William Potts

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William Potts

Quality:

William Potts - Inventor of modern traffic light. Article “William Potts” in German Wikipedia has 14.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.76 points.

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

Since the creation of article “William Potts”, its content was written by 10 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 68 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in German Wikipedia and cited 11 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #4018 in August 2014
  • Global: #117151 in August 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #95655 in August 2014
  • Global: #548482 in February 2020

There are 3 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
1Polish (pl)
William L. Potts
26.0642
2English (en)
William Potts (inventor)
16.1865
3German (de)
William Potts
14.4933
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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 "William Potts" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
William Potts (inventor)
79 596
2German (de)
William Potts
6 055
3Polish (pl)
William L. Potts
1 638
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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 "William Potts" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
William Potts (inventor)
573
2German (de)
William Potts
24
3Polish (pl)
William L. Potts
9
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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 "William Potts" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
William Potts (inventor)
53
2German (de)
William Potts
10
3Polish (pl)
William L. Potts
5
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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 "William Potts" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Polish (pl)
William L. Potts
1
2German (de)
William Potts
0
3English (en)
William Potts (inventor)
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 "William Potts" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
William Potts (inventor)
5
2German (de)
William Potts
4
3Polish (pl)
William L. Potts
2
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
William Potts
enEnglish
William Potts (inventor)
plPolish
William L. Potts

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#95655
08.2014
Global:
#548482
02.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#4018
08.2014
Global:
#117151
08.2014

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on William Potts from Wikipedia articles about Traffic light, History of traffic lights, Bad Axe, William Potts and J. P. Knight. Whereas reading the article about William Potts people most often go to Wikipedia articles on J. P. Knight, Traffic light, Lester Wire, Bad Axe and History of traffic lights.

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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