John Smith (explorer)

Quality:

John Smith - English soldier, explorer, writer (1580–1631). This person is the 8308^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “John Smith (explorer)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 80 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 33 references and 12 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 5978^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8308^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6514^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “John Smith (explorer)” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6514^th place) and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “John Smith (explorer)”, its content was written by 32 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5978^th place) and edited by 1687 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

John Smith is on the 8308^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 39 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2436 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #108 in December 2014
• Global: #5971 in December 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3850 in November 2016
• Global: #13360 in September 2009

There are 37 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) John Smith (explorer)		84.1687
2	Simple English (simple) John Smith (explorer)		79.9526
3	Latin (la) Ioannes Smith (explorator)		48.9661
4	Hungarian (hu) John Smith (felfedező)		43.1417
5	Italian (it) John Smith (esploratore)		33.9648
6	Arabic (ar) جون سميث (مستكشف)		29.8412
7	Turkish (tr) John Smith (kâşif)		28.4563
8	Serbian (sr) Džon Smit (istraživač)		28.0561
9	Armenian (hy) Ջոն Սմիթ (ծովագնաց)		27.1807
10	Catalan (ca) John Smith		27.0956

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) John Smith (explorer)		8 742 676
2	Spanish (es) John Smith (explorador)		576 041
3	Russian (ru) Смит, Джон (капитан)		436 405
4	French (fr) John Smith de Jamestown		370 815
5	German (de) John Smith (Abenteurer)		221 353
6	Japanese (ja) ジョン・スミス (探検家)		205 912
7	Portuguese (pt) John Smith		197 214
8	Italian (it) John Smith (esploratore)		187 926
9	Polish (pl) John Smith (żołnierz)		167 062
10	Dutch (nl) John Smith (ontdekkingsreiziger)		107 076

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) John Smith (explorer)		23 780
2	Spanish (es) John Smith (explorador)		1 885
3	Russian (ru) Смит, Джон (капитан)		1 723
4	German (de) John Smith (Abenteurer)		1 112
5	French (fr) John Smith de Jamestown		923
6	Italian (it) John Smith (esploratore)		849
7	Polish (pl) John Smith (żołnierz)		699
8	Japanese (ja) ジョン・スミス (探検家)		688
9	Simple English (simple) John Smith (explorer)		568
10	Portuguese (pt) John Smith		375

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) John Smith (explorer)		961
2	German (de) John Smith (Abenteurer)		68
3	Italian (it) John Smith (esploratore)		67
4	French (fr) John Smith de Jamestown		64
5	Spanish (es) John Smith (explorador)		53
6	Russian (ru) Смит, Джон (капитан)		50
7	Dutch (nl) John Smith (ontdekkingsreiziger)		43
8	Norwegian (no) John Smith av Jamestown		37
9	Danish (da) John Smith (Jamestown)		33
10	Simple English (simple) John Smith (explorer)		32

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) John Smith (explorer)		6
2	Spanish (es) John Smith (explorador)		1
3	Simple English (simple) John Smith (explorer)		1
4	Turkish (tr) John Smith (kâşif)		1
5	Arabic (ar) جون سميث (مستكشف)		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Con Smit		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Джон Смит		0
8	Catalan (ca) John Smith		0
9	Czech (cs) John Smith (cestovatel)		0
10	Danish (da) John Smith (Jamestown)		0

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

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