiary”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1123 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 45 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11441 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #782 in June 2013
• Global: #3630 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8367 in April 2016
• Global: #47727 in November 2008

There are 46 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	Malay (ms) Tertier		31.6167
2	English (en) Tertiary period		27.239
3	Slovak (sk) Terciér		26.9728
4	French (fr) Tertiaire (géologie)		26.2032
5	Japanese (ja) 第三紀		25.9775
6	Romanian (ro) Terțiar		25.1355
7	Belarusian (be) Трацічны перыяд		24.6353
8	Czech (cs) Terciér		23.6861
9	Indonesian (id) Tersier		23.0344
10	Kazakh (kk) Үштік кезең		21.9425

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Tertiär		1 218 288
2	Polish (pl) Trzeciorzęd		442 003
3	French (fr) Tertiaire (géologie)		378 563
4	Czech (cs) Terciér		358 587
5	Russian (ru) Третичный период		239 583
6	Japanese (ja) 第三紀		220 276
7	English (en) Tertiary period		176 241
8	Portuguese (pt) Terciário		175 032
9	Dutch (nl) Tertiair		172 246
10	Swedish (sv) Tertiär		143 631

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) Tertiary period		2 848
2	German (de) Tertiär		1 995
3	Swedish (sv) Tertiär		1 214
4	Russian (ru) Третичный период		1 115
5	French (fr) Tertiaire (géologie)		763
6	Czech (cs) Terciér		710
7	Polish (pl) Trzeciorzęd		701
8	Chinese (zh) 第三紀		429
9	Japanese (ja) 第三紀		332
10	Dutch (nl) Tertiair		309

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tertiary period		269
2	German (de) Tertiär		139
3	French (fr) Tertiaire (géologie)		74
4	Dutch (nl) Tertiair		54
5	Czech (cs) Terciér		52
6	Polish (pl) Trzeciorzęd		40
7	Danish (da) Tertiær		36
8	Russian (ru) Третичный период		36
9	Vietnamese (vi) Phân đại Đệ Tam		31
10	Japanese (ja) 第三紀		29

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	Arabic (ar) العصر الثالث		1
2	French (fr) Tertiaire (géologie)		1
3	Chinese (zh) 第三紀		1
4	Belarusian (be) Трацічны перыяд		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Терциер		0
6	Catalan (ca) Terciari		0
7	Czech (cs) Terciér		0
8	Danish (da) Tertiær		0
9	German (de) Tertiär		0
10	Greek (el) Τριτογενής περίοδος		0

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

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