James Earl Ray

Quality:

21

James Earl Ray - American criminal, convicted for the murder of civil rights activist and Nobel peace prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. This person is the 3323^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article "James Earl Ray" in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3323^rd most popular in people.

Since the creation of article "James Earl Ray", its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1481 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

James Earl Ray is on the 3323^rd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 16 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 646 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #264 in June 2024
• Global: #2198 in January 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4400 in January 2022
• Global: #534 in April 2018

There are 31 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 August 1, 2024 (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) James Earl Ray		69.2457
2	Serbian (sr) Џејмс Ерл Реј		42.851
3	German (de) James Earl Ray		40.2953
4	Danish (da) James Earl Ray		33.52
5	Arabic (ar) جيمس إرل راي		30.4302
6	Portuguese (pt) James Earl Ray		27.702
7	Ukrainian (uk) Джеймс Ерл Рей		27.4766
8	Slovenian (sl) James Earl Ray		25.8022
9	Armenian (hy) Ջեյմս Էրլ Ռեյ		25.794
10	Esperanto (eo) James Earl Ray		24.963

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) James Earl Ray		16 668 387
2	German (de) James Earl Ray		1 120 674
3	French (fr) James Earl Ray		911 700
4	Russian (ru) Рэй, Джеймс Эрл		640 491
5	Spanish (es) James Earl Ray		620 488
6	Portuguese (pt) James Earl Ray		460 015
7	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・アール・レイ		331 557
8	Polish (pl) James Earl Ray		272 981
9	Dutch (nl) James Earl Ray		247 736
10	Italian (it) James Earl Ray		219 615

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) James Earl Ray		98 138
2	German (de) James Earl Ray		3 781
3	Spanish (es) James Earl Ray		2 936
4	Russian (ru) Рэй, Джеймс Эрл		2 774
5	French (fr) James Earl Ray		2 436
6	Portuguese (pt) James Earl Ray		2 019
7	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・アール・レイ		1 985
8	Polish (pl) James Earl Ray		1 290
9	Italian (it) James Earl Ray		1 214
10	Dutch (nl) James Earl Ray		903

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) James Earl Ray		681
2	German (de) James Earl Ray		113
3	French (fr) James Earl Ray		100
4	Dutch (nl) James Earl Ray		59
5	Russian (ru) Рэй, Джеймс Эрл		51
6	Hebrew (he) ג'יימס ארל ריי		43
7	Danish (da) James Earl Ray		42
8	Italian (it) James Earl Ray		38
9	Spanish (es) James Earl Ray		36
10	Swedish (sv) James Earl Ray		34

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) James Earl Ray		8
2	Esperanto (eo) James Earl Ray		1
3	Hebrew (he) ג'יימס ארל ריי		1
4	Korean (ko) 제임스 얼 레이		1
5	Russian (ru) Рэй, Джеймс Эрл		1
6	Arabic (ar) جيمس إرل راي		0
7	Catalan (ca) James Earl Ray		0
8	Czech (cs) James Earl Ray		0
9	Danish (da) James Earl Ray		0
10	German (de) James Earl Ray		0

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

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