Player character

Player character - character in a role-playing or video game that can be played or controlled by a real-world person. Article “Player character” in English Wikipedia has 48.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 19 references and 12 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Player character” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Player character”, its content was written by 162 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 532 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3372 times in English Wikipedia (9107^th place) and cited 8541 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #968 in July 2001
• Global: #1188 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #56783 in January 2008
• Global: #69026 in January 2008

There are 29 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	Chinese (zh) 玩家角色		55.3378
2	English (en) Player character		48.2639
3	Hungarian (hu) Játékos karakter		37.6814
4	Korean (ko) 플레이어 캐릭터		36.1768
5	Portuguese (pt) Personagem do jogador		34.826
6	Swedish (sv) Rollperson		32.3627
7	Norwegian (no) Spillerfigur		28.268
8	Japanese (ja) プレイヤーキャラクター		26.362
9	French (fr) Personnage joueur		25.215
10	Simple English (simple) Player character		23.8209

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Player character" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Player character		2 065 934
2	Japanese (ja) プレイヤーキャラクター		202 890
3	Russian (ru) Игровой персонаж		131 405
4	Spanish (es) Personaje jugador		78 287
5	Polish (pl) Postać gracza		72 629
6	German (de) Spielercharakter		68 320
7	Italian (it) Personaggio giocante		62 489
8	French (fr) Personnage joueur		52 966
9	Chinese (zh) 玩家角色		31 599
10	Korean (ko) 플레이어 캐릭터		26 610

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Player character" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Player character		7 954
2	Japanese (ja) プレイヤーキャラクター		508
3	Russian (ru) Игровой персонаж		439
4	Chinese (zh) 玩家角色		234
5	Spanish (es) Personaje jugador		191
6	Italian (it) Personaggio giocante		183
7	Polish (pl) Postać gracza		114
8	German (de) Spielercharakter		111
9	French (fr) Personnage joueur		110
10	Portuguese (pt) Personagem do jogador		108

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

Language versions of the article "Player character" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Player character		162
2	French (fr) Personnage joueur		49
3	Japanese (ja) プレイヤーキャラクター		45
4	Italian (it) Personaggio giocante		44
5	German (de) Spielercharakter		40
6	Polish (pl) Postać gracza		34
7	Spanish (es) Personaje jugador		20
8	Dutch (nl) Player character		19
9	Russian (ru) Игровой персонаж		17
10	Chinese (zh) 玩家角色		17

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

Language versions of the article "Player character" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) プレイヤーキャラクター		3
2	English (en) Player character		1
3	Korean (ko) 플레이어 캐릭터		1
4	Polish (pl) Postać gracza		1
5	Arabic (ar) شخصية قابلة للعب		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Oyunçu personaj		0
7	Czech (cs) Herní postava		0
8	Danish (da) Spilkarakter (computerspil)		0
9	German (de) Spielercharakter		0
10	Spanish (es) Personaje jugador		0

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

Language versions of the article "Player character" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Player character		3 372
2	Japanese (ja) プレイヤーキャラクター		972
3	Italian (it) Personaggio giocante		710
4	French (fr) Personnage joueur		609
5	Russian (ru) Игровой персонаж		423
6	Portuguese (pt) Personagem do jogador		385
7	Chinese (zh) 玩家角色		374
8	Spanish (es) Personaje jugador		283
9	Polish (pl) Postać gracza		219
10	Swedish (sv) Rollperson		170

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شخصية قابلة للعب
az	Azerbaijani Oyunçu personaj
cs	Czech Herní postava
da	Danish Spilkarakter (computerspil)
de	German Spielercharakter
en	English Player character
es	Spanish Personaje jugador
fa	Persian شخصیت بازیکن
fr	French Personnage joueur
gl	Galician Personaxe xogador
hu	Hungarian Játékos karakter
hy	Armenian Խաղացողի կերպար
id	Indonesian Karakter pemain
it	Italian Personaggio giocante
ja	Japanese プレイヤーキャラクター
ko	Korean 플레이어 캐릭터
lt	Lithuanian Žaidėjo veikėjas
ms	Malay Watak pemain
nl	Dutch Player character
no	Norwegian Spillerfigur
pl	Polish Postać gracza
pt	Portuguese Personagem do jogador
ru	Russian Игровой персонаж
simple	Simple English Player character
sv	Swedish Rollperson
tr	Turkish Oynanabilir karakter
uk	Ukrainian Ігровий персонаж
vi	Vietnamese Nhân vật người chơi
zh	Chinese 玩家角色

Best Rank

English: #56783 01.2008

Global: #69026 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #968 07.2001

Global: #1188 07.2001

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