Edwin L. Drake

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Edwin L. Drake

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Edwin Drake - American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States (1819-1880). Article “Edwin L. Drake” in German Wikipedia has 20.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Edwin L. Drake”, its content was written by 41 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 452 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 35 times in German Wikipedia and cited 375 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #1533 in August 2006
  • Global: #7374 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #8677 in August 2019
  • Global: #101065 in August 2009

There are 17 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Edwin Drake
42.0192
2Ukrainian (uk)
Едвін Дрейк
30.5436
3Esperanto (eo)
Edwin Drake
25.4668
4Persian (fa)
ادوین دریک
22.7955
5German (de)
Edwin L. Drake
20.5416
6Thai (th)
เอ็ดวิน เดรก
19.9951
7Czech (cs)
Edwin Drake
19.072
8French (fr)
Edwin Drake
18.7492
9Hebrew (he)
אדווין דרייק
12.7681
10Vietnamese (vi)
Edwin Drake
12.214
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Edwin L. Drake" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Edwin Drake
901 098
2Spanish (es)
Edwin Drake
128 590
3German (de)
Edwin L. Drake
99 045
4French (fr)
Edwin Drake
84 305
5Portuguese (pt)
Edwin Laurentine Drake
42 826
6Russian (ru)
Дрейк, Эдвин
38 198
7Italian (it)
Edwin Drake
32 401
8Dutch (nl)
Edwin Drake
11 242
9Czech (cs)
Edwin Drake
6 919
10Arabic (ar)
إدوين دريك
5 649
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Edwin L. Drake" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Edwin Drake
2 358
2Spanish (es)
Edwin Drake
255
3French (fr)
Edwin Drake
252
4Russian (ru)
Дрейк, Эдвин
156
5German (de)
Edwin L. Drake
127
6Italian (it)
Edwin Drake
106
7Portuguese (pt)
Edwin Laurentine Drake
74
8Arabic (ar)
إدوين دريك
50
9Czech (cs)
Edwin Drake
46
10Dutch (nl)
Edwin Drake
35
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Edwin L. Drake" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Edwin Drake
207
2French (fr)
Edwin Drake
44
3German (de)
Edwin L. Drake
41
4Italian (it)
Edwin Drake
30
5Spanish (es)
Edwin Drake
28
6Dutch (nl)
Edwin Drake
16
7Esperanto (eo)
Edwin Drake
15
8Russian (ru)
Дрейк, Эдвин
13
9Czech (cs)
Edwin Drake
12
10Hebrew (he)
אדווין דרייק
11
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Edwin L. Drake" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Russian (ru)
Дрейк, Эдвин
1
2Arabic (ar)
إدوين دريك
0
3Czech (cs)
Edwin Drake
0
4German (de)
Edwin L. Drake
0
5English (en)
Edwin Drake
0
6Esperanto (eo)
Edwin Drake
0
7Spanish (es)
Edwin Drake
0
8Persian (fa)
ادوین دریک
0
9French (fr)
Edwin Drake
0
10Hebrew (he)
אדווין דרייק
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Edwin L. Drake" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Edwin Drake
197
2German (de)
Edwin L. Drake
35
3French (fr)
Edwin Drake
33
4Spanish (es)
Edwin Drake
17
5Russian (ru)
Дрейк, Эдвин
16
6Italian (it)
Edwin Drake
13
7Arabic (ar)
إدوين دريك
10
8Dutch (nl)
Edwin Drake
10
9Esperanto (eo)
Edwin Drake
9
10Ukrainian (uk)
Едвін Дрейк
8
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
إدوين دريك
csCzech
Edwin Drake
deGerman
Edwin L. Drake
enEnglish
Edwin Drake
eoEsperanto
Edwin Drake
esSpanish
Edwin Drake
faPersian
ادوین دریک
frFrench
Edwin Drake
heHebrew
אדווין דרייק
itItalian
Edwin Drake
nlDutch
Edwin Drake
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Edwin Drake
ptPortuguese
Edwin Laurentine Drake
ruRussian
Дрейк, Эдвин
thThai
เอ็ดวิน เดรก
ukUkrainian
Едвін Дрейк
viVietnamese
Edwin Drake

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#8677
08.2019
Global:
#101065
08.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#1533
08.2006
Global:
#7374
07.2003

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Edwin Drake from Wikipedia articles about Petroleum, Titusville, Drake Well, Pennsylvania oil rush and John D. Rockefeller. Whereas reading the article about Edwin Drake people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Titusville, Drake Well, Samuel Kier, Petroleum and Freemasonry.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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