John Candy

Quality:

John Candy - Canadian actor (1950–1994). This person is the 1323^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 841^st most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “John Candy” in English Wikipedia has 73.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 72 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:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1788^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 7631^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 841^st most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4433^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1323^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1688^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2944^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “John Candy” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “John Candy”, its content was written by 933 registered users of English Wikipedia (7631^st place) and edited by 1854 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

John Candy is on the 841^st place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 1323^rd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 590 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2029 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #753 in October 2002
• Global: #2041 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #220 in December 2020
• Global: #504 in December 2024

There are 36 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) John Candy		73.9315
2	Greek (el) Τζον Κάντι		65.4171
3	Ukrainian (uk) Джон Кенді		54.6911
4	Spanish (es) John Candy		40.4667
5	Hungarian (hu) John Candy		35.3578
6	Norwegian (no) John Candy		27.9691
7	Slovenian (sl) John Candy		27.2929
8	Turkish (tr) John Candy		26.1534
9	Romanian (ro) John Candy		22.2226
10	Russian (ru) Кэнди, Джон		19.9892

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) John Candy		33 581 360
2	German (de) John Candy		2 580 026
3	Spanish (es) John Candy		1 308 898
4	Italian (it) John Candy		1 266 891
5	Russian (ru) Кэнди, Джон		1 054 090
6	French (fr) John Candy		956 992
7	Portuguese (pt) John Candy		452 151
8	Polish (pl) John Candy		416 904
9	Japanese (ja) ジョン・キャンディ		390 029
10	Dutch (nl) John Candy		303 994

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) John Candy		196 467
2	German (de) John Candy		14 131
3	Italian (it) John Candy		7 118
4	Spanish (es) John Candy		5 225
5	French (fr) John Candy		4 250
6	Russian (ru) Кэнди, Джон		3 887
7	Polish (pl) John Candy		1 433
8	Portuguese (pt) John Candy		1 432
9	Japanese (ja) ジョン・キャンディ		1 112
10	Hungarian (hu) John Candy		1 105

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) John Candy		933
2	German (de) John Candy		109
3	French (fr) John Candy		93
4	Italian (it) John Candy		91
5	Dutch (nl) John Candy		65
6	Russian (ru) Кэнди, Джон		60
7	Spanish (es) John Candy		40
8	Swedish (sv) John Candy		36
9	Norwegian (no) John Candy		33
10	Finnish (fi) John Candy		31

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	Czech (cs) John Candy		2
2	English (en) John Candy		2
3	Greek (el) Τζον Κάντι		1
4	Turkish (tr) John Candy		1
5	Arabic (ar) جون كاندي		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Джон Кенди		0
7	Catalan (ca) John Candy		0
8	Danish (da) John Candy		0
9	German (de) John Candy		0
10	Spanish (es) John Candy		0

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