Francis Drake

Quality:

Francis Drake - English sailor and privateer (c. 1540 – 1596). This person is the 2409^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Francis Drake” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 5 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 2227^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8224^th most popular in all topics.

The 3136^th most popular in AI.

The 2409^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5124^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9264^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8044^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Francis Drake”, its content was written by 56 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2227^th place) and edited by 4447 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3136^th place).

Francis Drake is on the 2409^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 42 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7511 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #34 in November 2017
• Global: #586 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2532 in January 2008
• Global: #3927 in May 2016

There are 54 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) Francis Drake		97.1943
2	Russian (ru) Дрейк, Фрэнсис		85.4263
3	French (fr) Francis Drake		69.1808
4	Catalan (ca) Francis Drake		65.9875
5	German (de) Francis Drake		64.7457
6	Spanish (es) Francis Drake		57.5993
7	Romanian (ro) Francis Drake		50.6849
8	Hungarian (hu) Francis Drake		46.5313
9	Tamil (ta) பிரான்சிஸ் டிரேக்		38.3232
10	Greek (el) Φράνσις Ντρέικ		37.247

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Francis Drake		15 554 346
2	Spanish (es) Francis Drake		3 091 030
3	German (de) Francis Drake		2 639 017
4	Russian (ru) Дрейк, Фрэнсис		2 279 038
5	Japanese (ja) フランシス・ドレーク		1 939 542
6	French (fr) Francis Drake		1 254 602
7	Italian (it) Francis Drake		1 171 871
8	Polish (pl) Francis Drake		645 310
9	Portuguese (pt) Francis Drake		545 527
10	Chinese (zh) 法蘭西斯·德瑞克		403 209

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) Francis Drake		58 907
2	Japanese (ja) フランシス・ドレーク		10 717
3	German (de) Francis Drake		7 771
4	Spanish (es) Francis Drake		5 654
5	Russian (ru) Дрейк, Фрэнсис		5 227
6	French (fr) Francis Drake		3 614
7	Italian (it) Francis Drake		2 940
8	Chinese (zh) 法蘭西斯·德瑞克		1 463
9	Polish (pl) Francis Drake		1 454
10	Portuguese (pt) Francis Drake		1 032

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Francis Drake		1 402
2	German (de) Francis Drake		404
3	French (fr) Francis Drake		329
4	Spanish (es) Francis Drake		257
5	Russian (ru) Дрейк, Фрэнсис		180
6	Italian (it) Francis Drake		175
7	Dutch (nl) Francis Drake		102
8	Polish (pl) Francis Drake		100
9	Japanese (ja) フランシス・ドレーク		92
10	Hungarian (hu) Francis Drake		83

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) Francis Drake		4
2	Spanish (es) Francis Drake		4
3	Azerbaijani (az) Frensis Dreyk		3
4	French (fr) Francis Drake		3
5	Italian (it) Francis Drake		2
6	Russian (ru) Дрейк, Фрэнсис		2
7	Catalan (ca) Francis Drake		1
8	Esperanto (eo) Francis Drake		1
9	Basque (eu) Francis Drake		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Френсіс Дрейк		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