Markus Persson

Quality:

Markus Persson - Swedish video game programmer and founder of Mojang. This person is the 5239^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Markus Persson” in English Wikipedia has 85.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 165 references and 16 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 5239^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9213^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Markus Persson” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (9213^th place).

Since the creation of article “Markus Persson”, its content was written by 587 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2262 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Markus Persson is on the 5239^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 202 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1137 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #518 in April 2014
• Global: #682 in September 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #957 in January 2016
• Global: #2671 in January 2016

There are 41 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) Markus Persson		85.7143
2	Portuguese (pt) Markus Persson		80.3796
3	Malay (ms) Markus Persson		77.9414
4	Japanese (ja) マルクス・ペルソン		55.4804
5	Spanish (es) Markus Persson		49.5736
6	Chinese (zh) 马库斯·佩尔松		48.504
7	Swedish (sv) Markus Persson		48.0969
8	German (de) Markus Persson		46.3429
9	Russian (ru) Перссон, Маркус		42.6225
10	Hebrew (he) מרקוס פרסון		38.9648

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Markus Persson		9 892 213
2	Russian (ru) Перссон, Маркус		1 230 021
3	Spanish (es) Markus Persson		998 209
4	German (de) Markus Persson		853 671
5	French (fr) Markus Persson		636 378
6	Swedish (sv) Markus Persson		588 861
7	Portuguese (pt) Markus Persson		406 450
8	Japanese (ja) マルクス・ペルソン		389 221
9	Polish (pl) Markus Persson		377 210
10	Italian (it) Markus Persson		339 199

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) Markus Persson		51 640
2	Russian (ru) Перссон, Маркус		8 198
3	Spanish (es) Markus Persson		4 958
4	Japanese (ja) マルクス・ペルソン		4 010
5	German (de) Markus Persson		3 592
6	Portuguese (pt) Markus Persson		3 280
7	Swedish (sv) Markus Persson		2 751
8	French (fr) Markus Persson		2 656
9	Italian (it) Markus Persson		2 127
10	Polish (pl) Markus Persson		1 755

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Markus Persson		587
2	Russian (ru) Перссон, Маркус		168
3	French (fr) Markus Persson		160
4	German (de) Markus Persson		158
5	Spanish (es) Markus Persson		151
6	Italian (it) Markus Persson		126
7	Swedish (sv) Markus Persson		111
8	Dutch (nl) Markus Persson		81
9	Polish (pl) Markus Persson		70
10	Portuguese (pt) Markus Persson		67

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) Markus Persson		4
2	English (en) Markus Persson		3
3	Dutch (nl) Markus Persson		3
4	Greek (el) Μάρκους Πέρσον		2
5	Hebrew (he) מרקוס פרסון		2
6	Polish (pl) Markus Persson		2
7	Russian (ru) Перссон, Маркус		2
8	German (de) Markus Persson		1
9	Japanese (ja) マルクス・ペルソン		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Markus Persson		1

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

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