Orson Welles

Quality:

Orson Welles - American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985). This person is the 1201^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Orson Welles” in French Wikipedia has 77 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 145 references and 42 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.55 points.

This article has the best quality in Italian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 4479^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 2425^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3924^th most popular in all topics.

The 3271^st most popular in AI.

The 1201^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 8070^th most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5305^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Orson Welles” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Orson Welles”, its content was written by 371 registered users of French Wikipedia (2425^th place) and edited by 4326 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3271^st place).

Orson Welles is on the 1201^st place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1860 times in French Wikipedia and cited 20216 times in all languages (8192^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #644 in March 2008
• Global: #107 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #864 in May 2015
• Global: #1020 in December 2020

There are 52 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	Italian (it) Orson Welles		100
2	Indonesian (id) Orson Welles		97.9209
3	English (en) Orson Welles		97.7865
4	French (fr) Orson Welles		76.9786
5	German (de) Orson Welles		65.4042
6	Hebrew (he) אורסון ולס		57.217
7	Croatian (hr) Orson Welles		55.7381
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Orson Welles		54.1866
9	Spanish (es) Orson Welles		45.1793
10	Hungarian (hu) Orson Welles		44.7066

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Orson Welles		28 368 274
2	Spanish (es) Orson Welles		3 581 613
3	French (fr) Orson Welles		2 748 705
4	German (de) Orson Welles		2 603 950
5	Italian (it) Orson Welles		2 365 235
6	Russian (ru) Уэллс, Орсон		1 321 664
7	Japanese (ja) オーソン・ウェルズ		1 040 841
8	Portuguese (pt) Orson Welles		856 755
9	Polish (pl) Orson Welles		569 400
10	Persian (fa) اورسن ولز		392 082

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) Orson Welles		112 023
2	Spanish (es) Orson Welles		9 918
3	German (de) Orson Welles		8 993
4	French (fr) Orson Welles		8 270
5	Italian (it) Orson Welles		7 554
6	Russian (ru) Уэллс, Орсон		5 987
7	Japanese (ja) オーソン・ウェルズ		3 388
8	Portuguese (pt) Orson Welles		2 627
9	Polish (pl) Orson Welles		1 537
10	Persian (fa) اورسن ولز		1 224

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Orson Welles		1 464
2	French (fr) Orson Welles		371
3	German (de) Orson Welles		329
4	Italian (it) Orson Welles		265
5	Spanish (es) Orson Welles		185
6	Russian (ru) Уэллс, Орсон		147
7	Japanese (ja) オーソン・ウェルズ		97
8	Dutch (nl) Orson Welles		97
9	Polish (pl) Orson Welles		93
10	Hebrew (he) אורסון ולס		90

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) Orson Welles		4
2	Catalan (ca) Orson Welles		1
3	Danish (da) Orson Welles		1
4	German (de) Orson Welles		1
5	Spanish (es) Orson Welles		1
6	French (fr) Orson Welles		1
7	Indonesian (id) Orson Welles		1
8	Japanese (ja) オーソン・ウェルズ		1
9	Romanian (ro) Orson Welles		1
10	Russian (ru) Уэллс, Орсон		1

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

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