William S. Burroughs

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William S. Burroughs - American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997). This person is the 3365^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “William S. Burroughs” in Italian Wikipedia has 29 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.52 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8705^th most popular in AI.

The 3365^th most popular in people.

In June 2025 the article “William S. Burroughs” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “William S. Burroughs”, its content was written by 131 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 2709 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8705^th place).

William S. Burroughs is on the 3365^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 316 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 5389 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #304 in February 2005
• Global: #283 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #736 in April 2025
• Global: #3145 in December 2024

There are 43 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	Russian (ru) Берроуз, Уильям Сьюард		89.8245
2	English (en) William S. Burroughs		85.3879
3	Latin (la) Gulielmus Seward Burroughs II		65.3994
4	Armenian (hy) Ուիլյամ Սյուարդ Բերրոուզ		58.5073
5	Portuguese (pt) William S. Burroughs		58.2752
6	German (de) William S. Burroughs		55.0698
7	Swedish (sv) William S. Burroughs		52.1196
8	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Μπάροουζ		44.3168
9	Georgian (ka) უილიამ სიუარდ ბეროუზი		42.9524
10	Slovenian (sl) William S. Burroughs		40.6333

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William S. Burroughs		13 463 744
2	Russian (ru) Берроуз, Уильям Сьюард		2 777 629
3	Spanish (es) William Burroughs		1 452 868
4	Italian (it) William S. Burroughs		1 084 712
5	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・S・バロウズ		1 042 027
6	French (fr) William S. Burroughs		1 006 182
7	German (de) William S. Burroughs		980 970
8	Polish (pl) William S. Burroughs		350 931
9	Portuguese (pt) William S. Burroughs		302 969
10	Czech (cs) William Seward Burroughs		191 174

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 S. Burroughs		71 650
2	Russian (ru) Берроуз, Уильям Сьюард		7 076
3	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・S・バロウズ		5 956
4	Italian (it) William S. Burroughs		4 512
5	Spanish (es) William Burroughs		4 222
6	French (fr) William S. Burroughs		3 171
7	German (de) William S. Burroughs		3 057
8	Portuguese (pt) William S. Burroughs		1 134
9	Polish (pl) William S. Burroughs		1 012
10	Simple English (simple) William S. Burroughs		689

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William S. Burroughs		897
2	French (fr) William S. Burroughs		196
3	German (de) William S. Burroughs		189
4	Russian (ru) Берроуз, Уильям Сьюард		171
5	Italian (it) William S. Burroughs		131
6	Spanish (es) William Burroughs		95
7	Dutch (nl) William S. Burroughs II		75
8	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・S・バロウズ		68
9	Polish (pl) William S. Burroughs		58
10	Finnish (fi) William S. Burroughs		52

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 S. Burroughs		3
2	Catalan (ca) William Seward Burroughs		2
3	Russian (ru) Берроуз, Уильям Сьюард		2
4	Estonian (et) William Burroughs		1
5	Persian (fa) ویلیام اس. باروز		1
6	Italian (it) William S. Burroughs		1
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) William S. Burroughs		1
8	Turkish (tr) William S. Burroughs		1
9	Chinese (zh) 威廉·柏洛茲		1
10	Arabic (ar) ويليام بوروز		0

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

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