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Wayland the Smith

Quality:

Wayland the Smith - Germanic mythological blacksmith. Article “Wayland the Smith” in English Wikipedia has 67.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 41 references and 12 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.

In June 2025 the article “Wayland the Smith” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Wayland the Smith”, its content was written by 230 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 726 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 747 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3968 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3754 in April 2004
  • Global: #11185 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #108098 in January 2023
  • Global: #79517 in February 2010

There are 25 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Wayland the Smith
67.4571
2German (de)
Wieland der Schmied
37.9678
3Greek (el)
Βίλαντ ο σιδεράς
35.4437
4Norwegian (no)
Volund smed
31.6674
5Finnish (fi)
Wayland (jumala)
28.1905
6French (fr)
Völund
27.9459
7Catalan (ca)
Völundr
25.6772
8Basque (eu)
Völund
24.5962
9Italian (it)
Weland il fabbro
23.8968
10Czech (cs)
Kovář Wieland
22.5229
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Wayland the Smith" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Wayland the Smith
1 339 846
2German (de)
Wieland der Schmied
516 014
3Russian (ru)
Велунд
211 395
4Japanese (ja)
ヴェルンド
127 518
5Swedish (sv)
Völund
93 079
6Spanish (es)
Völundr
92 517
7French (fr)
Völund
67 120
8Italian (it)
Weland il fabbro
53 650
9Norwegian (no)
Volund smed
31 377
10Danish (da)
Vølund Smed
21 468
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Wayland the Smith" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Wayland the Smith
7 326
2German (de)
Wieland der Schmied
1 474
3Russian (ru)
Велунд
733
4Italian (it)
Weland il fabbro
409
5French (fr)
Völund
366
6Japanese (ja)
ヴェルンド
359
7Simple English (simple)
Wayland
255
8Swedish (sv)
Völund
234
9Spanish (es)
Völundr
217
10Norwegian (no)
Volund smed
80
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Wayland the Smith" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Wayland the Smith
230
2German (de)
Wieland der Schmied
120
3Russian (ru)
Велунд
47
4French (fr)
Völund
39
5Swedish (sv)
Völund
35
6Italian (it)
Weland il fabbro
31
7Danish (da)
Vølund Smed
29
8Dutch (nl)
Wieland de Smid
29
9Norwegian (no)
Volund smed
25
10Japanese (ja)
ヴェルンド
23
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Wayland the Smith" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Wayland the Smith
1
2Polish (pl)
Wolundr
1
3Catalan (ca)
Völundr
0
4Czech (cs)
Kovář Wieland
0
5Danish (da)
Vølund Smed
0
6German (de)
Wieland der Schmied
0
7Greek (el)
Βίλαντ ο σιδεράς
0
8Esperanto (eo)
Volundo
0
9Spanish (es)
Völundr
0
10Basque (eu)
Völund
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Wayland the Smith" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Wayland the Smith
747
2Ukrainian (uk)
Велюнд
416
3Italian (it)
Weland il fabbro
388
4Japanese (ja)
ヴェルンド
385
5Danish (da)
Vølund Smed
377
6Swedish (sv)
Völund
338
7Norwegian (no)
Volund smed
252
8Korean (ko)
볼룬드
226
9Galician (gl)
Völundr
156
10Turkish (tr)
Demirci Völund
143
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
caCatalan
Völundr
csCzech
Kovář Wieland
daDanish
Vølund Smed
deGerman
Wieland der Schmied
elGreek
Βίλαντ ο σιδεράς
enEnglish
Wayland the Smith
eoEsperanto
Volundo
esSpanish
Völundr
euBasque
Völund
fiFinnish
Wayland (jumala)
frFrench
Völund
glGalician
Völundr
huHungarian
Völund
itItalian
Weland il fabbro
jaJapanese
ヴェルンド
koKorean
볼룬드
nlDutch
Wieland de Smid
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Volund
noNorwegian
Volund smed
plPolish
Wolundr
ruRussian
Велунд
simpleSimple English
Wayland
svSwedish
Völund
trTurkish
Demirci Völund
ukUkrainian
Велюнд

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#108098
01.2023
Global:
#79517
02.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3754
04.2004
Global:
#11185
04.2004

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Wayland the Smith from Wikipedia articles about Durendal, Anglo-Saxon paganism, Elf, Smithing gods and Hephaestus. Whereas reading the article about Wayland the Smith people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Witege, Cortain, Joyeuse, Völundarkviða and Durendal.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Wayland
nn: Volund

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