Edward VIII

Quality:

Edward VIII - King of the United Kingdom in 1936. This person is the 151^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 74^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Edward VIII” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 708^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3834^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 74^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 392^nd most popular in all topics.

The 2859^th most popular in AI.

The 151^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 2088^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 3049^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 976^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3025^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Edward VIII” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3049^th place) and written by 37 authors in all languages (3025^th place).

Since the creation of article “Edward VIII”, its content was written by 42 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3834^th place) and edited by 4579 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2859^th place).

Edward VIII is on the 74^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 151^st place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 126 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13422 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #131 in September 2023
• Global: #129 in September 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #36 in December 2020
• Global: #12 in September 2022

There are 53 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	Portuguese (pt) Eduardo VIII do Reino Unido		98.7715
2	Indonesian (id) Edward VIII dari Britania Raya		98.6858
3	English (en) Edward VIII		97.1528
4	Vietnamese (vi) Edward VIII		96.2441
5	Slovak (sk) Eduard VIII. (Spojené kráľovstvo)		94.7826
6	Hebrew (he) אדוארד השמיני, מלך הממלכה המאוחדת		94
7	Hungarian (hu) VIII. Eduárd brit király		91.0977
8	Polish (pl) Edward VIII Windsor		90.9468
9	French (fr) Édouard VIII		89.093
10	Spanish (es) Eduardo VIII del Reino Unido		88.2116

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edward VIII		85 244 961
2	Spanish (es) Eduardo VIII del Reino Unido		9 865 972
3	French (fr) Édouard VIII		7 333 413
4	Russian (ru) Эдуард VIII		6 005 002
5	German (de) Eduard VIII.		5 423 997
6	Italian (it) Edoardo VIII del Regno Unito		5 168 471
7	Polish (pl) Edward VIII Windsor		3 694 890
8	Portuguese (pt) Eduardo VIII do Reino Unido		3 306 793
9	Japanese (ja) エドワード8世 (イギリス王)		3 236 778
10	Chinese (zh) 爱德华八世		2 236 475

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) Edward VIII		260 989
2	Russian (ru) Эдуард VIII		24 400
3	Spanish (es) Eduardo VIII del Reino Unido		22 115
4	German (de) Eduard VIII.		17 762
5	French (fr) Édouard VIII		17 557
6	Italian (it) Edoardo VIII del Regno Unito		12 318
7	Japanese (ja) エドワード8世 (イギリス王)		11 029
8	Polish (pl) Edward VIII Windsor		9 180
9	Portuguese (pt) Eduardo VIII do Reino Unido		7 251
10	Chinese (zh) 爱德华八世		6 621

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Edward VIII		1 326
2	French (fr) Édouard VIII		320
3	German (de) Eduard VIII.		317
4	Italian (it) Edoardo VIII del Regno Unito		228
5	Russian (ru) Эдуард VIII		179
6	Spanish (es) Eduardo VIII del Reino Unido		165
7	Chinese (zh) 爱德华八世		151
8	Polish (pl) Edward VIII Windsor		139
9	Hebrew (he) אדוארד השמיני, מלך הממלכה המאוחדת		127
10	Dutch (nl) Edward VIII van het Verenigd Koninkrijk		125

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) Edward VIII		13
2	German (de) Eduard VIII.		3
3	Polish (pl) Edward VIII Windsor		3
4	Hungarian (hu) VIII. Eduárd brit király		2
5	Italian (it) Edoardo VIII del Regno Unito		2
6	Japanese (ja) エドワード8世 (イギリス王)		2
7	Norwegian (no) Edvard VIII av Storbritannia		2
8	Portuguese (pt) Eduardo VIII do Reino Unido		2
9	Arabic (ar) إدوارد الثامن ملك المملكة المتحدة		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) VIII Eduard		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 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