Charles Whitman (massemorder)

Quality:

Charles Whitman - American mass murderer and spree killer; perpetrator of the University of Texas Tower shooting (1941–1966). This person is the 7000^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Charles Whitman (massemorder)” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 21.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7000^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Charles Whitman (massemorder)”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 1579 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Charles Whitman is on the 7000^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 347 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #2679 in November 2024
• Global: #1219 in April 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #38139 in October 2022
• Global: #1588 in June 2015

There are 22 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) Charles Whitman		96.7501
2	Ukrainian (uk) Чарльз Вітмен		64.028
3	Spanish (es) Charles Whitman		62.3574
4	Portuguese (pt) Charles Whitman		53.7133
5	Japanese (ja) チャールズ・ホイットマン		46.8199
6	German (de) Charles Joseph Whitman		42.8397
7	Chinese (zh) 查爾斯·惠特曼		40.1093
8	Turkish (tr) Charles Whitman		31.4891
9	Armenian (hy) Չարլզ Ուիթմեն		26.1739
10	French (fr) Charles Whitman		24.2797

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Charles Whitman		12 023 240
2	Russian (ru) Уитмен, Чарльз		757 771
3	Spanish (es) Charles Whitman		497 391
4	French (fr) Charles Whitman		309 077
5	Italian (it) Charles Whitman		198 767
6	Polish (pl) Charles Whitman		124 826
7	Japanese (ja) チャールズ・ホイットマン		110 201
8	Finnish (fi) Charles Whitman		78 089
9	Portuguese (pt) Charles Whitman		75 270
10	Chinese (zh) 查爾斯·惠特曼		61 482

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) Charles Whitman		25 188
2	Russian (ru) Уитмен, Чарльз		2 858
3	Japanese (ja) チャールズ・ホイットマン		1 220
4	Spanish (es) Charles Whitman		957
5	German (de) Charles Joseph Whitman		947
6	Italian (it) Charles Whitman		852
7	Polish (pl) Charles Whitman		445
8	French (fr) Charles Whitman		439
9	Chinese (zh) 查爾斯·惠特曼		254
10	Portuguese (pt) Charles Whitman		213

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Charles Whitman		931
2	German (de) Charles Joseph Whitman		133
3	Russian (ru) Уитмен, Чарльз		85
4	French (fr) Charles Whitman		79
5	Hebrew (he) צ'ארלס ויטמן		68
6	Italian (it) Charles Whitman		57
7	Spanish (es) Charles Whitman		40
8	Polish (pl) Charles Whitman		30
9	Finnish (fi) Charles Whitman		21
10	Chinese (zh) 查爾斯·惠特曼		21

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	Arabic (ar) تشارلز ويتمان		1
2	Finnish (fi) Charles Whitman		1
3	Italian (it) Charles Whitman		1
4	Polish (pl) Charles Whitman		1
5	Russian (ru) Уитмен, Чарльз		1
6	German (de) Charles Joseph Whitman		0
7	English (en) Charles Whitman		0
8	Spanish (es) Charles Whitman		0
9	Persian (fa) چارلز ویتمن		0
10	French (fr) Charles Whitman		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Norwegian Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Forside, Antonio Nusa, VM i fotball 2026, Den demokratiske republikken Kongo, VM i fotball 1998, Erling Braut Haaland, Patrick Berg, Elfenbenskysten, Senegal, Oscar Bobb.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information