Edward the Elder

Quality:

Edward the Elder - king of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924). This person is the 5795^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 557^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Edward the Elder” in Simple English Wikipedia has 58.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 42 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 4477^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 557^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5795^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Edward the Elder”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1421 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Edward the Elder is on the 557^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 5795^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4557 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #491 in November 2015
• Global: #1176 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #159 in May 2020
• Global: #335 in March 2022

There are 47 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) Edward the Elder		85.9536
2	Greek (el) Εδουάρδος ο Πρεσβύτερος		81.319
3	Simple English (simple) Edward the Elder		58.6233
4	French (fr) Édouard l'Ancien		56.2596
5	Slovenian (sl) Edvard Starejši		51.5621
6	German (de) Eduard der Ältere		49.3151
7	Japanese (ja) エドワード長兄王		49.2592
8	Norwegian (no) Edvard den eldre		43.331
9	Hungarian (hu) I. Eduárd wessexi király		42.6325
10	Catalan (ca) Eduard el Vell		38.534

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edward the Elder		10 412 067
2	Spanish (es) Eduardo el Viejo		1 200 973
3	French (fr) Édouard l'Ancien		853 030
4	Russian (ru) Эдуард Старший		653 375
5	German (de) Eduard der Ältere		563 277
6	Portuguese (pt) Eduardo, o Velho		531 652
7	Polish (pl) Edward Starszy		391 305
8	Italian (it) Edoardo il Vecchio		332 925
9	Dutch (nl) Eduard de Oudere		198 923
10	Persian (fa) ادوارد مهتر		157 479

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 the Elder		37 561
2	Spanish (es) Eduardo el Viejo		3 247
3	Russian (ru) Эдуард Старший		2 549
4	French (fr) Édouard l'Ancien		2 455
5	German (de) Eduard der Ältere		1 556
6	Portuguese (pt) Eduardo, o Velho		1 197
7	Italian (it) Edoardo il Vecchio		1 158
8	Polish (pl) Edward Starszy		1 036
9	Persian (fa) ادوارد مهتر		1 014
10	Japanese (ja) エドワード長兄王		774

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Edward the Elder		332
2	German (de) Eduard der Ältere		102
3	French (fr) Édouard l'Ancien		102
4	Italian (it) Edoardo il Vecchio		84
5	Dutch (nl) Eduard de Oudere		73
6	Russian (ru) Эдуард Старший		68
7	Hebrew (he) אדוארד הזקן		51
8	Spanish (es) Eduardo el Viejo		48
9	Hungarian (hu) I. Eduárd wessexi király		47
10	Japanese (ja) エドワード長兄王		41

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	Belarusian (be) Эдуард Старэйшы		1
2	Catalan (ca) Eduard el Vell		1
3	English (en) Edward the Elder		1
4	Croatian (hr) Eduard I. Stariji		1
5	Hungarian (hu) I. Eduárd wessexi király		1
6	Georgian (ka) ედუარდ უფროსი		1
7	Korean (ko) 에드워드 장형왕		1
8	Lithuanian (lt) Eduardas I Vyresnysis		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Eduardo, o Velho		1
10	Chinese (zh) 長者愛德華		1

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

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