Edgar Allan Poe

Quality:

Edgar Allan Poe - American writer and literary critic (1809–1849). This person is the 279^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 378^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Edgar Allan Poe” in English Wikipedia has 98.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 186 references and 25 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 727^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1681^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 378^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 738^th most popular in all topics.

The 831^st most popular in AI.

The 279^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3681^st most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2680^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3792^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Edgar Allan Poe” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 33 authors in all languages (3792^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Edgar Allan Poe”, its content was written by 1643 registered users of English Wikipedia (1681^st place) and edited by 6820 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (831^st place).

Edgar Allan Poe is on the 378^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 279^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 3699 times in English Wikipedia (7156^th place) and cited 21003 times in all languages (7869^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #105 in November 2005
• Global: #131 in October 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17 in January 2023
• Global: #13 in January 2023

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) Edgar Allan Poe		100
2	German (de) Edgar Allan Poe		100
3	Swedish (sv) Edgar Allan Poe		100
4	Turkish (tr) Edgar Allan Poe		100
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Edgar Allan Poe		100
6	Bulgarian (bg) Едгар Алън По		98.9366
7	English (en) Edgar Allan Poe		98.444
8	Korean (ko) 에드거 앨런 포		98.1818
9	Italian (it) Edgar Allan Poe		97.8947
10	Polish (pl) Edgar Allan Poe		97.5067

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edgar Allan Poe		50 108 544
2	Spanish (es) Edgar Allan Poe		17 905 364
3	Russian (ru) По, Эдгар Аллан		6 013 075
4	French (fr) Edgar Allan Poe		5 019 804
5	German (de) Edgar Allan Poe		4 664 749
6	Italian (it) Edgar Allan Poe		4 276 433
7	Portuguese (pt) Edgar Allan Poe		3 615 240
8	Japanese (ja) エドガー・アラン・ポー		3 128 248
9	Polish (pl) Edgar Allan Poe		1 722 833
10	Czech (cs) Edgar Allan Poe		1 335 031

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) Edgar Allan Poe		125 423
2	Spanish (es) Edgar Allan Poe		34 032
3	Russian (ru) По, Эдгар Аллан		15 010
4	Japanese (ja) エドガー・アラン・ポー		11 699
5	French (fr) Edgar Allan Poe		10 330
6	German (de) Edgar Allan Poe		10 282
7	Italian (it) Edgar Allan Poe		9 092
8	Portuguese (pt) Edgar Allan Poe		6 012
9	Swedish (sv) Edgar Allan Poe		3 386
10	Polish (pl) Edgar Allan Poe		3 379

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Edgar Allan Poe		1 643
2	French (fr) Edgar Allan Poe		527
3	German (de) Edgar Allan Poe		491
4	Italian (it) Edgar Allan Poe		387
5	Spanish (es) Edgar Allan Poe		384
6	Russian (ru) По, Эдгар Аллан		308
7	Portuguese (pt) Edgar Allan Poe		198
8	Dutch (nl) Edgar Allan Poe		159
9	Swedish (sv) Edgar Allan Poe		158
10	Japanese (ja) エドガー・アラン・ポー		145

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) Edgar Allan Poe		6
2	German (de) Edgar Allan Poe		3
3	Spanish (es) Edgar Allan Poe		3
4	Korean (ko) 에드거 앨런 포		3
5	Azerbaijani (az) Edqar Allan Po		2
6	Greek (el) Έντγκαρ Άλλαν Πόε		2
7	Polish (pl) Edgar Allan Poe		2
8	Russian (ru) По, Эдгар Аллан		2
9	Ukrainian (uk) Едгар Аллан По		2
10	Bulgarian (bg) Едгар Алън По		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