William Shakespeare

Quality:

William Shakespeare - English playwright and poet (1564–1616). This person is the 34^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 53^rd most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “William Shakespeare” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 331 references and 25 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 93^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 344^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 53^rd most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 92^nd most popular in all topics.

The 172^nd most popular in AI.

The 34^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1006^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 7737^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 844^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 956^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “William Shakespeare” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia (7737^th place) and written by 64 authors in all languages (956^th place).

Since the creation of article “William Shakespeare”, its content was written by 2641 registered users of English Wikipedia (344^th place) and edited by 10915 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (172^nd place).

William Shakespeare is on the 53^rd place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 34^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 16145 times in English Wikipedia (1125^th place) and cited 103319 times in all languages (1356^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #42 in February 2006
• Global: #33 in October 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22 in April 2016
• Global: #10 in April 2016

There are 55 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	English (en) William Shakespeare		100
2	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		100
3	Chinese (zh) 威廉·莎士比亚		100
4	Czech (cs) William Shakespeare		100
5	Greek (el) Ουίλλιαμ Σαίξπηρ		100
6	Indonesian (id) William Shakespeare		100
7	Georgian (ka) უილიამ შექსპირი		100
8	Armenian (hy) Ուիլյամ Շեքսպիր		100
9	Esperanto (eo) William Shakespeare		100
10	Russian (ru) Шекспир, Уильям		98.6859

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Shakespeare		109 388 043
2	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		26 446 845
3	Russian (ru) Шекспир, Уильям		10 897 105
4	French (fr) William Shakespeare		10 554 536
5	German (de) William Shakespeare		10 138 757
6	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		8 365 017
7	Portuguese (pt) William Shakespeare		7 979 172
8	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・シェイクスピア		6 740 065
9	Polish (pl) William Shakespeare		6 521 900
10	Arabic (ar) وليم شكسبير		4 360 120

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) William Shakespeare		244 459
2	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		29 324
3	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・シェイクスピア		20 033
4	German (de) William Shakespeare		19 828
5	French (fr) William Shakespeare		19 626
6	Russian (ru) Шекспир, Уильям		18 785
7	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		14 265
8	Portuguese (pt) William Shakespeare		12 393
9	Chinese (zh) 威廉·莎士比亚		11 165
10	Persian (fa) ویلیام شکسپیر		8 046

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William Shakespeare		2 641
2	French (fr) William Shakespeare		678
3	German (de) William Shakespeare		665
4	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		576
5	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		549
6	Russian (ru) Шекспир, Уильям		373
7	Polish (pl) William Shakespeare		305
8	Swedish (sv) William Shakespeare		299
9	Dutch (nl) William Shakespeare		298
10	Simple English (simple) William Shakespeare		286

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	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		13
2	English (en) William Shakespeare		9
3	Czech (cs) William Shakespeare		7
4	French (fr) William Shakespeare		5
5	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		5
6	Serbian (sr) Вилијам Шекспир		4
7	Arabic (ar) وليم شكسبير		3
8	Bulgarian (bg) Уилям Шекспир		2
9	Basque (eu) William Shakespeare		2
10	Indonesian (id) William Shakespeare		2

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information