Benjamin Franklin

Quality:

Benjamin Franklin - American polymath and statesman (1706–1790). This person is the 304^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 157^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Benjamin Franklin” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 9 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1425^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 685^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 157^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 830^th most popular in all topics.

The 728^th most popular in AI.

The 304^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1378^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2176^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4356^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Benjamin Franklin”, its content was written by 98 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (685^th place) and edited by 7103 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (728^th place).

Benjamin Franklin is on the 157^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 304^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 271 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 21797 times in all languages (7595^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #34 in December 2013
• Global: #66 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #422 in January 2025
• Global: #254 in April 2024

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	Hindi (hi) बेंजामिन फ्रैंकलिन		99.9405
2	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		97.7662
3	Esperanto (eo) Benjamin Franklin		96.8452
4	Chinese (zh) 班哲文·富蘭克林		95.0622
5	English (en) Benjamin Franklin		93.5985
6	Vietnamese (vi) Benjamin Franklin		68.2392
7	Turkish (tr) Benjamin Franklin		66.4754
8	Polish (pl) Benjamin Franklin		65.7597
9	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		63.2045
10	Tamil (ta) பெஞ்சமின் பிராங்கிளின்		62.4709

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Benjamin Franklin		55 955 886
2	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		10 782 615
3	Russian (ru) Франклин, Бенджамин		5 067 918
4	French (fr) Benjamin Franklin		4 010 013
5	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		3 397 022
6	Portuguese (pt) Benjamin Franklin		2 672 079
7	Japanese (ja) ベンジャミン・フランクリン		2 453 544
8	Italian (it) Benjamin Franklin		1 690 085
9	Chinese (zh) 班哲文·富蘭克林		1 564 080
10	Polish (pl) Benjamin Franklin		1 450 177

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) Benjamin Franklin		160 420
2	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		18 830
3	Russian (ru) Франклин, Бенджамин		14 598
4	French (fr) Benjamin Franklin		11 975
5	Japanese (ja) ベンジャミン・フランクリン		10 384
6	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		9 421
7	Chinese (zh) 班哲文·富蘭克林		7 938
8	Portuguese (pt) Benjamin Franklin		7 442
9	Arabic (ar) بنجامين فرانكلين		6 066
10	Italian (it) Benjamin Franklin		4 674

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Benjamin Franklin		2 409
2	French (fr) Benjamin Franklin		548
3	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		420
4	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		400
5	Russian (ru) Франклин, Бенджамин		266
6	Italian (it) Benjamin Franklin		243
7	Hebrew (he) בנג'מין פרנקלין		172
8	Portuguese (pt) Benjamin Franklin		157
9	Dutch (nl) Benjamin Franklin		142
10	Chinese (zh) 班哲文·富蘭克林		141

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) Benjamin Franklin		10
2	Italian (it) Benjamin Franklin		5
3	Persian (fa) بنجامین فرانکلین		2
4	Serbian (sr) Бенџамин Френклин		2
5	Turkish (tr) Benjamin Franklin		2
6	Belarusian (be) Бенджамін Франклін		1
7	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		1
8	Basque (eu) Benjamin Franklin		1
9	Galician (gl) Benjamin Franklin		1
10	Hindi (hi) बेंजामिन फ्रैंकलिन		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