Ian Watkins (Lostprophets)

Quality:

Ian Watkins - Welsh musician and sex offender (1977–2025). This person is the 5072^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ian Watkins (Lostprophets)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 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 5072^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4850^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Ian Watkins (Lostprophets)”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1176 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Ian Watkins is on the 5072^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 414 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1141 in October 2025
• Global: #49 in October 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3113 in December 2013
• Global: #11 in October 2025

There are 20 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) Ian Watkins		77.1333
2	Hebrew (he) איאן ווטקינס		68.9972
3	Russian (ru) Уоткинс, Иан		64.9714
4	Spanish (es) Ian Watkins		45.6252
5	Volapük (vo) Ian Watkins (kanitan)		44.802
6	Ukrainian (uk) Іан Воткінс		31.3118
7	Italian (it) Ian Watkins		31.1828
8	Dutch (nl) Ian Watkins		30.4052
9	Slovak (sk) Ian Watkins		28.9509
10	Norwegian (no) Ian Watkins		27.8209

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ian Watkins		16 384 306
2	Spanish (es) Ian Watkins		589 557
3	Russian (ru) Уоткинс, Иан		515 140
4	French (fr) Ian Watkins (musicien)		268 250
5	Italian (it) Ian Watkins		144 513
6	Polish (pl) Ian Watkins (Lostprophets)		134 118
7	Japanese (ja) イアン・ワトキンス		124 339
8	Dutch (nl) Ian Watkins		117 461
9	Finnish (fi) Ian Watkins		100 467
10	Portuguese (pt) Ian Watkins		96 488

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) Ian Watkins		131 350
2	Italian (it) Ian Watkins		9 250
3	Spanish (es) Ian Watkins		7 488
4	Russian (ru) Уоткинс, Иан		5 937
5	French (fr) Ian Watkins (musicien)		1 948
6	Portuguese (pt) Ian Watkins		918
7	Japanese (ja) イアン・ワトキンス		887
8	Polish (pl) Ian Watkins (Lostprophets)		878
9	Dutch (nl) Ian Watkins		686
10	Finnish (fi) Ian Watkins		360

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ian Watkins		746
2	Russian (ru) Уоткинс, Иан		78
3	Spanish (es) Ian Watkins		74
4	French (fr) Ian Watkins (musicien)		57
5	Polish (pl) Ian Watkins (Lostprophets)		42
6	Dutch (nl) Ian Watkins		38
7	Italian (it) Ian Watkins		34
8	Portuguese (pt) Ian Watkins		20
9	Finnish (fi) Ian Watkins		17
10	Norwegian (no) Ian Watkins		17

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) Ian Watkins		2
2	Czech (cs) Ian Watkins		0
3	Spanish (es) Ian Watkins		0
4	Finnish (fi) Ian Watkins		0
5	French (fr) Ian Watkins (musicien)		0
6	Hebrew (he) איאן ווטקינס		0
7	Hungarian (hu) Ian Watkins		0
8	Italian (it) Ian Watkins		0
9	Japanese (ja) イアン・ワトキンス		0
10	Korean (ko) 이언 왓킨스		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