Merchant

Quality:

Merchant - businessperson who trades in commodities that were produced by others. Article “Merchant” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Merchant”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1128 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 171 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 24961 times in all languages (6580^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #792 in January 2020
• Global: #9423 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5954 in November 2017
• Global: #21394 in February 2009

There are 41 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) Merchant		77.1557
2	Armenian (hy) Վաճառական		59.6263
3	Japanese (ja) 商人		46.2564
4	Hungarian (hu) Kereskedő		44.7699
5	German (de) Kaufmann		44.2822
6	Spanish (es) Comerciante		34.5631
7	Tamil (ta) வணிகர்		30.977
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Handelsmann		27.8536
9	Korean (ko) 상인		26.8467
10	Polish (pl) Kupiec		25.5931

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Merchant		3 045 343
2	Spanish (es) Comerciante		2 954 118
3	German (de) Kaufmann		1 191 133
4	Russian (ru) Купец		588 103
5	Japanese (ja) 商人		455 889
6	Indonesian (id) Pedagang		318 249
7	Persian (fa) بازرگان		197 058
8	Portuguese (pt) Mercador		195 610
9	Polish (pl) Kupiec		190 794
10	Arabic (ar) تاجر		162 217

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) Merchant		7 578
2	German (de) Kaufmann		1 965
3	Russian (ru) Купец		1 559
4	Spanish (es) Comerciante		1 438
5	Japanese (ja) 商人		1 400
6	Persian (fa) بازرگان		649
7	Indonesian (id) Pedagang		578
8	Simple English (simple) Merchant		575
9	French (fr) Marchand (commerce)		469
10	Turkish (tr) Tüccar		402

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Merchant		276
2	German (de) Kaufmann		129
3	Spanish (es) Comerciante		80
4	Russian (ru) Купец		72
5	Dutch (nl) Handelaar		57
6	Italian (it) Mercante		52
7	French (fr) Marchand (commerce)		45
8	Japanese (ja) 商人		44
9	Polish (pl) Kupiec		31
10	Hebrew (he) סוחר		28

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	German (de) Kaufmann		2
2	English (en) Merchant		2
3	Portuguese (pt) Mercador		1
4	Arabic (ar) تاجر		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Tacir		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Търговец		0
7	Danish (da) Købmand		0
8	Greek (el) Έμπορος		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Komercisto		0
10	Spanish (es) Comerciante		0

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

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