Ed Gein

Quality:

Ed Gein - American murderer and human trophy collector (1906-1984). This person is the 704^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 441^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Ed Gein” in Simple English Wikipedia has 71.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 70 references and 8 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 3715^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3108^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 441^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2187^th most popular in all topics.

The 6068^th most popular in AI.

The 704^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1872^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1612^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1287^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6722^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ed Gein” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1612^th place) and written by 25 authors in all languages (6722^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Ed Gein”, its content was written by 45 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3108^th place) and edited by 3235 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6068^th place).

Ed Gein is on the 441^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 704^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 795 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #336 in July 2012
• Global: #1886 in October 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #434 in October 2022
• Global: #103 in October 2022

There are 35 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) Ed Gein		88.2711
2	Indonesian (id) Ed Gein		79.1216
3	Simple English (simple) Ed Gein		71.667
4	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		54.7924
5	Finnish (fi) Ed Gein		51.2853
6	German (de) Ed Gein		47.4296
7	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		46.8507
8	French (fr) Ed Gein		44.8055
9	Danish (da) Ed Gein		43.021
10	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		41.1293

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ed Gein		38 821 378
2	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		4 011 340
3	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		3 330 652
4	German (de) Ed Gein		3 087 778
5	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		2 955 992
6	Italian (it) Ed Gein		2 307 720
7	French (fr) Ed Gein		2 091 457
8	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		1 344 449
9	Polish (pl) Ed Gein		1 260 926
10	Dutch (nl) Ed Gein		573 438

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) Ed Gein		277 009
2	German (de) Ed Gein		22 178
3	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		20 676
4	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		13 294
5	French (fr) Ed Gein		12 109
6	Italian (it) Ed Gein		8 779
7	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		8 745
8	Portuguese (pt) Ed Gein		3 978
9	Dutch (nl) Ed Gein		3 074
10	Polish (pl) Ed Gein		2 883

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ed Gein		1 571
2	German (de) Ed Gein		194
3	French (fr) Ed Gein		158
4	Italian (it) Ed Gein		156
5	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		131
6	Russian (ru) Гин, Эд		116
7	Dutch (nl) Ed Gein		83
8	Japanese (ja) エド・ゲイン		79
9	Finnish (fi) Ed Gein		74
10	Polish (pl) Ed Gein		68

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) Ed Gein		12
2	Spanish (es) Ed Gein		3
3	Persian (fa) اد گین		2
4	Italian (it) Ed Gein		2
5	Simple English (simple) Ed Gein		2
6	Arabic (ar) إد جين		1
7	French (fr) Ed Gein		1
8	Polish (pl) Ed Gein		1
9	Turkish (tr) Ed Gein		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Ed Qin		0

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