D. B. Cooper

Quality:

D. B. Cooper - unidentified man who hijacked an airplane in 1971. This person is the 1734^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 989^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “D. B. Cooper” in Simple English Wikipedia has 64.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 44 references and 3 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 7311^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4544^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 989^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5929^th most popular in all topics.

The 6540^th most popular in AI.

The 1734^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3898^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4512^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “D. B. Cooper”, its content was written by 37 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4544^th place) and edited by 3118 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6540^th place).

D. B. Cooper is on the 989^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1734^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 12 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 943 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #84 in October 2024
• Global: #342 in June 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #651 in July 2011
• Global: #177 in June 2021

There are 38 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) D. B. Cooper		98.7497
2	Indonesian (id) D. B. Cooper		97.1429
3	Catalan (ca) D. B. Cooper		87.5185
4	Japanese (ja) D.B.クーパー事件		85.1651
5	Esperanto (eo) D. B. Cooper		78.9286
6	Polish (pl) D.B. Cooper		75.6516
7	German (de) D. B. Cooper		73.1784
8	Spanish (es) D. B. Cooper		70.1298
9	Czech (cs) D. B. Cooper		66.2702
10	Simple English (simple) D. B. Cooper		64.1947

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) D. B. Cooper		27 371 058
2	Spanish (es) D. B. Cooper		1 383 958
3	Russian (ru) Ди Би Купер		1 219 757
4	German (de) D. B. Cooper		1 161 760
5	Japanese (ja) D.B.クーパー事件		962 970
6	French (fr) D. B. Cooper		842 302
7	Italian (it) D. B. Cooper		647 317
8	Polish (pl) D.B. Cooper		561 078
9	Portuguese (pt) D. B. Cooper		514 085
10	Chinese (zh) D·B·庫柏		451 129

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) D. B. Cooper		124 782
2	Russian (ru) Ди Би Купер		11 946
3	German (de) D. B. Cooper		9 931
4	Spanish (es) D. B. Cooper		6 324
5	French (fr) D. B. Cooper		4 927
6	Japanese (ja) D.B.クーパー事件		4 003
7	Portuguese (pt) D. B. Cooper		3 759
8	Italian (it) D. B. Cooper		3 681
9	Turkish (tr) D. B. Cooper		2 670
10	Polish (pl) D.B. Cooper		2 254

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) D. B. Cooper		1 602
2	German (de) D. B. Cooper		166
3	French (fr) D. B. Cooper		154
4	Russian (ru) Ди Би Купер		151
5	Hebrew (he) די. בי. קופר		119
6	Italian (it) D. B. Cooper		109
7	Spanish (es) D. B. Cooper		75
8	Japanese (ja) D.B.クーパー事件		68
9	Dutch (nl) D.B. Cooper		65
10	Polish (pl) D.B. Cooper		65

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) D. B. Cooper		7
2	Persian (fa) دی.بی. کوپر		2
3	Japanese (ja) D.B.クーパー事件		2
4	Arabic (ar) دي. بي. كوبر		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) D.B.Kuper		1
6	Czech (cs) D. B. Cooper		1
7	French (fr) D. B. Cooper		1
8	Polish (pl) D.B. Cooper		1
9	Chinese (zh) D·B·庫柏		1
10	Bulgarian (bg) Д. Б. Купър		0

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

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