Edward Colston

Quality:

Edward Colston - English merchant, slave trader and philanthropist (1636–1721). Article “Edward Colston” in English Wikipedia has 76.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 76 references and 10 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Edward Colston” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Edward Colston”, its content was written by 321 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 583 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 88 times in English Wikipedia and cited 187 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10 in June 2020
• Global: #12 in June 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16 in June 2020
• Global: #27 in June 2020

There are 19 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	English (en) Edward Colston		76.1272
2	German (de) Edward Colston		50.1649
3	Hebrew (he) אדוורד קולסטון		48.4164
4	Spanish (es) Edward Colston		47.7362
5	Portuguese (pt) Edward Colston		40.7444
6	Persian (fa) ادوارد کالستون		35.4295
7	Japanese (ja) エドワード・コルストン		35.4045
8	French (fr) Edward Colston		30.7454
9	Dutch (nl) Edward Colston		29.938
10	Polish (pl) Edward Colston		29.3935

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edward Colston		3 090 010
2	Spanish (es) Edward Colston		113 192
3	French (fr) Edward Colston		101 269
4	German (de) Edward Colston		99 933
5	Japanese (ja) エドワード・コルストン		54 787
6	Portuguese (pt) Edward Colston		37 407
7	Italian (it) Edward Colston		36 652
8	Russian (ru) Кольстон, Эдвард		28 804
9	Dutch (nl) Edward Colston		13 228
10	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·科尔斯顿		7 450

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 Colston		14 251
2	German (de) Edward Colston		1 783
3	French (fr) Edward Colston		1 170
4	Italian (it) Edward Colston		1 079
5	Spanish (es) Edward Colston		758
6	Polish (pl) Edward Colston		560
7	Portuguese (pt) Edward Colston		407
8	Russian (ru) Кольстон, Эдвард		402
9	Japanese (ja) エドワード・コルストン		329
10	Dutch (nl) Edward Colston		318

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Edward Colston		321
2	German (de) Edward Colston		56
3	French (fr) Edward Colston		52
4	Spanish (es) Edward Colston		28
5	Italian (it) Edward Colston		20
6	Hebrew (he) אדוורד קולסטון		18
7	Russian (ru) Кольстон, Эдвард		18
8	Japanese (ja) エドワード・コルストン		13
9	Portuguese (pt) Edward Colston		11
10	Dutch (nl) Edward Colston		10

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 Colston		6
2	German (de) Edward Colston		2
3	Spanish (es) Edward Colston		2
4	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·科尔斯顿		1
5	Persian (fa) ادوارد کالستون		0
6	Finnish (fi) Edward Colston		0
7	French (fr) Edward Colston		0
8	Hebrew (he) אדוורד קולסטון		0
9	Indonesian (id) Edward Colston		0
10	Italian (it) Edward Colston		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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