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Well-known or popular subjects on Wikipedia are often represented in many different languages, as shown by the language bar on the left side of such articles. Below are merely examples, not an all-inclusive ranking, of Wikipedia articles covered on at least 100 of the 353 Wikipedia sites that exist as of December 2024.
University of Milan created an engine of the complete yearly ranking of all Wikipedia articles for 2014–2021. [5] In 2013 the BBC published an article discussing most searched Wikipedia articles in 2012 in different languages. [6] Other versions of top-lists for shorter periods are regularly published and discussed by external popular media.
The guidelines for article titles for languages are at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages). In short, most language articles should be titled XXX language. Reasons for this recommendation: Ambiguity. While some language have special forms that refer unambiguously to the language, English is inherently ambiguous about language names.
The table below lists the featured articles for a given "foreign-" (i.e., non-English-)language Wikipedia initially sorted by the number of corresponding articles in other Wikipedias. The "Languages" column indicates the number of articles on all Wikipedias corresponding to the other-language featured article; the "#" column provides a ranking ...
Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history, [3] [4] and is consistently ranked among the ten most visited websites; as of August 2024, it was ranked fourth by Semrush, [5] and seventh by Similarweb. [6]
Most popular edition of Wikipedia by country. In grayed-out countries, the "national-language" edition is usually the most popular, but there are exceptions: for example, Afghanistan has Persian Wikipedia as the most popular (there is no Dari Wikipedia).
The title of an article should generally use the version of the name of the subject that is most common in the English language, as you would find it in reliable sources (for example other encyclopedias and reference works, scholarly journals, and major news sources). This makes it easy to find, and easy to compare information with other sources.
English Wikipedia is the most-read version of Wikipedia, [2] [3] accounting for 48% of Wikipedia's cumulative traffic, with the remaining percentage split among the other languages. [4] The English Wikipedia has the most articles of any edition, at 6,931,194 as of December 2024.