Stephen Hawking

Quality:

Stephen Hawking - British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018). This person is the 16^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 220^th most popular person in Esperanto Wikipedia. Article “Stephen Hawking” in Esperanto Wikipedia has 12.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Esperanto) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Esperanto Wikipedia:

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The 3448^th most popular in Esperanto Wikipedia.

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The 1998^th most editable in Esperanto Wikipedia.

The 220^th most popular in people in Esperanto Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 52^nd most popular in all topics.

The 265^th most popular in AI.

The 16^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Esperanto Wikipedia:

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The 1455^th most popular in Esperanto Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 409^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7486^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Stephen Hawking”, its content was written by 42 registered users of Esperanto Wikipedia (1998^th place) and edited by 9716 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (265^th place).

Stephen Hawking is on the 220^th place in local ranking of people in Esperanto Wikipedia and on the 16^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 59 times in Esperanto Wikipedia and cited 14917 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Esperanto): #2 in March 2018
• Global: #1 in March 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Esperanto): #25 in March 2018
• Global: #1 in March 2018

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) Stephen Hawking		100
2	Chinese (zh) 史蒂芬·霍金		100
3	Vietnamese (vi) Stephen Hawking		98.1818
4	Indonesian (id) Stephen Hawking		97.1429
5	Italian (it) Stephen Hawking		95.7895
6	Russian (ru) Хокинг, Стивен		87.6923
7	Finnish (fi) Stephen Hawking		87.0312
8	Ukrainian (uk) Стівен Гокінг		85.9514
9	Spanish (es) Stephen Hawking		83.8826
10	Hungarian (hu) Stephen Hawking		82.5021

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Stephen Hawking		122 644 589
2	Spanish (es) Stephen Hawking		34 755 927
3	Russian (ru) Хокинг, Стивен		16 331 957
4	German (de) Stephen Hawking		15 484 641
5	French (fr) Stephen Hawking		11 841 185
6	Portuguese (pt) Stephen Hawking		10 400 993
7	Italian (it) Stephen Hawking		9 043 638
8	Polish (pl) Stephen Hawking		5 869 672
9	Chinese (zh) 史蒂芬·霍金		5 849 811
10	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・ホーキング		5 764 307

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) Stephen Hawking		330 376
2	Spanish (es) Stephen Hawking		65 656
3	German (de) Stephen Hawking		43 935
4	French (fr) Stephen Hawking		37 096
5	Russian (ru) Хокинг, Стивен		32 325
6	Italian (it) Stephen Hawking		26 269
7	Portuguese (pt) Stephen Hawking		20 621
8	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・ホーキング		16 873
9	Chinese (zh) 史蒂芬·霍金		16 619
10	Polish (pl) Stephen Hawking		11 090

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Stephen Hawking		2 865
2	German (de) Stephen Hawking		673
3	French (fr) Stephen Hawking		525
4	Spanish (es) Stephen Hawking		462
5	Italian (it) Stephen Hawking		450
6	Russian (ru) Хокинг, Стивен		394
7	Chinese (zh) 史蒂芬·霍金		361
8	Persian (fa) استیون هاوکینگ		268
9	Dutch (nl) Stephen Hawking		259
10	Portuguese (pt) Stephen Hawking		247

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	Italian (it) Stephen Hawking		3
2	Turkish (tr) Stephen Hawking		3
3	English (en) Stephen Hawking		2
4	Basque (eu) Stephen Hawking		2
5	Russian (ru) Хокинг, Стивен		2
6	Urdu (ur) اسٹیفن ہاکنگ		2
7	Catalan (ca) Stephen Hawking		1
8	German (de) Stephen Hawking		1
9	French (fr) Stephen Hawking		1
10	Japanese (ja) スティーヴン・ホーキング		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