Walter Scott

Quality:

Walter Scott - Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832). This person is the 5666^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Walter Scott” in English Wikipedia has 86 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 142 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.53 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7655^th most popular in AI.

The 5666^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 5480^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7323^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Walter Scott” was edited by 12 authors in English Wikipedia (5480^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (7323^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Walter Scott”, its content was written by 698 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2884 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7655^th place).

Walter Scott is on the 5666^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3736 times in English Wikipedia (7044^th place) and cited 13847 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1577 in August 2001
• Global: #1259 in August 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5206 in March 2018
• Global: #9803 in March 2018

There are 51 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	Hebrew (he) וולטר סקוט		98.7837
2	French (fr) Walter Scott		92.3458
3	English (en) Walter Scott		86.0199
4	Catalan (ca) Walter Scott		76.9032
5	Chinese (zh) 沃尔特·司各特		68.5694
6	German (de) Walter Scott		68.5235
7	Dutch (nl) Walter Scott (schrijver)		58.3086
8	Greek (el) Γουόλτερ Σκοτ		57.8429
9	Portuguese (pt) Walter Scott		48.5579
10	Spanish (es) Walter Scott		45.9954

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Walter Scott		7 322 271
2	Russian (ru) Скотт, Вальтер		2 020 852
3	Spanish (es) Walter Scott		1 398 224
4	French (fr) Walter Scott		865 654
5	Italian (it) Walter Scott		730 763
6	German (de) Walter Scott		710 290
7	Polish (pl) Walter Scott		390 300
8	Ukrainian (uk) Вальтер Скотт		359 109
9	Czech (cs) Walter Scott		286 870
10	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・スコット		268 792

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) Walter Scott		34 714
2	Russian (ru) Скотт, Вальтер		5 643
3	German (de) Walter Scott		2 995
4	Spanish (es) Walter Scott		2 783
5	French (fr) Walter Scott		2 748
6	Italian (it) Walter Scott		1 716
7	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・スコット		1 345
8	Chinese (zh) 沃尔特·司各特		953
9	Polish (pl) Walter Scott		879
10	Portuguese (pt) Walter Scott		652

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Walter Scott		698
2	French (fr) Walter Scott		211
3	German (de) Walter Scott		199
4	Russian (ru) Скотт, Вальтер		193
5	Italian (it) Walter Scott		153
6	Spanish (es) Walter Scott		110
7	Swedish (sv) Walter Scott		97
8	Dutch (nl) Walter Scott (schrijver)		76
9	Hungarian (hu) Walter Scott		67
10	Czech (cs) Walter Scott		65

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) Walter Scott		12
2	Arabic (ar) والتر سكوت		1
3	Catalan (ca) Walter Scott		1
4	Czech (cs) Walter Scott		1
5	German (de) Walter Scott		1
6	Basque (eu) Walter Scott		1
7	Croatian (hr) Walter Scott		1
8	Italian (it) Walter Scott		1
9	Japanese (ja) ウォルター・スコット		1
10	Korean (ko) 월터 스콧		1

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