Erik the Red

Quality:

Erik the Red - explorer and founder of the first viking settlement in Greenland. This person is the 7815^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Erik the Red” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7815^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Erik the Red”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2209 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Erik the Red is on the 7815^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 10 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3595 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #556 in February 2013
• Global: #1796 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9704 in January 2016
• Global: #1707 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, 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) Erik the Red		69.6732
2	Turkish (tr) Kızıl Erik		46.5779
3	German (de) Erik der Rote		43.2466
4	Greek (el) Έρικ ο Ερυθρός		32.0405
5	Malay (ms) Eiríkr yang Merah		30.8893
6	Romanian (ro) Erik cel Roșu		29.9268
7	French (fr) Erik le Rouge		26.1629
8	Norwegian (no) Eirik Raude		25.5056
9	Lithuanian (lt) Eirikas Rudasis		24.8318
10	Georgian (ka) ერიკ წითური		24.2614

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Erik the Red		5 677 212
2	Spanish (es) Erik el Rojo		1 549 987
3	German (de) Erik der Rote		790 243
4	French (fr) Erik le Rouge		762 252
5	Russian (ru) Эрик Рыжий		613 332
6	Japanese (ja) 赤毛のエイリーク		391 497
7	Italian (it) Erik il Rosso		384 137
8	Portuguese (pt) Eiríkr		262 893
9	Danish (da) Erik den Røde		237 188
10	Polish (pl) Eryk Rudy		179 341

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) Erik the Red		24 943
2	French (fr) Erik le Rouge		4 434
3	Spanish (es) Erik el Rojo		4 079
4	German (de) Erik der Rote		2 889
5	Russian (ru) Эрик Рыжий		2 327
6	Japanese (ja) 赤毛のエイリーク		1 638
7	Italian (it) Erik il Rosso		1 404
8	Portuguese (pt) Eiríkr		724
9	Simple English (simple) Erik the Red		632
10	Norwegian (no) Eirik Raude		584

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Erik the Red		742
2	German (de) Erik der Rote		156
3	French (fr) Erik le Rouge		149
4	Spanish (es) Erik el Rojo		97
5	Italian (it) Erik il Rosso		94
6	Dutch (nl) Erik de Rode		83
7	Norwegian (no) Eirik Raude		81
8	Russian (ru) Эрик Рыжий		80
9	Danish (da) Erik den Røde		73
10	Hebrew (he) אייריק האדום		59

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) Erik the Red		5
2	Danish (da) Erik den Røde		3
3	Arabic (ar) إريك الأحمر		2
4	French (fr) Erik le Rouge		1
5	Italian (it) Erik il Rosso		1
6	Dutch (nl) Erik de Rode		1
7	Polish (pl) Eryk Rudy		1
8	Turkish (tr) Kızıl Erik		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Kürən Erik		0
10	Belarusian (be) Эйрык Рыжы		0

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

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