William Adams (merimies)

Quality:

William Adams - English navigator who travelled to Japan. Article “William Adams (merimies)” in Finnish Wikipedia has 4.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “William Adams (merimies)”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia and edited by 1309 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 1574 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Finnish): #3829 in April 2011
• Global: #1649 in March 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Finnish): #10378 in March 2024
• Global: #367 in March 2024

There are 30 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 Adams (samurai)		97.8552
2	Persian (fa) ویلیام آدامز (دریانورد)		92.9558
3	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・アダムス		57.2155
4	Chinese (zh) 三浦按針		51.4968
5	Indonesian (id) William Adams (pelaut)		48.9932
6	Spanish (es) William Adams (marino)		44.2648
7	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Άνταμς		42.0366
8	Dutch (nl) William Adams		36.4418
9	Russian (ru) Адамс, Уильям (штурман)		34.6904
10	Hungarian (hu) William Adams		31.3731

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Adams (samurai)		3 521 892
2	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・アダムス		2 557 952
3	German (de) William Adams (Weltreisender)		463 862
4	Chinese (zh) 三浦按針		383 103
5	Spanish (es) William Adams (marino)		244 799
6	Russian (ru) Адамс, Уильям (штурман)		184 425
7	Italian (it) William Adams		150 559
8	French (fr) William Adams (navigateur anglais)		110 468
9	Polish (pl) William Adams (żeglarz)		81 449
10	Portuguese (pt) William Adams		72 075

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 Adams (samurai)		28 862
2	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・アダムス		18 362
3	German (de) William Adams (Weltreisender)		2 319
4	Chinese (zh) 三浦按針		2 145
5	Russian (ru) Адамс, Уильям (штурман)		2 049
6	Spanish (es) William Adams (marino)		1 361
7	Italian (it) William Adams		887
8	French (fr) William Adams (navigateur anglais)		817
9	Portuguese (pt) William Adams		408
10	Polish (pl) William Adams (żeglarz)		354

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William Adams (samurai)		469
2	German (de) William Adams (Weltreisender)		137
3	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・アダムス		125
4	French (fr) William Adams (navigateur anglais)		93
5	Dutch (nl) William Adams		72
6	Spanish (es) William Adams (marino)		53
7	Chinese (zh) 三浦按針		49
8	Italian (it) William Adams		48
9	Russian (ru) Адамс, Уильям (штурман)		48
10	Hebrew (he) ויליאם אדמס		28

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 Adams (samurai)		7
2	Chinese (zh) 三浦按針		2
3	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・アダムス		1
4	Polish (pl) William Adams (żeglarz)		1
5	Russian (ru) Адамс, Уильям (штурман)		1
6	Arabic (ar) ويليام آدمز		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Vilyam Adams (şturman)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Уилям Адамс		0
9	Czech (cs) William Adams		0
10	German (de) William Adams (Weltreisender)		0

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

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