James the Great

Quality:

St. James the Elder - one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. This person is the 3988^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “James the Great” in English Wikipedia has 69.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 41 references and 17 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6971^st most popular in AI.

The 3988^th most popular in people.

In June 2026 the article “James the Great” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “James the Great”, its content was written by 635 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3060 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6971^st place).

St. James the Elder is on the 3988^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3214 times in English Wikipedia (9792^nd place) and cited 22087 times in all languages (7778^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2168 in January 2003
• Global: #1001 in April 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7988 in April 2025
• Global: #3096 in July 2025

There are 49 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, 2026 (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) James the Great		69.9099
2	Polish (pl) Jakub Większy Apostoł		59.4586
3	German (de) Jakobus der Ältere		57.7259
4	Malay (ms) James the Great		55.4593
5	Persian (fa) یعقوب پسر زبدی		52.4378
6	Spanish (es) Santiago el Mayor		47.3412
7	Hungarian (hu) Idősebb Jakab apostol		44.1119
8	French (fr) Jacques de Zébédée		39.7756
9	Tamil (ta) செபதேயுவின் மகன் யாக்கோபு		39.4515
10	Italian (it) Giacomo il Maggiore		38.682

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) James the Great		7 382 182
2	Spanish (es) Santiago el Mayor		4 894 505
3	Italian (it) Giacomo il Maggiore		1 260 985
4	German (de) Jakobus der Ältere		1 186 994
5	Polish (pl) Jakub Większy Apostoł		1 172 650
6	French (fr) Jacques de Zébédée		1 007 279
7	Portuguese (pt) Santiago Maior		972 202
8	Russian (ru) Иаков Зеведеев		635 315
9	Japanese (ja) ヤコブ (ゼベダイの子)		480 139
10	Dutch (nl) Jakobus de Meerdere		352 921

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) James the Great		39 030
2	Spanish (es) Santiago el Mayor		15 471
3	German (de) Jakobus der Ältere		5 381
4	Italian (it) Giacomo il Maggiore		4 988
5	French (fr) Jacques de Zébédée		4 875
6	Polish (pl) Jakub Większy Apostoł		3 488
7	Portuguese (pt) Santiago Maior		3 397
8	Russian (ru) Иаков Зеведеев		3 142
9	Japanese (ja) ヤコブ (ゼベダイの子)		2 091
10	Dutch (nl) Jakobus de Meerdere		1 259

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) James the Great		635
2	Spanish (es) Santiago el Mayor		316
3	German (de) Jakobus der Ältere		258
4	Italian (it) Giacomo il Maggiore		230
5	French (fr) Jacques de Zébédée		215
6	Dutch (nl) Jakobus de Meerdere		143
7	Polish (pl) Jakub Większy Apostoł		108
8	Russian (ru) Иаков Зеведеев		89
9	Portuguese (pt) Santiago Maior		83
10	Hungarian (hu) Idősebb Jakab apostol		64

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) Santiago el Mayor		4
2	German (de) Jakobus der Ältere		2
3	English (en) James the Great		2
4	Bulgarian (bg) Яков Зеведеев		1
5	Catalan (ca) Jaume el Major		1
6	Basque (eu) Jakue Zebedeorena		1
7	Italian (it) Giacomo il Maggiore		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Santiago Maior		1
9	Arabic (ar) يعقوب بن زبدي		0
10	Belarusian (be) Якаў Зевядзееў		0

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

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