Voltaire

Quality:

Voltaire - French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778). This person is the 507^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 541^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Voltaire” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 2 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:

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The 4287^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3927^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 541^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1477^th most popular in all topics.

The 645^th most popular in AI.

The 507^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2345^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5938^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2114^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Voltaire” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2345^th place) and written by 44 authors in all languages (2114^th place).

Since the creation of article “Voltaire”, its content was written by 41 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3927^th place) and edited by 7484 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (645^th place).

Voltaire is on the 541^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 507^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 130 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 29237 times in all languages (5797^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #210 in September 2015
• Global: #231 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #898 in December 2025
• Global: #310 in February 2021

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	English (en) Voltaire		100
2	Indonesian (id) Voltaire		100
3	Italian (it) Voltaire		97.9546
4	Esperanto (eo) Voltaire		96.1045
5	German (de) Voltaire		91.8477
6	Catalan (ca) Voltaire		90.7085
7	Latin (la) Voltarius		89.2977
8	Dutch (nl) Voltaire		88.2151
9	Finnish (fi) Voltaire		85.7436
10	Romanian (ro) Voltaire		82.7191

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Voltaire		23 046 435
2	French (fr) Voltaire		18 847 236
3	Spanish (es) Voltaire		10 437 640
4	Russian (ru) Вольтер		4 038 788
5	German (de) Voltaire		3 524 690
6	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		3 387 896
7	Italian (it) Voltaire		2 609 908
8	Polish (pl) Voltaire		1 415 183
9	Japanese (ja) ヴォルテール		1 107 053
10	Swedish (sv) Voltaire		1 080 244

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) Voltaire		53 086
2	French (fr) Voltaire		28 714
3	Spanish (es) Voltaire		9 946
4	German (de) Voltaire		8 898
5	Russian (ru) Вольтер		7 222
6	Italian (it) Voltaire		4 184
7	Japanese (ja) ヴォルテール		3 835
8	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		3 639
9	Chinese (zh) 伏爾泰		2 742
10	Polish (pl) Voltaire		2 401

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Voltaire		1 789
2	French (fr) Voltaire		1 012
3	German (de) Voltaire		561
4	Spanish (es) Voltaire		402
5	Italian (it) Voltaire		364
6	Russian (ru) Вольтер		285
7	Dutch (nl) Voltaire		227
8	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		223
9	Hebrew (he) וולטר		171
10	Swedish (sv) Voltaire		165

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	French (fr) Voltaire		14
2	English (en) Voltaire		3
3	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		3
4	Serbian (sr) Волтер		3
5	German (de) Voltaire		2
6	Finnish (fi) Voltaire		2
7	Italian (it) Voltaire		2
8	Urdu (ur) والٹیئر		2
9	Arabic (ar) فولتير		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Volter		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