Matthew Shepard

Quality:

Matthew Shepard - American LGBT student and murder victim. This person is the 4904^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Matthew Shepard” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4904^th most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “Matthew Shepard”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1912 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Matthew Shepard is on the 4904^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 719 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1901 in June 2021
• Global: #1073 in October 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #17249 in December 2011
• Global: #468 in October 2018

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	English (en) Matthew Shepard		81.5752
2	Swedish (sv) Matthew Shepard		74.2968
3	Portuguese (pt) Matthew Shepard		62.1387
4	Catalan (ca) Matthew Shepard		60.4219
5	Dutch (nl) Matthew Shepard		56.8828
6	Chinese (zh) 马修·谢巴德		56.8374
7	Ukrainian (uk) Метью Шепард		55.071
8	German (de) Matthew Shepard		50.7971
9	Russian (ru) Шепард, Мэттью		49.339
10	Spanish (es) Matthew Shepard		48.6941

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Matthew Shepard		16 583 692
2	Spanish (es) Matthew Shepard		453 596
3	Russian (ru) Шепард, Мэттью		366 835
4	German (de) Matthew Shepard		366 814
5	French (fr) Matthew Shepard		233 105
6	Italian (it) Matthew Shepard		229 712
7	Japanese (ja) マシュー・シェパード		189 869
8	Dutch (nl) Matthew Shepard		108 231
9	Portuguese (pt) Matthew Shepard		92 827
10	Polish (pl) Matthew Shepard		88 978

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) Matthew Shepard		79 808
2	Spanish (es) Matthew Shepard		1 651
3	German (de) Matthew Shepard		1 312
4	Italian (it) Matthew Shepard		984
5	Russian (ru) Шепард, Мэттью		765
6	French (fr) Matthew Shepard		685
7	Dutch (nl) Matthew Shepard		356
8	Japanese (ja) マシュー・シェパード		299
9	Chinese (zh) 马修·谢巴德		245
10	Portuguese (pt) Matthew Shepard		238

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Matthew Shepard		872
2	German (de) Matthew Shepard		118
3	French (fr) Matthew Shepard		108
4	Italian (it) Matthew Shepard		104
5	Russian (ru) Шепард, Мэттью		102
6	Hebrew (he) מת'יו שפרד		68
7	Spanish (es) Matthew Shepard		57
8	Dutch (nl) Matthew Shepard		55
9	Polish (pl) Matthew Shepard		46
10	Chinese (zh) 马修·谢巴德		46

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) Matthew Shepard		10
2	Arabic (ar) ماثيو شيبرد		1
3	Spanish (es) Matthew Shepard		1
4	French (fr) Matthew Shepard		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Matthew Shepard		1
6	Dutch (nl) Matthew Shepard		1
7	Turkish (tr) Matthew Shepard		1
8	Belarusian (be) Мэцью Шэпард		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Матю Шепард		0
10	Catalan (ca) Matthew Shepard		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