Jimmy Wales

Quality:

Jimmy Wales - American co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966). This person is the 3514^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 396^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Jimmy Wales” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 3 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 3450^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 25^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 396^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 367^th most popular in AI.

The 3514^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 985^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 245^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3952^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Jimmy Wales” was edited by 5 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (245^th place) and written by 33 authors in all languages (3952^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Jimmy Wales”, its content was written by 296 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (25^th place) and edited by 8873 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (367^th place).

Jimmy Wales is on the 396^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 3514^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 54 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5056 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1 in November 2009
• Global: #9 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #110 in April 2025
• Global: #138 in November 2010

There are 55 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) Jimmy Wales		95.4907
2	Turkish (tr) Jimmy Wales		95.3846
3	Chinese (zh) 吉米·威爾斯		92.9
4	Hungarian (hu) Jimmy Wales		77.608
5	Serbian (sr) Џими Вејлс		66.5732
6	Indonesian (id) Jimmy Wales		66.0849
7	German (de) Jimmy Wales		65.821
8	Russian (ru) Уэйлс, Джимми		53.827
9	Malay (ms) Jimmy Wales		53.2468
10	Spanish (es) Jimmy Wales		53.113

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Jimmy Wales		12 295 852
2	Spanish (es) Jimmy Wales		1 485 751
3	Russian (ru) Уэйлс, Джимми		1 195 327
4	German (de) Jimmy Wales		1 160 456
5	French (fr) Jimmy Wales		1 027 611
6	Italian (it) Jimmy Wales		624 392
7	Japanese (ja) ジミー・ウェールズ		603 642
8	Portuguese (pt) Jimmy Wales		459 359
9	Arabic (ar) جيمي ويلز		429 780
10	Polish (pl) Jimmy Wales		381 543

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) Jimmy Wales		43 013
2	Russian (ru) Уэйлс, Джимми		4 797
3	Japanese (ja) ジミー・ウェールズ		4 637
4	Simple English (simple) Jimmy Wales		2 997
5	Spanish (es) Jimmy Wales		2 209
6	French (fr) Jimmy Wales		1 604
7	Chinese (zh) 吉米·威爾斯		1 341
8	German (de) Jimmy Wales		1 147
9	Portuguese (pt) Jimmy Wales		920
10	Italian (it) Jimmy Wales		913

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Jimmy Wales		3 029
2	French (fr) Jimmy Wales		534
3	German (de) Jimmy Wales		513
4	Spanish (es) Jimmy Wales		385
5	Russian (ru) Уэйлс, Джимми		316
6	Simple English (simple) Jimmy Wales		296
7	Italian (it) Jimmy Wales		290
8	Chinese (zh) 吉米·威爾斯		214
9	Japanese (ja) ジミー・ウェールズ		207
10	Portuguese (pt) Jimmy Wales		204

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) Jimmy Wales		6
2	Simple English (simple) Jimmy Wales		5
3	Polish (pl) Jimmy Wales		4
4	Spanish (es) Jimmy Wales		3
5	Persian (fa) جیمی ویلز		2
6	Japanese (ja) ジミー・ウェールズ		2
7	Portuguese (pt) Jimmy Wales		2
8	Turkish (tr) Jimmy Wales		2
9	Vietnamese (vi) Jimmy Wales		2
10	Hebrew (he) ג'ימי ויילס		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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information