Ferdinand Magellan

Quality:

Ferdinand Magellan - Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain. This person is the 778^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 877^th most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article “Ferdinand Magellan” in German Wikipedia has 82.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 50 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 3052^nd most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 2267^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 877^th most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2465^th most popular in all topics.

The 1085^th most popular in AI.

The 778^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 5057^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4576^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4592^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ferdinand Magellan” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 30 authors in all languages (4592^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Ferdinand Magellan”, its content was written by 472 registered users of German Wikipedia (2267^th place) and edited by 6197 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1085^th place).

Ferdinand Magellan is on the 877^th place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 778^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 374 times in German Wikipedia and cited 8359 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #114 in March 2019
• Global: #74 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #78 in August 2022
• Global: #734 in July 2022

There are 55 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	Spanish (es) Fernando de Magallanes		91.8182
2	Esperanto (eo) Fernão de Magalhães		87.1919
3	English (en) Ferdinand Magellan		83.907
4	German (de) Ferdinand Magellan		82.3082
5	French (fr) Fernand de Magellan		79.3528
6	Italian (it) Ferdinando Magellano		79.2079
7	Galician (gl) Fernão de Magalhães		77.3766
8	Portuguese (pt) Fernão de Magalhães		73.1017
9	Indonesian (id) Fernando de Magelhaens		67.8908
10	Japanese (ja) フェルディナンド・マゼラン		65.5917

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ferdinand Magellan		19 012 163
2	Spanish (es) Fernando de Magallanes		6 198 162
3	French (fr) Fernand de Magellan		5 635 561
4	German (de) Ferdinand Magellan		4 335 625
5	Russian (ru) Магеллан, Фернан		4 046 344
6	Polish (pl) Ferdynand Magellan		2 255 333
7	Japanese (ja) フェルディナンド・マゼラン		1 977 923
8	Italian (it) Ferdinando Magellano		1 844 008
9	Portuguese (pt) Fernão de Magalhães		1 746 166
10	Turkish (tr) Ferdinand Macellan		990 104

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) Ferdinand Magellan		67 904
2	French (fr) Fernand de Magellan		21 594
3	Spanish (es) Fernando de Magallanes		15 180
4	German (de) Ferdinand Magellan		12 361
5	Russian (ru) Магеллан, Фернан		9 805
6	Japanese (ja) フェルディナンド・マゼラン		8 167
7	Portuguese (pt) Fernão de Magalhães		7 321
8	Italian (it) Ferdinando Magellano		7 256
9	Chinese (zh) 斐迪南·麥哲倫		5 139
10	Polish (pl) Ferdynand Magellan		3 378

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ferdinand Magellan		1 293
2	German (de) Ferdinand Magellan		472
3	French (fr) Fernand de Magellan		444
4	Spanish (es) Fernando de Magallanes		368
5	Russian (ru) Магеллан, Фернан		241
6	Italian (it) Ferdinando Magellano		228
7	Dutch (nl) Ferdinand Magellaan		205
8	Polish (pl) Ferdynand Magellan		197
9	Portuguese (pt) Fernão de Magalhães		183
10	Hebrew (he) פרדיננד מגלן		164

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	Spanish (es) Fernando de Magallanes		6
2	English (en) Ferdinand Magellan		4
3	French (fr) Fernand de Magellan		4
4	Russian (ru) Магеллан, Фернан		4
5	German (de) Ferdinand Magellan		2
6	Korean (ko) 페르디난드 마젤란		2
7	Arabic (ar) فرناندو ماجلان		1
8	Basque (eu) Fernando Magallaes		1
9	Persian (fa) فردیناند ماژلان		1
10	Armenian (hy) Ֆեռնան Մագելան		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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information