Richard Stallman

Quality:

Richard Stallman - American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project. This person is the 5854^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Richard Stallman” in Simple English Wikipedia has 8.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 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 2865^th most popular in AI.

The 5854^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2258^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Richard Stallman” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2258^th place) and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Richard Stallman”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 4576 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2865^th place).

Richard Stallman is on the 5854^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 27 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6678 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #566 in September 2008
• Global: #25 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3951 in August 2009
• Global: #4474 in October 2011

There are 54 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) Richard Stallman		97.6851
2	Korean (ko) 리처드 스톨먼		83.7762
3	Spanish (es) Richard Stallman		64.7202
4	Volapük (vo) Richard Stallman		62.1954
5	German (de) Richard Stallman		60.2966
6	Italian (it) Richard Stallman		58.3474
7	Chinese (zh) 理查德·斯托曼		52.272
8	French (fr) Richard Stallman		49.0184
9	Russian (ru) Столлман, Ричард Мэттью		45.6715
10	Arabic (ar) ريتشارد ستولمن		43.2496

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Richard Stallman		7 752 600
2	Spanish (es) Richard Stallman		2 376 233
3	French (fr) Richard Stallman		987 436
4	Russian (ru) Столлман, Ричард Мэттью		868 067
5	Italian (it) Richard Stallman		722 582
6	German (de) Richard Stallman		714 284
7	Japanese (ja) リチャード・ストールマン		452 520
8	Polish (pl) Richard Stallman		378 468
9	Portuguese (pt) Richard Stallman		371 057
10	Chinese (zh) 理查德·斯托曼		300 745

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) Richard Stallman		19 267
2	Russian (ru) Столлман, Ричард Мэттью		2 670
3	Spanish (es) Richard Stallman		2 520
4	German (de) Richard Stallman		1 957
5	French (fr) Richard Stallman		1 584
6	Japanese (ja) リチャード・ストールマン		1 349
7	Italian (it) Richard Stallman		877
8	Chinese (zh) 理查德·斯托曼		712
9	Polish (pl) Richard Stallman		556
10	Portuguese (pt) Richard Stallman		532

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Richard Stallman		1 335
2	French (fr) Richard Stallman		338
3	Spanish (es) Richard Stallman		319
4	German (de) Richard Stallman		301
5	Italian (it) Richard Stallman		208
6	Russian (ru) Столлман, Ричард Мэттью		168
7	Polish (pl) Richard Stallman		115
8	Dutch (nl) Richard M. Stallman		108
9	Chinese (zh) 理查德·斯托曼		103
10	Japanese (ja) リチャード・ストールマン		101

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) Richard Stallman		4
2	German (de) Richard Stallman		2
3	Arabic (ar) ريتشارد ستولمن		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Riçard Stolman		1
5	Catalan (ca) Richard Matthew Stallman		1
6	Spanish (es) Richard Stallman		1
7	Basque (eu) Richard Stallman		1
8	Georgian (ka) რიჩარდ სტოლმანი		1
9	Lithuanian (lt) Richard Stallman		1
10	Russian (ru) Столлман, Ричард Мэттью		1

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

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