William Shakespeare

Quality:

William Shakespeare - English playwright and poet (1564–1616). This person is the 32^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 52^nd most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “William Shakespeare” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 320 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 92^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 338^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 52^nd most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 95^th most popular in all topics.

The 166^th most popular in AI.

The 32^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 906^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 779^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8146^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “William Shakespeare” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 23 authors in all languages (8146^th place).

Since the creation of article “William Shakespeare”, its content was written by 2592 registered users of English Wikipedia (338^th place) and edited by 10827 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (166^th place).

William Shakespeare is on the 52^nd place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 32^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 15682 times in English Wikipedia (1149^th place) and cited 99334 times in all languages (1366^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): #23 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, 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	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	Armenian (hy) Ուիլյամ Շեքսպիր		100
8	Esperanto (eo) William Shakespeare		100
9	Russian (ru) Шекспир, Уильям		98.4957
10	Thai (th) วิลเลียม เชกสเปียร์		98.2123

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Shakespeare		104 775 670
2	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		25 736 361
3	French (fr) William Shakespeare		10 131 046
4	German (de) William Shakespeare		9 700 154
5	Russian (ru) Шекспир, Уильям		9 544 567
6	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		8 032 695
7	Portuguese (pt) William Shakespeare		7 715 061
8	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・シェイクスピア		6 441 390
9	Polish (pl) William Shakespeare		6 384 312
10	Arabic (ar) وليم شكسبير		4 235 277

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		274 440
2	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		42 539
3	Russian (ru) Шекспир, Уильям		21 351
4	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・シェイクスピア		20 530
5	German (de) William Shakespeare		18 246
6	French (fr) William Shakespeare		17 011
7	Portuguese (pt) William Shakespeare		15 015
8	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		12 682
9	Chinese (zh) 威廉·莎士比亚		10 007
10	Arabic (ar) وليم شكسبير		8 024

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		2 592
2	French (fr) William Shakespeare		674
3	German (de) William Shakespeare		660
4	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		562
5	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		542
6	Russian (ru) Шекспир, Уильям		367
7	Polish (pl) William Shakespeare		303
8	Swedish (sv) William Shakespeare		298
9	Dutch (nl) William Shakespeare		288
10	Simple English (simple) William Shakespeare		283

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) William Shakespeare		6
2	German (de) William Shakespeare		3
3	Bulgarian (bg) Уилям Шекспир		2
4	Czech (cs) William Shakespeare		2
5	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		2
6	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		2
7	Georgian (ka) უილიამ შექსპირი		2
8	Estonian (et) William Shakespeare		1
9	Finnish (fi) William Shakespeare		1
10	French (fr) William Shakespeare		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