Canute

Quality:

Cnut the Great - 11th-century King of Denmark, Norway, and England. This person is the 2732^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 550^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Canute” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 6 sections.

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 4536^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 550^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9806^th most popular in all topics.

The 9705^th most popular in AI.

The 2732^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5748^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7322^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Canute”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2563 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9705^th place).

Cnut the Great is on the 550^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2732^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 87 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10360 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #403 in March 2009
• Global: #911 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #175 in March 2022
• Global: #156 in March 2022

There are 51 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) Cnut		99.8459
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Knut den mektige		98.75
3	Thai (th) พระเจ้าคนุตมหาราช		97.8296
4	French (fr) Knut le Grand		84.2058
5	Greek (el) Κνούτος		80.8623
6	Russian (ru) Кнуд Великий		77.7413
7	Japanese (ja) クヌート1世 (イングランド王)		69.2161
8	Hungarian (hu) II. Knut dán király		67.6032
9	Catalan (ca) Canut II de Dinamarca		64.0407
10	Dutch (nl) Knoet de Grote		56.205

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cnut		16 050 314
2	Spanish (es) Canuto II de Dinamarca		1 635 428
3	Russian (ru) Кнуд Великий		1 189 302
4	German (de) Knut der Große		1 076 120
5	French (fr) Knut le Grand		1 063 714
6	Polish (pl) Knut Wielki		1 024 855
7	Japanese (ja) クヌート1世 (イングランド王)		815 760
8	Italian (it) Canuto il Grande		592 704
9	Portuguese (pt) Canuto II da Dinamarca		520 950
10	Dutch (nl) Knoet de Grote		362 280

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) Cnut		93 170
2	Spanish (es) Canuto II de Dinamarca		9 842
3	Russian (ru) Кнуд Великий		9 308
4	French (fr) Knut le Grand		6 884
5	German (de) Knut der Große		6 030
6	Polish (pl) Knut Wielki		5 818
7	Italian (it) Canuto il Grande		4 507
8	Japanese (ja) クヌート1世 (イングランド王)		4 142
9	Portuguese (pt) Canuto II da Dinamarca		3 465
10	Chinese (zh) 克努特大帝		2 141

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cnut		776
2	French (fr) Knut le Grand		141
3	German (de) Knut der Große		140
4	Italian (it) Canuto il Grande		112
5	Danish (da) Knud den Store		105
6	Russian (ru) Кнуд Великий		103
7	Dutch (nl) Knoet de Grote		94
8	Polish (pl) Knut Wielki		84
9	Norwegian (no) Knut den mektige		70
10	Spanish (es) Canuto II de Dinamarca		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	Arabic (ar) كنوت العظيم		4
2	English (en) Cnut		4
3	Korean (ko) 크누트 대왕		2
4	Portuguese (pt) Canuto II da Dinamarca		2
5	Slovenian (sl) Knut Veliki		2
6	Thai (th) พระเจ้าคนุตมหาราช		2
7	Chinese (zh) 克努特大帝		2
8	German (de) Knut der Große		1
9	French (fr) Knut le Grand		1
10	Hebrew (he) קנוט הגדול		1

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

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