Lou Reed

Quality:

Lou Reed - American rock musician (1942–2013). This person is the 2015^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Lou Reed” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 78.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 84 references and 19 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:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

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The 6421^st most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7029^th most popular in all topics.

The 7320^th most popular in AI.

The 2015^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

no

The 2703^rd most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9907^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Lou Reed” was edited by 1 authors in Norwegian Wikipedia (2703^rd place) and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Lou Reed”, its content was written by 69 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia (6421^st place) and edited by 2949 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7320^th place).

Lou Reed is on the 2015^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 154 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 11125 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #25 in October 2013
• Global: #6 in October 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #330 in October 2013
• Global: #14 in October 2013

There are 45 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) Lou Reed		97.2633
2	Russian (ru) Рид, Лу		85.0874
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Lou Reed		82.5
4	German (de) Lou Reed		82.1333
5	Italian (it) Lou Reed		82.109
6	Czech (cs) Lou Reed		81.7143
7	Norwegian (no) Lou Reed		78.6833
8	French (fr) Lou Reed		55.7143
9	Dutch (nl) Lou Reed		47.5605
10	Armenian (hy) Լու Ռիդ		41.5555

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lou Reed		20 174 280
2	Spanish (es) Lou Reed		2 110 656
3	Italian (it) Lou Reed		2 096 961
4	French (fr) Lou Reed		1 968 429
5	German (de) Lou Reed		1 875 957
6	Japanese (ja) ルー・リード		1 142 245
7	Russian (ru) Рид, Лу		968 815
8	Portuguese (pt) Lou Reed		689 840
9	Dutch (nl) Lou Reed		521 629
10	Polish (pl) Lou Reed		499 330

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) Lou Reed		77 817
2	Italian (it) Lou Reed		5 652
3	German (de) Lou Reed		5 590
4	Spanish (es) Lou Reed		4 922
5	French (fr) Lou Reed		4 788
6	Japanese (ja) ルー・リード		4 170
7	Russian (ru) Рид, Лу		3 307
8	Portuguese (pt) Lou Reed		1 993
9	Dutch (nl) Lou Reed		1 323
10	Simple English (simple) Lou Reed		1 117

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lou Reed		954
2	German (de) Lou Reed		232
3	French (fr) Lou Reed		232
4	Italian (it) Lou Reed		189
5	Dutch (nl) Lou Reed		111
6	Spanish (es) Lou Reed		108
7	Russian (ru) Рид, Лу		96
8	Hebrew (he) לו ריד		93
9	Portuguese (pt) Lou Reed		74
10	Norwegian (no) Lou Reed		69

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	Russian (ru) Рид, Лу		2
2	Turkish (tr) Lou Reed		2
3	Czech (cs) Lou Reed		1
4	German (de) Lou Reed		1
5	English (en) Lou Reed		1
6	Spanish (es) Lou Reed		1
7	Persian (fa) لو رید		1
8	Galician (gl) Lou Reed		1
9	Japanese (ja) ルー・リード		1
10	Korean (ko) 루 리드		1

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