William Paterson

William Paterson - Scottish soldier and botanist in Tasmania (1755-1810). Article “William Paterson” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 26.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 3 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “William Paterson” was edited by 1 authors in Portuguese Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “William Paterson”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 225 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 16 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 484 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #5012 in December 2023
• Global: #45207 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #183500 in February 2008
• Global: #869462 in January 2011

There are 9 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) William Paterson (explorer)		31.8894
2	Portuguese (pt) William Paterson		26.4631
3	Turkish (tr) William Paterson (kâşif)		24.9805
4	German (de) William Paterson (Entdecker)		18.3535
5	Russian (ru) Патерсон, Уильям (путешественник)		9.341
6	Indonesian (id) William Paterson (gubernur)		6.1394
7	Catalan (ca) William Paterson		4.7556
8	French (fr) William Paterson (botaniste)		3.9907
9	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・パターソン (探検家)		3.2108

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

The most popular language versions of the article "William Paterson" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Paterson (explorer)		93 680
2	French (fr) William Paterson (botaniste)		13 637
3	Russian (ru) Патерсон, Уильям (путешественник)		10 496
4	German (de) William Paterson (Entdecker)		9 148
5	Portuguese (pt) William Paterson		5 680
6	Indonesian (id) William Paterson (gubernur)		3 539
7	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・パターソン (探検家)		3 000
8	Catalan (ca) William Paterson		2 860
9	Turkish (tr) William Paterson (kâşif)		186

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "William Paterson" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Paterson (explorer)		442
2	German (de) William Paterson (Entdecker)		42
3	Russian (ru) Патерсон, Уильям (путешественник)		22
4	Portuguese (pt) William Paterson		20
5	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・パターソン (探検家)		14
6	Turkish (tr) William Paterson (kâşif)		9
7	Indonesian (id) William Paterson (gubernur)		6
8	French (fr) William Paterson (botaniste)		5
9	Catalan (ca) William Paterson		4

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

Language versions of the article "William Paterson" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William Paterson (explorer)		86
2	German (de) William Paterson (Entdecker)		60
3	French (fr) William Paterson (botaniste)		31
4	Portuguese (pt) William Paterson		14
5	Russian (ru) Патерсон, Уильям (путешественник)		11
6	Catalan (ca) William Paterson		8
7	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・パターソン (探検家)		7
8	Indonesian (id) William Paterson (gubernur)		5
9	Turkish (tr) William Paterson (kâşif)		3

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

Language versions of the article "William Paterson" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Portuguese (pt) William Paterson		1
2	Turkish (tr) William Paterson (kâşif)		1
3	Catalan (ca) William Paterson		0
4	German (de) William Paterson (Entdecker)		0
5	English (en) William Paterson (explorer)		0
6	French (fr) William Paterson (botaniste)		0
7	Indonesian (id) William Paterson (gubernur)		0
8	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・パターソン (探検家)		0
9	Russian (ru) Патерсон, Уильям (путешественник)		0

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

Language versions of the article "William Paterson" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) William Paterson (explorer)		299
2	French (fr) William Paterson (botaniste)		60
3	German (de) William Paterson (Entdecker)		45
4	Russian (ru) Патерсон, Уильям (путешественник)		45
5	Portuguese (pt) William Paterson		16
6	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・パターソン (探検家)		10
7	Catalan (ca) William Paterson		5
8	Indonesian (id) William Paterson (gubernur)		2
9	Turkish (tr) William Paterson (kâşif)		2

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan William Paterson
de	German William Paterson (Entdecker)
en	English William Paterson (explorer)
fr	French William Paterson (botaniste)
id	Indonesian William Paterson (gubernur)
ja	Japanese ウィリアム・パターソン (探検家)
pt	Portuguese William Paterson
ru	Russian Патерсон, Уильям (путешественник)
tr	Turkish William Paterson (kâşif)

Best Rank

Portuguese: #183500 02.2008

Global: #869462 01.2011

Best Rank

Portuguese: #5012 12.2023

Global: #45207 04.2005

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