Layne Staley

Quality:

Layne Staley - American rock musician (1967–2002). This person is the 2697^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 709^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Layne Staley” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian 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 5443^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 709^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9387^th most popular in all topics.

The 2697^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6020^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Layne Staley”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1596 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Layne Staley is on the 709^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 2697^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 37 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1492 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #389 in November 2022
• Global: #4641 in October 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #169 in August 2022
• Global: #1888 in May 2017

There are 33 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	Russian (ru) Стейли, Лейн		100
2	Polish (pl) Layne Staley		100
3	English (en) Layne Staley		92.8208
4	Ukrainian (uk) Лейн Стейлі		90
5	Portuguese (pt) Layne Staley		87.8409
6	Turkish (tr) Layne Staley		85.5829
7	German (de) Layne Staley		52.4546
8	Indonesian (id) Layne Staley		49.7991
9	Finnish (fi) Layne Staley		41.0904
10	Japanese (ja) レイン・ステイリー		40.9462

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Layne Staley		20 884 091
2	Spanish (es) Layne Staley		2 028 883
3	Portuguese (pt) Layne Staley		1 275 223
4	Italian (it) Layne Staley		1 008 824
5	Polish (pl) Layne Staley		820 100
6	German (de) Layne Staley		789 037
7	Russian (ru) Стейли, Лейн		764 756
8	French (fr) Layne Staley		494 277
9	Dutch (nl) Layne Staley		219 846
10	Japanese (ja) レイン・ステイリー		191 396

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) Layne Staley		98 182
2	Portuguese (pt) Layne Staley		7 472
3	Spanish (es) Layne Staley		6 810
4	Russian (ru) Стейли, Лейн		6 094
5	German (de) Layne Staley		4 818
6	Italian (it) Layne Staley		4 218
7	Polish (pl) Layne Staley		2 758
8	French (fr) Layne Staley		2 718
9	Dutch (nl) Layne Staley		1 389
10	Japanese (ja) レイン・ステイリー		867

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Layne Staley		627
2	German (de) Layne Staley		97
3	Italian (it) Layne Staley		95
4	French (fr) Layne Staley		80
5	Russian (ru) Стейли, Лейн		78
6	Spanish (es) Layne Staley		75
7	Polish (pl) Layne Staley		68
8	Portuguese (pt) Layne Staley		62
9	Hebrew (he) ליין סטאלי		55
10	Dutch (nl) Layne Staley		43

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	German (de) Layne Staley		1
2	Greek (el) Λέιν Στέιλι		1
3	English (en) Layne Staley		1
4	Spanish (es) Layne Staley		1
5	Romanian (ro) Layne Staley		1
6	Russian (ru) Стейли, Лейн		1
7	Bulgarian (bg) Лейн Стейли		0
8	Czech (cs) Layne Staley		0
9	Estonian (et) Layne Staley		0
10	Basque (eu) Layne Staley		0

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 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