Edward Teach

Quality:

Blackbeard - English pirate. This person is the 1349^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 479^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Edward Teach” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 4 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 3901^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5105^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 479^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4347^th most popular in all topics.

The 6591^st most popular in AI.

The 1349^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4272^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6348^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Edward Teach”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5105^th place) and edited by 3150 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6591^st place).

Blackbeard is on the 479^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1349^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 29 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3496 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #82 in January 2014
• Global: #1408 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #418 in February 2017
• Global: #333 in May 2011

There are 46 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, 2026 (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) Blackbeard		98.4951
2	Portuguese (pt) Barba-Negra		95.3249
3	Hungarian (hu) Feketeszakáll		93.3333
4	Persian (fa) ریش‌سیاه		93.1095
5	Russian (ru) Чёрная Борода		89.4746
6	Galician (gl) Barbanegra		77.2682
7	French (fr) Barbe Noire		75.3281
8	Chinese (zh) 黑胡子		71.3759
9	Japanese (ja) 黒髭		63.862
10	Serbian (sr) Едвард Тич		61.9799

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blackbeard		24 893 428
2	Spanish (es) Barbanegra		3 086 356
3	Russian (ru) Чёрная Борода		2 899 026
4	German (de) Blackbeard		2 785 205
5	Japanese (ja) 黒髭		2 708 949
6	French (fr) Barbe Noire		2 468 738
7	Italian (it) Barbanera		1 471 648
8	Portuguese (pt) Barba-Negra		1 301 215
9	Polish (pl) Czarnobrody		753 035
10	Chinese (zh) 黑胡子		619 195

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) Blackbeard		78 431
2	Russian (ru) Чёрная Борода		8 507
3	German (de) Blackbeard		7 835
4	French (fr) Barbe Noire		6 342
5	Spanish (es) Barbanegra		5 651
6	Japanese (ja) 黒髭		4 816
7	Italian (it) Barbanera		4 685
8	Polish (pl) Czarnobrody		3 765
9	Portuguese (pt) Barba-Negra		2 381
10	Dutch (nl) Zwartbaard		1 954

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Blackbeard		1 130
2	German (de) Blackbeard		253
3	French (fr) Barbe Noire		243
4	Italian (it) Barbanera		150
5	Russian (ru) Чёрная Борода		140
6	Spanish (es) Barbanegra		130
7	Dutch (nl) Zwartbaard		114
8	Portuguese (pt) Barba-Negra		97
9	Hebrew (he) שחור הזקן		66
10	Chinese (zh) 黑胡子		58

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	Russian (ru) Чёрная Борода		4
2	Catalan (ca) Barbanegra		2
3	Persian (fa) ریش‌سیاه		2
4	Hebrew (he) שחור הזקן		2
5	Turkish (tr) Kara Sakal		2
6	Arabic (ar) اللحية السوداء		1
7	English (en) Blackbeard		1
8	Spanish (es) Barbanegra		1
9	Galician (gl) Barbanegra		1
10	Italian (it) Barbanera		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information