Orson Welles

Quality:

Orson Welles - American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985). This person is the 1210^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Orson Welles” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in Italian 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 9633^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3856^th most popular in all topics.

The 3226^th most popular in AI.

The 1210^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4107^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9340^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Orson Welles”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9633^rd place) and edited by 4405 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3226^th place).

Orson Welles is on the 1210^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 122 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 21020 times in all languages (8194^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #141 in October 2006
• Global: #134 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3624 in July 2008
• Global: #1019 in December 2020

There are 52 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	Italian (it) Orson Welles		99.7563
2	English (en) Orson Welles		97.8222
3	Indonesian (id) Orson Welles		97.6878
4	Chinese (zh) 奧森·威爾斯		96.1054
5	French (fr) Orson Welles		77.8251
6	German (de) Orson Welles		64.6605
7	Hebrew (he) אורסון ולס		56.2561
8	Croatian (hr) Orson Welles		55.6924
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Orson Welles		54.1866
10	Hungarian (hu) Orson Welles		45.0607

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Orson Welles		29 987 518
2	Spanish (es) Orson Welles		3 713 650
3	French (fr) Orson Welles		2 905 547
4	German (de) Orson Welles		2 737 193
5	Italian (it) Orson Welles		2 514 567
6	Russian (ru) Уэллс, Орсон		1 443 715
7	Japanese (ja) オーソン・ウェルズ		1 088 298
8	Portuguese (pt) Orson Welles		884 518
9	Polish (pl) Orson Welles		596 804
10	Persian (fa) اورسن ولز		414 973

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) Orson Welles		118 564
2	Italian (it) Orson Welles		11 060
3	Spanish (es) Orson Welles		9 105
4	French (fr) Orson Welles		8 573
5	German (de) Orson Welles		7 817
6	Russian (ru) Уэллс, Орсон		5 556
7	Japanese (ja) オーソン・ウェルズ		3 560
8	Portuguese (pt) Orson Welles		1 911
9	Swedish (sv) Orson Welles		1 854
10	Persian (fa) اورسن ولز		1 845

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Orson Welles		1 515
2	French (fr) Orson Welles		379
3	German (de) Orson Welles		331
4	Italian (it) Orson Welles		268
5	Spanish (es) Orson Welles		189
6	Russian (ru) Уэллс, Орсон		149
7	Japanese (ja) オーソン・ウェルズ		98
8	Dutch (nl) Orson Welles		98
9	Polish (pl) Orson Welles		95
10	Hebrew (he) אורסון ולס		94

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	Arabic (ar) أورسن ويلز		3
2	French (fr) Orson Welles		3
3	German (de) Orson Welles		2
4	English (en) Orson Welles		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Orson Uells		1
6	Czech (cs) Orson Welles		1
7	Spanish (es) Orson Welles		1
8	Basque (eu) Orson Welles		1
9	Hebrew (he) אורסון ולס		1
10	Croatian (hr) Orson Welles		1

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

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