Voltaire

Quality:

Voltaire - French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778). This person is the 496^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 567^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Voltaire” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 4667^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3660^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 567^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1473^rd most popular in all topics.

The 653^rd most popular in AI.

The 496^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2450^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4910^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4783^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Voltaire”, its content was written by 41 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3660^th place) and edited by 7375 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (653^rd place).

Voltaire is on the 567^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 496^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 131 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 28413 times in all languages (5808^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): #1130 in May 2011
• Global: #311 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, 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) Voltaire		100
2	Indonesian (id) Voltaire		100
3	Italian (it) Voltaire		98.5041
4	Esperanto (eo) Voltaire		96.4469
5	German (de) Voltaire		92.2854
6	Catalan (ca) Voltaire		88.2266
7	Dutch (nl) Voltaire		82.5082
8	Norwegian (no) Voltaire		81.0767
9	French (fr) Voltaire		80.4546
10	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		73.3245

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Voltaire		22 168 442
2	French (fr) Voltaire		18 401 220
3	Spanish (es) Voltaire		10 252 681
4	Russian (ru) Вольтер		3 553 599
5	German (de) Voltaire		3 366 632
6	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		3 314 073
7	Italian (it) Voltaire		2 507 362
8	Polish (pl) Voltaire		1 364 974
9	Japanese (ja) ヴォルテール		1 058 139
10	Swedish (sv) Voltaire		1 046 409

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		66 532
2	French (fr) Voltaire		36 823
3	Spanish (es) Voltaire		13 544
4	German (de) Voltaire		9 778
5	Russian (ru) Вольтер		8 540
6	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		5 903
7	Italian (it) Voltaire		5 598
8	Japanese (ja) ヴォルテール		4 328
9	Chinese (zh) 伏爾泰		3 560
10	Polish (pl) Voltaire		2 476

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Voltaire		1 761
2	French (fr) Voltaire		986
3	German (de) Voltaire		550
4	Spanish (es) Voltaire		392
5	Italian (it) Voltaire		360
6	Russian (ru) Вольтер		276
7	Dutch (nl) Voltaire		225
8	Portuguese (pt) Voltaire		221
9	Hebrew (he) וולטר		168
10	Swedish (sv) Voltaire		164

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		7
2	German (de) Voltaire		6
3	English (en) Voltaire		5
4	Spanish (es) Voltaire		5
5	Hebrew (he) וולטר		2
6	Turkish (tr) Voltaire		2
7	Croatian (hr) Voltaire		1
8	Italian (it) Voltaire		1
9	Serbian (sr) Волтер		1
10	Arabic (ar) فولتير		0

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information