Encyclopedia

Quality:

Encyclopedia - type of reference work. Article "Encyclopedia" in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 417th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 55th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 1764th most popular in all topics.
The 429th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 970th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
The 574th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 3201st most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 7749th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Encyclopedia" was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (574th place) and written by 27 authors in all languages (7749th place).

Since the creation of article "Encyclopedia", its content was written by 235 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (55th place) and edited by 8245 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (429th place).

The article is cited 195 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 17267 times in all languages (9246th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #2 in May 2003
  • Global: #12 in January 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #10 in October 2009
  • Global: #513 in April 2014

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 August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Enzyklopädie
100
2French (fr)
Encyclopédie
93.4898
3Esperanto (eo)
Enciklopedio
82.0141
4Basque (eu)
Entziklopedia
79.625
5English (en)
Encyclopedia
78.7109
6Chinese (zh)
百科全书
66.8348
7Catalan (ca)
Enciclopèdia
63.3391
8Italian (it)
Enciclopedia
57.226
9Latin (la)
Encyclopaedia
56.423
10Slovak (sk)
Encyklopédia
54.541
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Encyclopedia" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Encyclopedia
28 035 389
2Spanish (es)
Enciclopedia
7 370 903
3French (fr)
Encyclopédie
2 800 290
4Japanese (ja)
百科事典
2 723 712
5German (de)
Enzyklopädie
2 411 400
6Russian (ru)
Энциклопедия
2 387 207
7Portuguese (pt)
Enciclopédia
2 193 172
8Italian (it)
Enciclopedia
2 015 965
9Arabic (ar)
موسوعة
1 617 640
10Polish (pl)
Encyklopedia
1 615 991
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Encyclopedia" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Encyclopedia
147 426
2Indonesian (id)
Ensiklopedia
19 445
3Italian (it)
Enciclopedia
17 218
4German (de)
Enzyklopädie
12 413
5Japanese (ja)
百科事典
11 495
6Spanish (es)
Enciclopedia
7 463
7Korean (ko)
백과사전
5 577
8Portuguese (pt)
Enciclopédia
4 385
9Vietnamese (vi)
Bách khoa toàn thư
3 491
10Arabic (ar)
موسوعة
3 432
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Encyclopedia" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Encyclopedia
1 992
2German (de)
Enzyklopädie
634
3French (fr)
Encyclopédie
499
4Spanish (es)
Enciclopedia
385
5Italian (it)
Enciclopedia
340
6Dutch (nl)
Encyclopedie
294
7Russian (ru)
Энциклопедия
292
8Japanese (ja)
百科事典
258
9Simple English (simple)
Encyclopedia
235
10Hebrew (he)
אנציקלופדיה
232
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Encyclopedia" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Thai (th)
สารานุกรม
8
2Indonesian (id)
Ensiklopedia
6
3Italian (it)
Enciclopedia
3
4Simple English (simple)
Encyclopedia
3
5Hebrew (he)
אנציקלופדיה
2
6English (en)
Encyclopedia
1
7Basque (eu)
Entziklopedia
1
8French (fr)
Encyclopédie
1
9Romanian (ro)
Enciclopedie
1
10Russian (ru)
Энциклопедия
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Encyclopedia" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Encyclopedia
1 492
2Japanese (ja)
百科事典
1 184
3Persian (fa)
دانشنامه
1 103
4French (fr)
Encyclopédie
929
5Swedish (sv)
Uppslagsverk
911
6German (de)
Enzyklopädie
769
7Russian (ru)
Энциклопедия
759
8Hebrew (he)
אנציקלופדיה
623
9Italian (it)
Enciclopedia
601
10Spanish (es)
Enciclopedia
573
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in July 2024:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Authors in July 2024:
Simple English:
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Registered authors in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
موسوعة
azAzerbaijani
Ensiklopediya
beBelarusian
Энцыклапедыя
bgBulgarian
Енциклопедия
caCatalan
Enciclopèdia
csCzech
Encyklopedie
daDanish
Encyklopædi
deGerman
Enzyklopädie
elGreek
Εγκυκλοπαίδεια
enEnglish
Encyclopedia
eoEsperanto
Enciklopedio
esSpanish
Enciclopedia
etEstonian
Entsüklopeedia
euBasque
Entziklopedia
faPersian
دانشنامه
fiFinnish
Tietosanakirja
frFrench
Encyclopédie
glGalician
Enciclopedia
heHebrew
אנציקלופדיה
hiHindi
विश्वज्ञानकोश
hrCroatian
Enciklopedija
huHungarian
Enciklopédia
hyArmenian
Հանրագիտարան
idIndonesian
Ensiklopedia
itItalian
Enciclopedia
jaJapanese
百科事典
kaGeorgian
ენციკლოპედია
kkKazakh
Энциклопедия
koKorean
백과사전
laLatin
Encyclopaedia
ltLithuanian
Enciklopedija
msMalay
Ensiklopedia
nlDutch
Encyclopedie
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Leksikon
noNorwegian
Encyklopedi
plPolish
Encyklopedia
ptPortuguese
Enciclopédia
roRomanian
Enciclopedie
ruRussian
Энциклопедия
shSerbo-Croatian
Enciklopedija
simpleSimple English
Encyclopedia
skSlovak
Encyklopédia
slSlovenian
Enciklopedija
srSerbian
Енциклопедија
svSwedish
Uppslagsverk
taTamil
கலைக்களஞ்சியம்
thThai
สารานุกรม
trTurkish
Ansiklopedi
ukUkrainian
Енциклопедія
urUrdu
دائرۃ المعارف
uzUzbek
Ensiklopediya
viVietnamese
Bách khoa toàn thư
voVolapük
Sikloped
zhChinese
百科全书
zhminnanMin Nan
Pek-kho-choân-su

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#10
10.2009
Global:
#513
04.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2
05.2003
Global:
#12
01.2001

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Encyclopedia from Wikipedia articles about Wikipedia, Online encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopédie and Encyclopedia. Whereas reading the article about Encyclopedia people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Encyclopedia, American English, Reference work, Knowledge and British English.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Encyclopedia

News from 21 April 2025

On 21 April 2025 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Pope Francis, Benedict XVI, pope, John Paul II, list of popes, John Paul I, conclave, Vatican City, Prophecy of the Popes, Paul VI.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Pope Francis, List of popes by length of reign, Pope John Paul II, Pope John Paul I, Saint Peter, Adolf Hitler, Wikimedia Foundation, Pope Benedict XVI, AI Brainrot animals, Pope Urban VII.

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