Protagonist

Quality:

Protagonist - main character of a creative work. Article “Protagonist” in English Wikipedia has 41.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 30 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.65 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Protagonist” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Protagonist”, its content was written by 482 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1547 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3950 times in English Wikipedia (7000^th place) and cited 27676 times in all languages (6113^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3754 in March 2022
• Global: #7956 in October 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4440 in September 2009
• Global: #5956 in September 2009

There are 47 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Hovudperson		46.1864
2	Catalan (ca) Protagonista		43.7297
3	English (en) Protagonist		41.8157
4	Japanese (ja) 主人公		41.7707
5	Kazakh (kk) Протагонист		36.8082
6	Serbian (sr) Протагониста		34.6477
7	Spanish (es) Protagonista		32.7407
8	Indonesian (id) Protagonis		29.3715
9	Czech (cs) Protagonista		28.881
10	Azerbaijani (az) Protaqonist		27.193

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Protagonist		11 676 677
2	Russian (ru) Протагонист		2 991 303
3	German (de) Protagonist		2 836 096
4	Spanish (es) Protagonista		1 462 125
5	Japanese (ja) 主人公		957 981
6	Indonesian (id) Protagonis		780 519
7	Dutch (nl) Protagonist		692 633
8	Portuguese (pt) Protagonista		543 920
9	Polish (pl) Protagonista		512 598
10	French (fr) Protagoniste		486 328

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) Protagonist		23 443
2	Russian (ru) Протагонист		4 193
3	Chinese (zh) 主人公		3 620
4	German (de) Protagonist		2 533
5	Japanese (ja) 主人公		1 627
6	Italian (it) Protagonista		993
7	Spanish (es) Protagonista		858
8	French (fr) Protagoniste		798
9	Dutch (nl) Protagonist		788
10	Persian (fa) قهرمان (داستان)		774

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Protagonist		482
2	German (de) Protagonist		121
3	Japanese (ja) 主人公		92
4	Russian (ru) Протагонист		74
5	Italian (it) Protagonista		72
6	Spanish (es) Protagonista		68
7	French (fr) Protagoniste		62
8	Dutch (nl) Protagonist		62
9	Portuguese (pt) Protagonista		47
10	Chinese (zh) 主人公		37

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) Protagonist		4
2	Arabic (ar) بطل الرواية		1
3	Italian (it) Protagonista		1
4	Russian (ru) Протагонист		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Protaqonist		0
6	Belarusian (be) Пратаганіст		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Протагонист		0
8	Catalan (ca) Protagonista		0
9	Czech (cs) Protagonista		0
10	Danish (da) Protagonist		0

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

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