Jimmy Wales

Quality:

Jimmy Wales - co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966). This person is the 3592^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 501^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Jimmy Wales” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Korean Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4035^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 24^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 501^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 363^rd most popular in AI.

The 3592^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3327^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3796^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Jimmy Wales”, its content was written by 313 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (24^th place) and edited by 9011 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (363^rd place).

Jimmy Wales is on the 501^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 3592^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 35 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5206 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): #181 in January 2025
• Global: #143 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, 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	Korean (ko) 지미 웨일스		97.541
2	Turkish (tr) Jimmy Wales		96.9231
3	English (en) Jimmy Wales		96.1338
4	Chinese (zh) 吉米·威爾斯		92.9253
5	Hungarian (hu) Jimmy Wales		77.7224
6	Serbian (sr) Џими Вејлс		66.0787
7	German (de) Jimmy Wales		63.9802
8	Indonesian (id) Jimmy Wales		63.6078
9	Russian (ru) Уэйлс, Джимми		56.0252
10	Malay (ms) Jimmy Wales		55.0815

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Jimmy Wales		13 047 262
2	Spanish (es) Jimmy Wales		1 511 074
3	Russian (ru) Уэйлс, Джимми		1 286 072
4	German (de) Jimmy Wales		1 270 975
5	French (fr) Jimmy Wales		1 061 069
6	Italian (it) Jimmy Wales		642 610
7	Japanese (ja) ジミー・ウェールズ		622 687
8	Portuguese (pt) Jimmy Wales		469 397
9	Arabic (ar) جيمي ويلز		441 236
10	Polish (pl) Jimmy Wales		389 155

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		39 218
2	Russian (ru) Уэйлс, Джимми		3 319
3	Japanese (ja) ジミー・ウェールズ		2 800
4	German (de) Jimmy Wales		1 884
5	French (fr) Jimmy Wales		1 540
6	Spanish (es) Jimmy Wales		1 532
7	Chinese (zh) 吉米·威爾斯		1 239
8	Italian (it) Jimmy Wales		870
9	Persian (fa) جیمی ویلز		798
10	Portuguese (pt) Jimmy Wales		761

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		3 125
2	French (fr) Jimmy Wales		543
3	German (de) Jimmy Wales		531
4	Spanish (es) Jimmy Wales		399
5	Russian (ru) Уэйлс, Джимми		322
6	Simple English (simple) Jimmy Wales		313
7	Italian (it) Jimmy Wales		293
8	Chinese (zh) 吉米·威爾斯		221
9	Japanese (ja) ジミー・ウェールズ		215
10	Portuguese (pt) Jimmy Wales		208

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		9
2	French (fr) Jimmy Wales		4
3	Hungarian (hu) Jimmy Wales		4
4	German (de) Jimmy Wales		2
5	Spanish (es) Jimmy Wales		2
6	Persian (fa) جیمی ویلز		2
7	Indonesian (id) Jimmy Wales		2
8	Japanese (ja) ジミー・ウェールズ		2
9	Arabic (ar) جيمي ويلز		1
10	Korean (ko) 지미 웨일스		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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