Highwayman

Highwayman - mounted robber who steals from travellers, an archaic term. Article “Highwayman” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Highwayman”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 640 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 882 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #982 in July 2017
• Global: #1137 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #14165 in April 2018
• Global: #41509 in November 2010

There are 11 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) Highwayman		60.578
2	Spanish (es) Salteador de caminos		46.2193
3	Japanese (ja) ハイウェイマン		34.0444
4	Hindi (hi) राहज़नी		25.0143
5	Swedish (sv) Stråtrövare		20.9608
6	Finnish (fi) Maantierosvo		18.208
7	Persian (fa) راهزن جاده‌ای		13.3898
8	Simple English (simple) Highwayman		12.2376
9	French (fr) Bandit de grand chemin		11.6361
10	Chinese (zh) 拦路强盗		2.1522

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Highwayman" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Highwayman		3 604 764
2	Japanese (ja) ハイウェイマン		72 805
3	French (fr) Bandit de grand chemin		66 030
4	Swedish (sv) Stråtrövare		44 661
5	Finnish (fi) Maantierosvo		14 014
6	Spanish (es) Salteador de caminos		13 928
7	Chinese (zh) 拦路强盗		12 682
8	Simple English (simple) Highwayman		10 023
9	Norwegian (no) Landeveisrøver		5 026
10	Hindi (hi) राहज़नी		4 132

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Highwayman" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Highwayman		11 107
2	Japanese (ja) ハイウェイマン		521
3	Simple English (simple) Highwayman		440
4	French (fr) Bandit de grand chemin		314
5	Spanish (es) Salteador de caminos		206
6	Swedish (sv) Stråtrövare		150
7	Chinese (zh) 拦路强盗		69
8	Finnish (fi) Maantierosvo		63
9	Norwegian (no) Landeveisrøver		16
10	Persian (fa) راهزن جاده‌ای		15

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

Language versions of the article "Highwayman" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Highwayman		523
2	French (fr) Bandit de grand chemin		22
3	Swedish (sv) Stråtrövare		21
4	Norwegian (no) Landeveisrøver		15
5	Finnish (fi) Maantierosvo		12
6	Japanese (ja) ハイウェイマン		11
7	Simple English (simple) Highwayman		11
8	Spanish (es) Salteador de caminos		10
9	Chinese (zh) 拦路强盗		7
10	Hindi (hi) राहज़नी		6

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

Language versions of the article "Highwayman" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Swedish (sv) Stråtrövare		3
2	French (fr) Bandit de grand chemin		1
3	English (en) Highwayman		0
4	Spanish (es) Salteador de caminos		0
5	Persian (fa) راهزن جاده‌ای		0
6	Finnish (fi) Maantierosvo		0
7	Hindi (hi) राहज़नी		0
8	Japanese (ja) ハイウェイマン		0
9	Norwegian (no) Landeveisrøver		0
10	Simple English (simple) Highwayman		0

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

Language versions of the article "Highwayman" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Highwayman		640
2	French (fr) Bandit de grand chemin		93
3	Swedish (sv) Stråtrövare		36
4	Japanese (ja) ハイウェイマン		34
5	Spanish (es) Salteador de caminos		22
6	Finnish (fi) Maantierosvo		15
7	Chinese (zh) 拦路强盗		13
8	Norwegian (no) Landeveisrøver		11
9	Persian (fa) راهزن جاده‌ای		9
10	Simple English (simple) Highwayman		8

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#	Language	Value
en	English Highwayman
es	Spanish Salteador de caminos
fa	Persian راهزن جاده‌ای
fi	Finnish Maantierosvo
fr	French Bandit de grand chemin
hi	Hindi राहज़नी
ja	Japanese ハイウェイマン
no	Norwegian Landeveisrøver
simple	Simple English Highwayman
sv	Swedish Stråtrövare
zh	Chinese 拦路强盗

Best Rank

Simple English: #14165 04.2018

Global: #41509 11.2010

Best Rank

Simple English: #982 07.2017

Global: #1137 01.2004

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