Louis Braille

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Louis Braille - French organist and teacher (1809-1852), inventor of braille, a system for reading and writing text and music, used by people who are blind or visually impaired. This person is the 9163^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 513^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Louis Braille” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.57 points.

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 4277^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6112^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 513^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9760^th most popular in AI.

The 9163^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7257^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Louis Braille”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6112^th place) and edited by 2555 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9760^th place).

Louis Braille is on the 513^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 9163^rd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2523 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #214 in March 2007
• Global: #108 in January 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #672 in May 2019
• Global: #8139 in September 2019

There are 51 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, 2025 (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) Louis Braille		84.338
2	Spanish (es) Louis Braille		48.4005
3	Slovenian (sl) Louis Braille		41.1793
4	French (fr) Louis Braille		39.6855
5	Portuguese (pt) Louis Braille		39.0383
6	Galician (gl) Louis Braille		38.7619
7	Finnish (fi) Louis Braille		38.2231
8	Belarusian (be) Луі Брайль		36.5724
9	Urdu (ur) لوئی بریل		33.3568
10	Japanese (ja) ルイ・ブライユ		33.0919

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Louis Braille		3 576 064
2	Japanese (ja) ルイ・ブライユ		1 367 350
3	French (fr) Louis Braille		1 107 296
4	Spanish (es) Louis Braille		889 101
5	German (de) Louis Braille		593 574
6	Arabic (ar) لويس بريل		517 180
7	Portuguese (pt) Louis Braille		397 547
8	Russian (ru) Брайль, Луи		299 214
9	Hindi (hi) लुई ब्रेल		289 926
10	Italian (it) Louis Braille		205 551

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) Louis Braille		10 177
2	French (fr) Louis Braille		2 441
3	Japanese (ja) ルイ・ブライユ		1 960
4	Korean (ko) 루이 브라유		1 748
5	Spanish (es) Louis Braille		1 680
6	German (de) Louis Braille		1 666
7	Simple English (simple) Louis Braille		885
8	Russian (ru) Брайль, Луи		848
9	Portuguese (pt) Louis Braille		775
10	Italian (it) Louis Braille		589

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Louis Braille		639
2	French (fr) Louis Braille		240
3	German (de) Louis Braille		199
4	Spanish (es) Louis Braille		100
5	Italian (it) Louis Braille		98
6	Dutch (nl) Louis Braille		94
7	Norwegian (no) Louis Braille		63
8	Russian (ru) Брайль, Луи		61
9	Hebrew (he) לואי ברייל		59
10	Polish (pl) Louis Braille		56

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) Louis Braille		5
2	Spanish (es) Louis Braille		2
3	Italian (it) Louis Braille		2
4	Catalan (ca) Louis Braille		1
5	English (en) Louis Braille		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Louis Braille		1
7	Russian (ru) Брайль, Луи		1
8	Turkish (tr) Louis Braille		1
9	Arabic (ar) لويس بريل		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Lui Brayl		0

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

On 21 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Jeffrey Epstein, Alysa Liu, Eric Dane, 2026 Winter Olympics, Rebecca Gayheart, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Wuthering Heights, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, John F. Kennedy Jr..

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Manon Bannerman, Black, List of European countries, XXXTentacion, Jeffrey Epstein, Megan Skiendiel, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Katseye, List of people who have walked on the Moon, Golden Edge.

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