John Brown

Quality:

John Brown - American abolitionist (1800–1859). This person is the 3505^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “John Brown” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 31.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 4 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 9584^th most popular in AI.

The 3505^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3437^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “John Brown”, its content was written by 35 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 2579 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9584^th place).

John Brown is on the 3505^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 19 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 4449 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #1252 in July 2009
• Global: #3142 in July 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #2457 in November 2020
• Global: #1023 in April 2025

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	English (en) John Brown (abolitionist)		97.8038
2	Romanian (ro) John Brown		95.9999
3	Italian (it) John Brown (attivista)		94.4976
4	Simple English (simple) John Brown (abolitionist)		70.6213
5	Korean (ko) 존 브라운		65.7248
6	French (fr) John Brown		48.2285
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) John Brown (abolicionist)		46.6667
8	Finnish (fi) John Brown (abolitionisti)		44.9846
9	Japanese (ja) ジョン・ブラウン (奴隷制度廃止運動家)		43.3327
10	Malay (ms) John Brown		42.7129

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) John Brown (abolitionist)		19 169 881
2	German (de) John Brown (Abolitionist)		741 045
3	French (fr) John Brown		491 324
4	Russian (ru) Браун, Джон (аболиционист)		448 334
5	Spanish (es) John Brown (abolicionista)		440 766
6	Italian (it) John Brown (attivista)		320 750
7	Polish (pl) John Brown		243 443
8	Japanese (ja) ジョン・ブラウン (奴隷制度廃止運動家)		204 381
9	Chinese (zh) 约翰·布朗 (废奴主义者)		106 058
10	Portuguese (pt) John Brown (abolicionista)		89 201

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) John Brown (abolitionist)		182 865
2	Spanish (es) John Brown (abolicionista)		6 487
3	French (fr) John Brown		4 755
4	German (de) John Brown (Abolitionist)		4 590
5	Japanese (ja) ジョン・ブラウン (奴隷制度廃止運動家)		3 604
6	Russian (ru) Браун, Джон (аболиционист)		3 413
7	Chinese (zh) 约翰·布朗 (废奴主义者)		2 984
8	Italian (it) John Brown (attivista)		2 914
9	Portuguese (pt) John Brown (abolicionista)		2 888
10	Polish (pl) John Brown		1 325

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) John Brown (abolitionist)		1 353
2	German (de) John Brown (Abolitionist)		162
3	French (fr) John Brown		139
4	Italian (it) John Brown (attivista)		120
5	Russian (ru) Браун, Джон (аболиционист)		93
6	Hebrew (he) ג'ון בראון (מתנגד לעבדות)		60
7	Hungarian (hu) John Brown (politikus, 1800–1859)		50
8	Spanish (es) John Brown (abolicionista)		43
9	Chinese (zh) 约翰·布朗 (废奴主义者)		42
10	Japanese (ja) ジョン・ブラウン (奴隷制度廃止運動家)		40

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) John Brown (abolitionist)		4
2	Simple English (simple) John Brown (abolitionist)		3
3	Turkish (tr) John Brown (kölelik karşıtı)		3
4	Hebrew (he) ג'ון בראון (מתנגד לעבדות)		2
5	Chinese (zh) 约翰·布朗 (废奴主义者)		2
6	French (fr) John Brown		1
7	Japanese (ja) ジョン・ブラウン (奴隷制度廃止運動家)		1
8	Arabic (ar) جون براون		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Con Braun		0
10	Belarusian (be) Джон Браўн		0

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

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