James Cook

Quality:

James Cook - British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779). This person is the 1412^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 371^st most popular person in Estonian Wikipedia. Article “James Cook” in Estonian Wikipedia has 11.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Estonian Wikipedia:

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The 1726^th most popular in Estonian Wikipedia.

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The 2210^th most editable in Estonian Wikipedia.

The 371^st most popular in people in Estonian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4595^th most popular in all topics.

The 1371^st most popular in AI.

The 1412^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7670^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3817^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “James Cook”, its content was written by 28 registered users of Estonian Wikipedia (2210^th place) and edited by 5779 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1371^st place).

James Cook is on the 371^st place in local ranking of people in Estonian Wikipedia and on the 1412^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 91 times in Estonian Wikipedia and cited 17566 times in all languages (9889^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Estonian): #4 in September 2013
• Global: #199 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Estonian): #19 in September 2012
• Global: #2119 in March 2008

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) James Cook		100
2	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·庫克		98.4903
3	Esperanto (eo) James Cook		94.9405
4	Italian (it) James Cook		94.8804
5	Polish (pl) James Cook		94.1176
6	Finnish (fi) James Cook		82.057
7	Galician (gl) James Cook		76.7961
8	Catalan (ca) James Cook		75.1555
9	Malay (ms) James Cook		70.1757
10	German (de) James Cook		69.4138

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) James Cook		21 859 993
2	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		4 185 235
3	German (de) James Cook		3 617 620
4	French (fr) James Cook		3 015 730
5	Spanish (es) James Cook		1 629 005
6	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・クック		1 223 209
7	Polish (pl) James Cook		1 158 511
8	Italian (it) James Cook		1 044 001
9	Dutch (nl) James Cook		624 795
10	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·庫克		531 379

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) James Cook		71 994
2	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		8 737
3	German (de) James Cook		7 716
4	French (fr) James Cook		5 274
5	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・クック		3 069
6	Spanish (es) James Cook		2 819
7	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·庫克		2 470
8	Italian (it) James Cook		2 303
9	Dutch (nl) James Cook		2 282
10	Polish (pl) James Cook		2 217

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) James Cook		1 604
2	German (de) James Cook		551
3	French (fr) James Cook		390
4	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		272
5	Italian (it) James Cook		205
6	Dutch (nl) James Cook		203
7	Hebrew (he) ג'יימס קוק		168
8	Spanish (es) James Cook		167
9	Polish (pl) James Cook		145
10	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·庫克		116

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) James Cook		4
2	Italian (it) James Cook		4
3	German (de) James Cook		3
4	English (en) James Cook		3
5	French (fr) James Cook		3
6	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		3
7	Basque (eu) James Cook		2
8	Hebrew (he) ג'יימס קוק		2
9	Polish (pl) James Cook		2
10	Arabic (ar) جيمس كوك		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 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