Joe Paterno

Quality:

Joe Paterno - American college football coach (1926-2012). This person is the 7658^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Joe Paterno” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7658^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Joe Paterno”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 996 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Joe Paterno is on the 7658^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1266 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #211 in January 2012
• Global: #793 in January 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3147 in September 2023
• Global: #133 in November 2011

There are 13 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) Joe Paterno		88.4067
2	French (fr) Joe Paterno		81.9838
3	Portuguese (pt) Joe Paterno		70.9799
4	Chinese (zh) 喬·帕特諾		34.4922
5	German (de) Joe Paterno		30.5818
6	Norwegian (no) Joe Paterno		24.9651
7	Japanese (ja) ジョー・パターノ		24.0812
8	Spanish (es) Joe Paterno		23.1515
9	Simple English (simple) Joe Paterno		18.9899
10	Finnish (fi) Joe Paterno		16.8273

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Joe Paterno		12 051 849
2	Spanish (es) Joe Paterno		239 657
3	French (fr) Joe Paterno		122 579
4	German (de) Joe Paterno		70 241
5	Portuguese (pt) Joe Paterno		41 872
6	Japanese (ja) ジョー・パターノ		26 733
7	Simple English (simple) Joe Paterno		9 622
8	Finnish (fi) Joe Paterno		9 018
9	Chinese (zh) 喬·帕特諾		7 707
10	Norwegian (no) Joe Paterno		4 330

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) Joe Paterno		21 522
2	Spanish (es) Joe Paterno		387
3	French (fr) Joe Paterno		378
4	Simple English (simple) Joe Paterno		174
5	Portuguese (pt) Joe Paterno		74
6	Chinese (zh) 喬·帕特諾		73
7	Japanese (ja) ジョー・パターノ		61
8	German (de) Joe Paterno		60
9	Finnish (fi) Joe Paterno		16
10	Korean (ko) 조 패터노		16

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Joe Paterno		799
2	French (fr) Joe Paterno		47
3	German (de) Joe Paterno		39
4	Spanish (es) Joe Paterno		28
5	Japanese (ja) ジョー・パターノ		16
6	Simple English (simple) Joe Paterno		15
7	Latin (la) Iosephus Paterno		14
8	Portuguese (pt) Joe Paterno		12
9	Norwegian (no) Joe Paterno		11
10	Finnish (fi) Joe Paterno		7

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	Chinese (zh) 喬·帕特諾		1
2	German (de) Joe Paterno		0
3	English (en) Joe Paterno		0
4	Spanish (es) Joe Paterno		0
5	Persian (fa) جو پترنو		0
6	Finnish (fi) Joe Paterno		0
7	French (fr) Joe Paterno		0
8	Japanese (ja) ジョー・パターノ		0
9	Korean (ko) 조 패터노		0
10	Latin (la) Iosephus Paterno		0

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

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