Vesak

Quality:

Vesak - Buddhist festival marking the birth of the Buddha. This event is the 568^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 398^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Vesak” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 398^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 568^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “Vesak”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1194 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Vesak is on the 398^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 568^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6874 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1208 in June 2016
• Global: #3161 in May 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4723 in May 2017
• Global: #919 in May 2018

There are 33 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	English (en) Vesak		85.8445
2	Thai (th) วันวิสาขบูชา		82.4547
3	Malay (ms) Hari Wesak		78.1798
4	Greek (el) Βεσάκ		72.2827
5	Russian (ru) Весак		58.6372
6	Chinese (zh) 卫塞节		55.4791
7	Esperanto (eo) Budha tago		47.5061
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Vesak		45.0689
9	French (fr) Vesak		39.2395
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đại lễ Vesak		38.5523

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Thai (th) วันวิสาขบูชา		5 181 207
2	English (en) Vesak		4 366 450
3	Indonesian (id) Waisak		806 647
4	Chinese (zh) 卫塞节		531 067
5	Malay (ms) Hari Wesak		354 736
6	German (de) Vesakh		349 474
7	Spanish (es) Vesak		281 315
8	Italian (it) Vesak		189 836
9	Japanese (ja) ウェーサーカ祭		176 872
10	Russian (ru) Весак		175 826

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) Vesak		17 953
2	Thai (th) วันวิสาขบูชา		13 507
3	Chinese (zh) 卫塞节		4 236
4	Malay (ms) Hari Wesak		1 583
5	Indonesian (id) Waisak		1 395
6	German (de) Vesakh		1 142
7	Japanese (ja) ウェーサーカ祭		848
8	Russian (ru) Весак		504
9	French (fr) Vesak		467
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đại lễ Vesak		287

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Vesak		519
2	German (de) Vesakh		103
3	Thai (th) วันวิสาขบูชา		71
4	Indonesian (id) Waisak		47
5	Chinese (zh) 卫塞节		47
6	Italian (it) Vesak		43
7	Russian (ru) Весак		41
8	Dutch (nl) Vesakha Puja		34
9	Spanish (es) Vesak		33
10	Swedish (sv) Vesak		31

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) Vesak		9
2	Basque (eu) Vesak		1
3	Japanese (ja) ウェーサーカ祭		1
4	Arabic (ar) فيساك		0
5	Catalan (ca) Vesak		0
6	Czech (cs) Vesak		0
7	German (de) Vesakh		0
8	Greek (el) Βεσάκ		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Budha tago		0
10	Spanish (es) Vesak		0

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

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