William Thomson

Quality:

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin - British physicist and engineer (1824–1907). This person is the 9692^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “William Thomson” in Galician Wikipedia has 4.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.25 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Galician Wikipedia:

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The 7411^th most editable in Galician Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7546^th most popular in AI.

The 9692^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9764^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “William Thomson”, its content was written by 33 registered users of Galician Wikipedia (7411^th place) and edited by 2948 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7546^th place).

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin is on the 9692^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 83 times in Galician Wikipedia and cited 8638 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Galician): #436 in May 2021
• Global: #893 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Galician): #1331 in March 2025
• Global: #21256 in February 2015

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, 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) Lord Kelvin		91.8815
2	Chinese (zh) 开尔文勋爵		90.0268
3	Czech (cs) William Thomson		53.3386
4	Catalan (ca) William Thomson		50.3872
5	Malay (ms) William Thomson, Baron Pertama Kelvin		49.0065
6	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		46.5776
7	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		45.524
8	Spanish (es) William Thomson		43.8991
9	Swedish (sv) Lord Kelvin		40.4789
10	Hebrew (he) ויליאם תומסון		40.4004

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lord Kelvin		4 599 009
2	Spanish (es) William Thomson		2 000 387
3	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		674 384
4	Portuguese (pt) Lorde Kelvin		442 469
5	Russian (ru) Томсон, Уильям (лорд Кельвин)		437 971
6	French (fr) William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)		369 871
7	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		303 967
8	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・トムソン		298 377
9	Polish (pl) William Thomson		274 602
10	Chinese (zh) 开尔文勋爵		167 891

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) Lord Kelvin		17 397
2	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		1 779
3	Spanish (es) William Thomson		1 711
4	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・トムソン		1 216
5	Russian (ru) Томсон, Уильям (лорд Кельвин)		1 127
6	French (fr) William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)		922
7	Chinese (zh) 开尔文勋爵		903
8	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		682
9	Polish (pl) William Thomson		640
10	Portuguese (pt) Lorde Kelvin		597

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lord Kelvin		799
2	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		261
3	French (fr) William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)		170
4	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		170
5	Spanish (es) William Thomson		155
6	Dutch (nl) William Thomson (natuurkundige)		108
7	Russian (ru) Томсон, Уильям (лорд Кельвин)		97
8	Hebrew (he) ויליאם תומסון		94
9	Polish (pl) William Thomson		68
10	Hungarian (hu) William Thomson (matematikus)		65

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) Lord Kelvin		7
2	Thai (th) ลอร์ดเคลวิน		3
3	Catalan (ca) William Thomson		2
4	Persian (fa) ویلیام تامسون		2
5	Czech (cs) William Thomson		1
6	Hebrew (he) ויליאם תומסון		1
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) William Thomson, 1. baron Kelvin		1
8	Slovak (sk) William Thomson		1
9	Serbian (sr) Вилијам Томсон, 1. барон Келвин		1
10	Turkish (tr) William Thomson		1

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

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