Bill Cosby

Quality:

Bill Cosby - American actor and comedian (born 1937). This person is the 845th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article "Bill Cosby" in Simple English Wikipedia has 80.5 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 60 references and 15 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 1306th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 2769th most popular in all topics.
The 3508th most popular in AI.
The 845th most popular in people.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 3111th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 2871st most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Bill Cosby", its content was written by 68 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1306th place) and edited by 4073 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3508th place).

Bill Cosby is on the 845th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 52 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6845 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #93 in January 2016
  • Global: #83 in September 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #1637 in April 2018
  • Global: #86 in September 2018

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 August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Bill Cosby
94.5995
2Spanish (es)
Bill Cosby
85.5
3Simple English (simple)
Bill Cosby
80.4832
4Italian (it)
Bill Cosby
65.5796
5German (de)
Bill Cosby
65.117
6Arabic (ar)
بيل كوسبي
59.6969
7Polish (pl)
Bill Cosby
52.4211
8Vietnamese (vi)
Bill Cosby
47.4132
9Portuguese (pt)
Bill Cosby
45.8528
10Hebrew (he)
ביל קוסבי
44.7265
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Bill Cosby" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Bill Cosby
40 548 407
2German (de)
Bill Cosby
3 113 121
3Italian (it)
Bill Cosby
2 294 608
4Spanish (es)
Bill Cosby
1 821 612
5French (fr)
Bill Cosby
1 393 895
6Russian (ru)
Косби, Билл
737 002
7Polish (pl)
Bill Cosby
705 180
8Portuguese (pt)
Bill Cosby
586 730
9Dutch (nl)
Bill Cosby
415 831
10Swedish (sv)
Bill Cosby
312 357
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Bill Cosby" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Bill Cosby
209 724
2German (de)
Bill Cosby
12 594
3Italian (it)
Bill Cosby
11 034
4Spanish (es)
Bill Cosby
9 405
5Russian (ru)
Косби, Билл
7 779
6Portuguese (pt)
Bill Cosby
7 718
7French (fr)
Bill Cosby
7 042
8Polish (pl)
Bill Cosby
3 757
9Dutch (nl)
Bill Cosby
1 690
10Japanese (ja)
ビル・コスビー
1 343
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Bill Cosby" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Bill Cosby
2 373
2German (de)
Bill Cosby
264
3Italian (it)
Bill Cosby
195
4French (fr)
Bill Cosby
144
5Spanish (es)
Bill Cosby
122
6Hebrew (he)
ביל קוסבי
91
7Dutch (nl)
Bill Cosby
91
8Simple English (simple)
Bill Cosby
68
9Polish (pl)
Bill Cosby
56
10Finnish (fi)
Bill Cosby
50
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Bill Cosby" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Bill Cosby
5
2Italian (it)
Bill Cosby
3
3German (de)
Bill Cosby
2
4Japanese (ja)
ビル・コスビー
2
5Spanish (es)
Bill Cosby
1
6Serbian (sr)
Бил Козби
1
7Turkish (tr)
Bill Cosby
1
8Arabic (ar)
بيل كوسبي
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Бил Козби
0
10Catalan (ca)
Bill Cosby
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Bill Cosby" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Bill Cosby
2 433
2Polish (pl)
Bill Cosby
390
3French (fr)
Bill Cosby
375
4Russian (ru)
Косби, Билл
337
5Persian (fa)
بیل کازبی
322
6Portuguese (pt)
Bill Cosby
294
7Italian (it)
Bill Cosby
240
8German (de)
Bill Cosby
231
9Hebrew (he)
ביל קוסבי
216
10Turkish (tr)
Bill Cosby
187
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
بيل كوسبي
bgBulgarian
Бил Козби
caCatalan
Bill Cosby
csCzech
Bill Cosby
daDanish
Bill Cosby
deGerman
Bill Cosby
elGreek
Μπιλ Κόσμπι
enEnglish
Bill Cosby
eoEsperanto
Bill Cosby
esSpanish
Bill Cosby
etEstonian
Bill Cosby
euBasque
Bill Cosby
faPersian
بیل کازبی
fiFinnish
Bill Cosby
frFrench
Bill Cosby
glGalician
Bill Cosby
heHebrew
ביל קוסבי
hrCroatian
Bill Cosby
huHungarian
Bill Cosby
hyArmenian
Բիլ Քոսբի
idIndonesian
Bill Cosby
itItalian
Bill Cosby
jaJapanese
ビル・コスビー
koKorean
빌 코스비
laLatin
Gulielmus Cosby
nlDutch
Bill Cosby
noNorwegian
Bill Cosby
plPolish
Bill Cosby
ptPortuguese
Bill Cosby
roRomanian
Bill Cosby
ruRussian
Косби, Билл
shSerbo-Croatian
Bill Cosby
simpleSimple English
Bill Cosby
skSlovak
Bill Cosby
slSlovenian
Bill Cosby
srSerbian
Бил Козби
svSwedish
Bill Cosby
trTurkish
Bill Cosby
ukUkrainian
Білл Косбі
viVietnamese
Bill Cosby
voVolapük
Bill Cosby
zhChinese
比爾·寇司比
zhminnanMin Nan
Bill Cosby

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1637
04.2018
Global:
#86
09.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#93
01.2016
Global:
#83
09.2018

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Bill Cosby from Wikipedia articles about The Cosby Show, Bill Cosby sexual assault cases, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Cosby and Little Bill. Whereas reading the article about Bill Cosby people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Camille Cosby, Ennis Cosby, Erika Ranee, Bill Cosby sexual assault cases and The Cosby Show.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Bill Cosby
zhminnan: Bill Cosby

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