Charles Dickens

Quality:

Charles Dickens - English novelist and social critic (1812–1870). This person is the 380^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 228^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Charles Dickens” in Simple English Wikipedia has 45.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 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 2104^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 565^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 228^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1094^th most popular in all topics.

The 835^th most popular in AI.

The 380^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5194^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3661^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4757^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Charles Dickens”, its content was written by 107 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (565^th place) and edited by 6810 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (835^th place).

Charles Dickens is on the 228^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 380^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 121 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 22460 times in all languages (7390^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #9 in January 2007
• Global: #18 in February 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #221 in November 2011
• Global: #9 in February 2012

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	English (en) Charles Dickens		95.2645
2	French (fr) Charles Dickens		95
3	Esperanto (eo) Charles Dickens		94.2857
4	Bulgarian (bg) Чарлз Дикенс		94.007
5	Ukrainian (uk) Чарлз Дікенс		76.8118
6	Greek (el) Κάρολος Ντίκενς		74.7027
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Charles Dickens		72.5
8	Dutch (nl) Charles Dickens		70.6365
9	Norwegian (no) Charles Dickens		66.065
10	Volapük (vo) Charles Dickens		63.7614

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Charles Dickens		42 957 792
2	Spanish (es) Charles Dickens		8 729 755
3	Russian (ru) Диккенс, Чарльз		5 112 180
4	Italian (it) Charles Dickens		4 618 579
5	French (fr) Charles Dickens		4 069 177
6	German (de) Charles Dickens		3 844 425
7	Japanese (ja) チャールズ・ディケンズ		2 078 669
8	Portuguese (pt) Charles Dickens		1 839 690
9	Polish (pl) Charles Dickens		1 626 182
10	Chinese (zh) 查尔斯·狄更斯		1 260 473

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) Charles Dickens		120 550
2	Spanish (es) Charles Dickens		14 492
3	Russian (ru) Диккенс, Чарльз		13 239
4	Italian (it) Charles Dickens		8 340
5	German (de) Charles Dickens		7 557
6	French (fr) Charles Dickens		7 134
7	Japanese (ja) チャールズ・ディケンズ		5 792
8	Portuguese (pt) Charles Dickens		4 782
9	Chinese (zh) 查尔斯·狄更斯		4 371
10	Persian (fa) چارلز دیکنز		2 584

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Charles Dickens		1 927
2	German (de) Charles Dickens		493
3	French (fr) Charles Dickens		463
4	Italian (it) Charles Dickens		351
5	Spanish (es) Charles Dickens		335
6	Russian (ru) Диккенс, Чарльз		254
7	Swedish (sv) Charles Dickens		231
8	Dutch (nl) Charles Dickens		202
9	Polish (pl) Charles Dickens		148
10	Norwegian (no) Charles Dickens		144

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) Charles Dickens		8
2	French (fr) Charles Dickens		7
3	German (de) Charles Dickens		3
4	Persian (fa) چارلز دیکنز		2
5	Turkish (tr) Charles Dickens		2
6	Estonian (et) Charles Dickens		1
7	Hebrew (he) צ'ארלס דיקנס		1
8	Croatian (hr) Charles Dickens		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Charles Dickens		1
10	Swedish (sv) Charles Dickens		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