H.C. Andersen

Quality:

Hans Christian Andersen - Danish writer and poet (1805–1875). This person is the 1022^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 305^th most popular person in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “H.C. Andersen” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 56.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 72 references and 14 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

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The 1266^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia.

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The 620^th most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia.

The 305^th most popular in people in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3323^rd most popular in all topics.

The 1251^st most popular in AI.

The 1022^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

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The 3165^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7262^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6347^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “H.C. Andersen”, its content was written by 150 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia (620^th place) and edited by 5903 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1251^st place).

Hans Christian Andersen is on the 305^th place in local ranking of people in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 1022^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 766 times in Norwegian Wikipedia (4896^th place) and cited 16105 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #88 in February 2005
• Global: #85 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #237 in April 2010
• Global: #40 in April 2010

There are 55 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	Portuguese (pt) Hans Christian Andersen		100
2	Swedish (sv) H.C. Andersen		98.2183
3	Esperanto (eo) Hans Christian Andersen		97.3748
4	English (en) Hans Christian Andersen		90.507
5	French (fr) Hans Christian Andersen		89.1905
6	Bulgarian (bg) Ханс Кристиан Андерсен		83.2123
7	Italian (it) Hans Christian Andersen		78.8965
8	Catalan (ca) Hans Christian Andersen		76.9727
9	Latin (la) Ioannes Christianus Andersen		73.2947
10	Danish (da) H.C. Andersen		71.9571

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hans Christian Andersen		14 514 166
2	Russian (ru) Андерсен, Ханс Кристиан		5 420 913
3	Spanish (es) Hans Christian Andersen		4 794 260
4	German (de) Hans Christian Andersen		2 961 650
5	Japanese (ja) ハンス・クリスチャン・アンデルセン		2 707 253
6	French (fr) Hans Christian Andersen		2 222 326
7	Polish (pl) Hans Christian Andersen		2 208 300
8	Danish (da) H.C. Andersen		2 168 924
9	Chinese (zh) 漢斯·安徒生		1 422 387
10	Italian (it) Hans Christian Andersen		1 422 149

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) Hans Christian Andersen		53 633
2	Russian (ru) Андерсен, Ханс Кристиан		13 306
3	German (de) Hans Christian Andersen		10 308
4	Japanese (ja) ハンス・クリスチャン・アンデルセン		10 011
5	Spanish (es) Hans Christian Andersen		9 779
6	Chinese (zh) 漢斯·安徒生		5 276
7	French (fr) Hans Christian Andersen		5 084
8	Portuguese (pt) Hans Christian Andersen		3 536
9	Danish (da) H.C. Andersen		3 415
10	Italian (it) Hans Christian Andersen		3 389

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hans Christian Andersen		1 139
2	German (de) Hans Christian Andersen		464
3	Russian (ru) Андерсен, Ханс Кристиан		375
4	French (fr) Hans Christian Andersen		324
5	Danish (da) H.C. Andersen		263
6	Spanish (es) Hans Christian Andersen		236
7	Italian (it) Hans Christian Andersen		220
8	Polish (pl) Hans Christian Andersen		202
9	Swedish (sv) H.C. Andersen		199
10	Dutch (nl) Hans Christian Andersen		182

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) Hans Christian Andersen		4
2	Czech (cs) Hans Christian Andersen		3
3	Finnish (fi) H. C. Andersen		2
4	Croatian (hr) Hans Christian Andersen		2
5	Russian (ru) Андерсен, Ханс Кристиан		2
6	Chinese (zh) 漢斯·安徒生		2
7	Catalan (ca) Hans Christian Andersen		1
8	Danish (da) H.C. Andersen		1
9	German (de) Hans Christian Andersen		1
10	Spanish (es) Hans Christian Andersen		1

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

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