Edward Smith

Quality:

Edward Smith - captain of the RMS Titanic (1850–1912). This person is the 5567^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Edward Smith” in Danish Wikipedia has 9.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5567^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Edward Smith”, its content was written by 24 registered users of Danish Wikipedia and edited by 1857 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Edward Smith is on the 5567^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Danish Wikipedia and cited 1749 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Danish): #44 in June 2013
• Global: #547 in April 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Danish): #2729 in April 2012
• Global: #540 in June 2023

There are 40 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	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·约翰·史密斯		84.2021
2	English (en) Edward Smith (sea captain)		82.5527
3	Spanish (es) Edward Smith		80.0567
4	Portuguese (pt) Edward Smith		76.9413
5	French (fr) Edward Smith		61.1463
6	Thai (th) เอ็ดเวิร์ด สมิธ		60.7805
7	Dutch (nl) Edward John Smith		34.4005
8	Slovenian (sl) Edward J. Smith		32.9612
9	Italian (it) Edward Smith		31.7039
10	Galician (gl) Edward John Smith		30.3994

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edward Smith (sea captain)		7 250 633
2	Russian (ru) Смит, Эдвард Джон		1 232 802
3	German (de) Edward John Smith		1 231 373
4	Spanish (es) Edward Smith		1 215 877
5	French (fr) Edward Smith		903 786
6	Italian (it) Edward Smith		794 560
7	Japanese (ja) エドワード・スミス		693 154
8	Portuguese (pt) Edward Smith		497 138
9	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·约翰·史密斯		271 820
10	Dutch (nl) Edward John Smith		251 522

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) Edward Smith (sea captain)		44 249
2	German (de) Edward John Smith		6 978
3	Russian (ru) Смит, Эдвард Джон		4 903
4	French (fr) Edward Smith		3 741
5	Spanish (es) Edward Smith		2 980
6	Italian (it) Edward Smith		2 625
7	Japanese (ja) エドワード・スミス		2 436
8	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·约翰·史密斯		1 751
9	Turkish (tr) Edward Smith (gemi kaptanı)		1 712
10	Polish (pl) Edward Smith (1850–1912)		1 696

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Edward Smith (sea captain)		540
2	German (de) Edward John Smith		131
3	French (fr) Edward Smith		125
4	Italian (it) Edward Smith		117
5	Spanish (es) Edward Smith		89
6	Dutch (nl) Edward John Smith		82
7	Russian (ru) Смит, Эдвард Джон		62
8	Norwegian (no) Edward J. Smith		60
9	Finnish (fi) Edward J. Smith		45
10	Polish (pl) Edward Smith (1850–1912)		42

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) Edward Smith (sea captain)		4
2	French (fr) Edward Smith		2
3	Simple English (simple) Edward Smith (sea captain)		2
4	Arabic (ar) إدوارد جون سميث		1
5	Turkish (tr) Edward Smith (gemi kaptanı)		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Edvard Smit		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Едуард Джон Смит		0
8	Catalan (ca) Edward John Smith		0
9	Czech (cs) Edward J. Smith		0
10	Danish (da) Edward Smith		0

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

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