Le Radeau de la Méduse

Quality:

The Raft of the Medusa - painting by Théodore Géricault. This painting is the 13^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of paintings and the 4^th most popular painting in French Wikipedia. Article “Le Radeau de la Méduse” in French Wikipedia has 93.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 185 references and 26 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 1584^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 2017^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 4^th most popular in paintings in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 13^th most popular in paintings.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 2898^th most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Le Radeau de la Méduse” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Le Radeau de la Méduse”, its content was written by 404 registered users of French Wikipedia (2017^th place) and edited by 1702 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Raft of the Medusa is on the 4^th place in local ranking of paintings in French Wikipedia and on the 13^th place in global ranking of paintings in all the time.

The article is cited 186 times in French Wikipedia and cited 1138 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #232 in October 2003
• Global: #3038 in April 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #116 in September 2014
• Global: #6517 in April 2009

There are 38 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, 2026 (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) The Raft of the Medusa		94.4505
2	French (fr) Le Radeau de la Méduse		93.6182
3	Vietnamese (vi) Chiếc bè của chiến thuyền Méduse		81.8542
4	Italian (it) La zattera della Medusa		76.088
5	Portuguese (pt) A Balsa da Medusa		75.3806
6	Galician (gl) A Balsa da Medusa		74.896
7	Serbian (sr) Сплав Медузе		70.6277
8	Azerbaijani (az) Meduza salı (rəsm)		69.1346
9	Japanese (ja) メデューズ号の筏		63.7476
10	Chinese (zh) 梅杜薩之筏		59.64

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) Le Radeau de la Méduse		4 985 739
2	English (en) The Raft of the Medusa		4 981 008
3	Italian (it) La zattera della Medusa		2 093 774
4	Spanish (es) La balsa de la Medusa		1 583 161
5	German (de) Das Floß der Medusa		702 485
6	Russian (ru) Плот «Медузы»		598 971
7	Japanese (ja) メデューズ号の筏		501 295
8	Polish (pl) Tratwa Meduzy		305 729
9	Dutch (nl) Het vlot van de Medusa (schilderij)		231 319
10	Portuguese (pt) A Balsa da Medusa		206 854

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) The Raft of the Medusa		18 718
2	French (fr) Le Radeau de la Méduse		15 431
3	Italian (it) La zattera della Medusa		9 353
4	German (de) Das Floß der Medusa		8 247
5	Spanish (es) La balsa de la Medusa		4 849
6	Japanese (ja) メデューズ号の筏		2 866
7	Russian (ru) Плот «Медузы»		1 984
8	Portuguese (pt) A Balsa da Medusa		1 552
9	Korean (ko) 메두사호의 뗏목		1 396
10	Chinese (zh) 梅杜薩之筏		1 190

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Le Radeau de la Méduse		404
2	English (en) The Raft of the Medusa		282
3	Italian (it) La zattera della Medusa		162
4	German (de) Das Floß der Medusa		153
5	Dutch (nl) Het vlot van de Medusa (schilderij)		75
6	Spanish (es) La balsa de la Medusa		71
7	Russian (ru) Плот «Медузы»		68
8	Hebrew (he) רפסודת המדוזה		35
9	Swedish (sv) Medusas flotte		35
10	Polish (pl) Tratwa Meduzy		33

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	English (en) The Raft of the Medusa		3
2	Serbian (sr) Сплав Медузе		2
3	Arabic (ar) طوافة قنديل البحر		1
4	French (fr) Le Radeau de la Méduse		1
5	Galician (gl) A Balsa da Medusa		1
6	Croatian (hr) Splav Meduze		1
7	Slovenian (sl) Splav Meduze (Géricault)		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Meduza salı (rəsm)		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Потъването на „Медуза“		0
10	Catalan (ca) El rai de la Medusa		0

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

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