Bill Cosby

Quality:

Bill Cosby - American actor and comedian (born 1937). This person is the 861^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 767^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Bill Cosby” in Simple English Wikipedia has 73.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 60 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.88 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5797^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1007^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 767^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2673^rd most popular in all topics.

The 3451^st most popular in AI.

The 861^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1067^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2482^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3552^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7862^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Bill Cosby” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2482^nd place) and written by 23 authors in all languages (7862^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Bill Cosby”, its content was written by 84 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1007^th place) and edited by 4278 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3451^st place).

Bill Cosby is on the 767^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 861^st place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 51 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7310 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #42 in April 2025
• Global: #83 in September 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #349 in February 2025
• Global: #87 in September 2018

There are 44 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, 2026 (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) Bill Cosby		94.7155
2	Korean (ko) 빌 코스비		94.5249
3	Spanish (es) Bill Cosby		85.5
4	Simple English (simple) Bill Cosby		73.6854
5	Italian (it) Bill Cosby		64.267
6	German (de) Bill Cosby		61.8342
7	Arabic (ar) بيل كوسبي		59.2213
8	Polish (pl) Bill Cosby		51.9477
9	French (fr) Bill Cosby		46.6741
10	Vietnamese (vi) Bill Cosby		46.5624

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bill Cosby		45 148 647
2	German (de) Bill Cosby		3 456 851
3	Italian (it) Bill Cosby		2 527 393
4	Spanish (es) Bill Cosby		2 035 660
5	French (fr) Bill Cosby		1 556 528
6	Russian (ru) Косби, Билл		847 573
7	Polish (pl) Bill Cosby		773 872
8	Portuguese (pt) Bill Cosby		654 219
9	Dutch (nl) Bill Cosby		459 312
10	Swedish (sv) Bill Cosby		339 349

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) Bill Cosby		150 314
2	German (de) Bill Cosby		10 718
3	Italian (it) Bill Cosby		8 023
4	Spanish (es) Bill Cosby		6 173
5	French (fr) Bill Cosby		4 981
6	Russian (ru) Косби, Билл		2 907
7	Portuguese (pt) Bill Cosby		2 230
8	Polish (pl) Bill Cosby		1 826
9	Dutch (nl) Bill Cosby		1 243
10	Simple English (simple) Bill Cosby		895

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bill Cosby		2 453
2	German (de) Bill Cosby		279
3	Italian (it) Bill Cosby		200
4	French (fr) Bill Cosby		175
5	Spanish (es) Bill Cosby		133
6	Hebrew (he) ביל קוסבי		97
7	Dutch (nl) Bill Cosby		93
8	Simple English (simple) Bill Cosby		84
9	Polish (pl) Bill Cosby		59
10	Finnish (fi) Bill Cosby		54

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) Bill Cosby		5
2	Korean (ko) 빌 코스비		3
3	Arabic (ar) بيل كوسبي		2
4	Catalan (ca) Bill Cosby		2
5	Spanish (es) Bill Cosby		2
6	Hebrew (he) ביל קוסבי		2
7	Japanese (ja) ビル・コスビー		2
8	Finnish (fi) Bill Cosby		1
9	French (fr) Bill Cosby		1
10	Polish (pl) Bill Cosby		1

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

On 16 March 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Sinners, Jessie Buckley, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Penn, One Battle After Another, Amy Madigan, Hamnet, Timothée Chalamet.

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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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information