Edward Snowden

Quality:

Edward Snowden - American whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born 1983). This person is the 359^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 384^th most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article “Edward Snowden” in German Wikipedia has 94.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 338 references and 35 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 1217^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 1549^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 384^th most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 981^st most popular in all topics.

The 2510^th most popular in AI.

The 359^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 3565^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3284^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Edward Snowden” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Edward Snowden”, its content was written by 545 registered users of German Wikipedia (1549^th place) and edited by 4748 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2510^th place).

Edward Snowden is on the 384^th place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 359^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 386 times in German Wikipedia and cited 4770 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #2 in July 2013
• Global: #3 in June 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1 in July 2013
• Global: #12 in July 2013

There are 52 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) Edward Snowden		97.4899
2	Russian (ru) Сноуден, Эдвард		95
3	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·斯诺登		94.8037
4	German (de) Edward Snowden		94.6667
5	Armenian (hy) Էդվարդ Սնոուդեն		93.3333
6	French (fr) Edward Snowden		91.5905
7	Portuguese (pt) Edward Snowden		76.2301
8	Malay (ms) Edward Snowden		74.4562
9	Persian (fa) ادوارد اسنودن		72.9343
10	Japanese (ja) エドワード・スノーデン		70.7883

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edward Snowden		53 990 012
2	Russian (ru) Сноуден, Эдвард		8 266 059
3	German (de) Edward Snowden		6 816 554
4	French (fr) Edward Snowden		5 718 265
5	Spanish (es) Edward Snowden		4 736 775
6	Japanese (ja) エドワード・スノーデン		2 817 224
7	Italian (it) Edward Snowden		2 311 336
8	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·斯诺登		2 262 919
9	Portuguese (pt) Edward Snowden		1 922 714
10	Polish (pl) Edward Snowden		1 357 871

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 Snowden		117 424
2	Russian (ru) Сноуден, Эдвард		16 257
3	German (de) Edward Snowden		15 284
4	French (fr) Edward Snowden		11 194
5	Spanish (es) Edward Snowden		10 479
6	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·斯诺登		6 509
7	Japanese (ja) エドワード・スノーデン		6 314
8	Italian (it) Edward Snowden		3 486
9	Portuguese (pt) Edward Snowden		3 483
10	Polish (pl) Edward Snowden		2 916

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Edward Snowden		1 758
2	German (de) Edward Snowden		545
3	French (fr) Edward Snowden		358
4	Russian (ru) Сноуден, Эдвард		270
5	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·斯诺登		202
6	Spanish (es) Edward Snowden		178
7	Italian (it) Edward Snowden		128
8	Japanese (ja) エドワード・スノーデン		119
9	Portuguese (pt) Edward Snowden		95
10	Hebrew (he) אדוארד סנודן		82

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 Snowden		3
2	Azerbaijani (az) Edvard Snouden		2
3	German (de) Edward Snowden		2
4	Catalan (ca) Edward Snowden		1
5	Czech (cs) Edward Snowden		1
6	Greek (el) Έντουαρντ Σνόουντεν		1
7	Spanish (es) Edward Snowden		1
8	Estonian (et) Edward Snowden		1
9	Persian (fa) ادوارد اسنودن		1
10	French (fr) Edward Snowden		1

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information