Francis Drake

Quality:

Francis Drake - English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596). Pirate.. This person is the 2328^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Francis Drake” in Italian Wikipedia has 16.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.87 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 8069^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8174^th most popular in all topics.

The 3157^th most popular in AI.

The 2328^th most popular in people.

In June 2025 the article “Francis Drake” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Francis Drake”, its content was written by 171 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (8069^th place) and edited by 4386 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3157^th place).

Francis Drake is on the 2328^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 261 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 7360 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #557 in April 2005
• Global: #587 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #3504 in May 2016
• Global: #3909 in May 2016

There are 54 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) Francis Drake		97.2918
2	Russian (ru) Дрейк, Фрэнсис		83.8149
3	French (fr) Francis Drake		69.2862
4	Catalan (ca) Francis Drake		65.9012
5	German (de) Francis Drake		65.0095
6	Spanish (es) Francis Drake		56.7804
7	Romanian (ro) Francis Drake		50.7591
8	Hungarian (hu) Francis Drake		46.5817
9	Tamil (ta) பிரான்சிஸ் டிரேக்		38.7654
10	Simple English (simple) Francis Drake		37.2404

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Francis Drake		14 891 370
2	Spanish (es) Francis Drake		3 011 952
3	German (de) Francis Drake		2 526 676
4	Russian (ru) Дрейк, Фрэнсис		2 084 824
5	Japanese (ja) フランシス・ドレーク		1 875 338
6	French (fr) Francis Drake		1 210 274
7	Italian (it) Francis Drake		1 127 545
8	Polish (pl) Francis Drake		622 121
9	Portuguese (pt) Francis Drake		530 881
10	Chinese (zh) 法蘭西斯·德瑞克		386 913

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) Francis Drake		64 061
2	Spanish (es) Francis Drake		6 948
3	German (de) Francis Drake		6 151
4	Russian (ru) Дрейк, Фрэнсис		5 390
5	Japanese (ja) フランシス・ドレーク		4 504
6	Italian (it) Francis Drake		3 469
7	French (fr) Francis Drake		3 081
8	Chinese (zh) 法蘭西斯·德瑞克		1 612
9	Portuguese (pt) Francis Drake		1 524
10	Polish (pl) Francis Drake		1 352

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Francis Drake		1 371
2	German (de) Francis Drake		402
3	French (fr) Francis Drake		323
4	Spanish (es) Francis Drake		249
5	Russian (ru) Дрейк, Фрэнсис		178
6	Italian (it) Francis Drake		171
7	Dutch (nl) Francis Drake		100
8	Polish (pl) Francis Drake		100
9	Japanese (ja) フランシス・ドレーク		91
10	Hungarian (hu) Francis Drake		83

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) Francis Drake		4
2	Spanish (es) Francis Drake		4
3	Czech (cs) Francis Drake		1
4	Estonian (et) Francis Drake		1
5	Italian (it) Francis Drake		1
6	Russian (ru) Дрейк, Фрэнсис		1
7	Swedish (sv) Francis Drake		1
8	Turkish (tr) Francis Drake		1
9	Chinese (zh) 法蘭西斯·德瑞克		1
10	Arabic (ar) فرنسيس دريك		0

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