William Murdoch

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William Murdoch

Quality:

William Murdoch - Scottish engineer and inventor (1754-1839). Article “William Murdoch” in English Wikipedia has 52.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.78 points.

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

Since the creation of article “William Murdoch”, its content was written by 140 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 381 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 268 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1150 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #8569 in June 2002
  • Global: #9640 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #123998 in April 2019
  • Global: #61291 in April 2012

There are 24 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
1Turkish (tr)
William Murdoch
59.2877
2English (en)
William Murdoch
52.8757
3Polish (pl)
William Murdoch (inżynier)
47.5416
4Portuguese (pt)
William Murdoch
39.5152
5Russian (ru)
Мёрдок, Уильям (изобретатель)
30.7849
6Greek (el)
Ουίλιαμ Μάρντοκ
30.6442
7German (de)
William Murdoch
27.1028
8Swedish (sv)
William Murdoch (ingenjör)
26.067
9Slovenian (sl)
William Murdoch
25.6926
10Finnish (fi)
William Murdoch (insinööri)
24.4265
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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 "William Murdoch" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
William Murdoch
569 356
2Spanish (es)
William Murdoch
201 551
3German (de)
William Murdoch
72 497
4French (fr)
William Murdoch
55 120
5Russian (ru)
Мёрдок, Уильям (изобретатель)
28 058
6Japanese (ja)
ウィリアム・マードック
27 754
7Portuguese (pt)
William Murdoch
11 204
8Italian (it)
William Murdoch
11 064
9Polish (pl)
William Murdoch (inżynier)
10 257
10Arabic (ar)
ويليام مردوخ (فيزيائي)
9 173
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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 "William Murdoch" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
William Murdoch
2 167
2German (de)
William Murdoch
140
3Russian (ru)
Мёрдок, Уильям (изобретатель)
103
4French (fr)
William Murdoch
100
5Japanese (ja)
ウィリアム・マードック
96
6Arabic (ar)
ويليام مردوخ (فيزيائي)
81
7Dutch (nl)
William Murdoch (ingenieur)
77
8Spanish (es)
William Murdoch
70
9Portuguese (pt)
William Murdoch
44
10Persian (fa)
ویلیام مرداک
42
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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 "William Murdoch" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
William Murdoch
140
2German (de)
William Murdoch
54
3French (fr)
William Murdoch
44
4Dutch (nl)
William Murdoch (ingenieur)
16
5Russian (ru)
Мёрдок, Уильям (изобретатель)
13
6Arabic (ar)
ويليام مردوخ (فيزيائي)
11
7Japanese (ja)
ウィリアム・マードック
11
8Polish (pl)
William Murdoch (inżynier)
10
9Swedish (sv)
William Murdoch (ingenjör)
10
10Ukrainian (uk)
Вільям Мердок
9
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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 "William Murdoch" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Turkish (tr)
William Murdoch
1
2Arabic (ar)
ويليام مردوخ (فيزيائي)
0
3Bulgarian (bg)
Уилям Мърдок
0
4Czech (cs)
William Murdoch
0
5Danish (da)
William Murdoch
0
6German (de)
William Murdoch
0
7Greek (el)
Ουίλιαμ Μάρντοκ
0
8English (en)
William Murdoch
0
9Esperanto (eo)
William Murdoch
0
10Spanish (es)
William Murdoch
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 "William Murdoch" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
William Murdoch
268
2Portuguese (pt)
William Murdoch
117
3Russian (ru)
Мёрдок, Уильям (изобретатель)
112
4Turkish (tr)
William Murdoch
90
5Slovenian (sl)
William Murdoch
78
6Arabic (ar)
ويليام مردوخ (فيزيائي)
71
7Ukrainian (uk)
Вільям Мердок
68
8Polish (pl)
William Murdoch (inżynier)
61
9French (fr)
William Murdoch
56
10German (de)
William Murdoch
50
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
ويليام مردوخ (فيزيائي)
bgBulgarian
Уилям Мърдок
csCzech
William Murdoch
daDanish
William Murdoch
deGerman
William Murdoch
elGreek
Ουίλιαμ Μάρντοκ
enEnglish
William Murdoch
eoEsperanto
William Murdoch
esSpanish
William Murdoch
faPersian
ویلیام مرداک
fiFinnish
William Murdoch (insinööri)
frFrench
William Murdoch
heHebrew
ויליאם מרדוך
itItalian
William Murdoch
jaJapanese
ウィリアム・マードック
koKorean
윌리엄 머독
nlDutch
William Murdoch (ingenieur)
plPolish
William Murdoch (inżynier)
ptPortuguese
William Murdoch
ruRussian
Мёрдок, Уильям (изобретатель)
slSlovenian
William Murdoch
svSwedish
William Murdoch (ingenjör)
trTurkish
William Murdoch
ukUkrainian
Вільям Мердок

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#123998
04.2019
Global:
#61291
04.2012

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#8569
06.2002
Global:
#9640
06.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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