Hugh Downs

Quality:

Hugh Downs - American broadcaster (1921–2020). Article “Hugh Downs” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 2 sections.

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 “Hugh Downs”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 332 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 25 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 292 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #128 in July 2020
• Global: #1329 in July 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4522 in July 2020
• Global: #2617 in July 2020

There are 8 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) Hugh Downs		69.6135
2	Chinese (zh) 休·唐斯		53.0443
3	Simple English (simple) Hugh Downs		29.6751
4	Spanish (es) Hugh Downs		28.0209
5	Arabic (ar) هيو دونز		23.3223
6	Portuguese (pt) Hugh Downs		21.0175
7	Finnish (fi) Hugh Downs		13.5154
8	French (fr) Hugh Downs		9.9286

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hugh Downs		2 070 181
2	French (fr) Hugh Downs		10 987
3	Simple English (simple) Hugh Downs		7 632
4	Portuguese (pt) Hugh Downs		6 388
5	Finnish (fi) Hugh Downs		3 720
6	Spanish (es) Hugh Downs		3 535
7	Chinese (zh) 休·唐斯		2 353
8	Arabic (ar) هيو دونز		960

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) Hugh Downs		3 484
2	Chinese (zh) 休·唐斯		37
3	Spanish (es) Hugh Downs		22
4	Simple English (simple) Hugh Downs		17
5	French (fr) Hugh Downs		11
6	Portuguese (pt) Hugh Downs		8
7	Finnish (fi) Hugh Downs		5
8	Arabic (ar) هيو دونز		0

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hugh Downs		267
2	French (fr) Hugh Downs		23
3	Portuguese (pt) Hugh Downs		15
4	Simple English (simple) Hugh Downs		11
5	Finnish (fi) Hugh Downs		7
6	Spanish (es) Hugh Downs		5
7	Chinese (zh) 休·唐斯		3
8	Arabic (ar) هيو دونز		1

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	Arabic (ar) هيو دونز		1
2	English (en) Hugh Downs		0
3	Spanish (es) Hugh Downs		0
4	Finnish (fi) Hugh Downs		0
5	French (fr) Hugh Downs		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Hugh Downs		0
7	Simple English (simple) Hugh Downs		0
8	Chinese (zh) 休·唐斯		0

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