Edward Snowden

Quality:

Edward Snowden - American whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born 1983). This person is the 344^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 338^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Edward Snowden” in English Wikipedia has 97.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 558 references and 40 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 658^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1462^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 338^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 958^th most popular in all topics.

The 2568^th most popular in AI.

The 344^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2608^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 2044^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2539^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4376^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Edward Snowden” was edited by 19 authors in English Wikipedia (2044^th place) and written by 31 authors in all languages (4376^th place).

Since the creation of article “Edward Snowden”, its content was written by 1719 registered users of English Wikipedia (1462^nd place) and edited by 4675 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2568^th place).

Edward Snowden is on the 338^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 344^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 1075 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4616 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2 in June 2013
• Global: #3 in June 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #15 in June 2013
• Global: #11 in July 2013

There are 52 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	Russian (ru) Сноуден, Эдвард		100
2	English (en) Edward Snowden		97.5972
3	German (de) Edward Snowden		95.7143
4	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·斯诺登		94.7575
5	Armenian (hy) Էդվարդ Սնոուդեն		93.3333
6	French (fr) Edward Snowden		91.7316
7	Persian (fa) ادوارد اسنودن		77.0193
8	Portuguese (pt) Edward Snowden		76.7579
9	Malay (ms) Edward Snowden		74.3688
10	Japanese (ja) エドワード・スノーデン		71.6204

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edward Snowden		52 079 237
2	Russian (ru) Сноуден, Эдвард		7 797 877
3	German (de) Edward Snowden		6 568 508
4	French (fr) Edward Snowden		5 479 676
5	Spanish (es) Edward Snowden		4 571 921
6	Japanese (ja) エドワード・スノーデン		2 730 993
7	Italian (it) Edward Snowden		2 248 421
8	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·斯诺登		2 179 739
9	Portuguese (pt) Edward Snowden		1 871 495
10	Polish (pl) Edward Snowden		1 314 757

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 Snowden		151 357
2	Russian (ru) Сноуден, Эдвард		20 397
3	German (de) Edward Snowden		18 456
4	French (fr) Edward Snowden		13 369
5	Spanish (es) Edward Snowden		8 887
6	Japanese (ja) エドワード・スノーデン		8 624
7	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·斯诺登		7 263
8	Portuguese (pt) Edward Snowden		4 695
9	Italian (it) Edward Snowden		4 442
10	Turkish (tr) Edward Snowden		2 812

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Edward Snowden		1 719
2	German (de) Edward Snowden		542
3	French (fr) Edward Snowden		352
4	Russian (ru) Сноуден, Эдвард		266
5	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·斯诺登		199
6	Spanish (es) Edward Snowden		172
7	Italian (it) Edward Snowden		125
8	Japanese (ja) エドワード・スノーデン		115
9	Portuguese (pt) Edward Snowden		94
10	Swedish (sv) Edward Snowden		81

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 Snowden		19
2	Spanish (es) Edward Snowden		3
3	French (fr) Edward Snowden		2
4	Bulgarian (bg) Едуард Сноудън		1
5	Persian (fa) ادوارد اسنودن		1
6	Hebrew (he) אדוארד סנודן		1
7	Japanese (ja) エドワード・スノーデン		1
8	Russian (ru) Сноуден, Эдвард		1
9	Swedish (sv) Edward Snowden		1
10	Chinese (zh) 爱德华·斯诺登		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