Richard III

Quality:

Richard III of England - king of England from 1483 to 1485. This person is the 1285^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 368^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Richard III” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Greek 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 3131^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3820^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 368^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4116^th most popular in all topics.

The 4279^th most popular in AI.

The 1285^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2964^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3974^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Richard III”, its content was written by 42 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3820^th place) and edited by 3856 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4279^th place).

Richard III of England is on the 368^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1285^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 117 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9947 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #36 in April 2024
• Global: #8 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #311 in February 2013
• Global: #16 in February 2013

There are 53 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	Greek (el) Ριχάρδος Γ΄ της Αγγλίας		100
2	English (en) Richard III of England		99.6158
3	Italian (it) Riccardo III d'Inghilterra		84.964
4	German (de) Richard III. (England)		79.8824
5	Hungarian (hu) III. Richárd angol király		76.31
6	Turkish (tr) III. Richard		67.2472
7	Finnish (fi) Rikhard III		66.0917
8	French (fr) Richard III		64.1482
9	Russian (ru) Ричард III		60.996
10	Slovenian (sl) Rihard III. Angleški		54.8092

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Richard III of England		27 992 244
2	Russian (ru) Ричард III		2 881 325
3	German (de) Richard III. (England)		2 434 673
4	Spanish (es) Ricardo III de Inglaterra		2 192 694
5	French (fr) Richard III		2 139 870
6	Japanese (ja) リチャード3世 (イングランド王)		1 860 234
7	Italian (it) Riccardo III d'Inghilterra		1 216 656
8	Polish (pl) Ryszard III York		967 184
9	Portuguese (pt) Ricardo III de Inglaterra		834 390
10	Chinese (zh) 理查三世		581 545

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 III of England		113 631
2	Russian (ru) Ричард III		11 106
3	Spanish (es) Ricardo III de Inglaterra		9 365
4	Japanese (ja) リチャード3世 (イングランド王)		8 695
5	German (de) Richard III. (England)		7 251
6	Italian (it) Riccardo III d'Inghilterra		5 675
7	French (fr) Richard III		5 381
8	Portuguese (pt) Ricardo III de Inglaterra		2 610
9	Chinese (zh) 理查三世		2 237
10	Polish (pl) Ryszard III York		2 227

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Richard III of England		1 337
2	German (de) Richard III. (England)		296
3	French (fr) Richard III		236
4	Italian (it) Riccardo III d'Inghilterra		189
5	Russian (ru) Ричард III		183
6	Dutch (nl) Richard III van Engeland		119
7	Hebrew (he) ריצ'רד השלישי, מלך אנגליה		109
8	Japanese (ja) リチャード3世 (イングランド王)		106
9	Spanish (es) Ricardo III de Inglaterra		98
10	Polish (pl) Ryszard III York		90

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 III of England		4
2	French (fr) Richard III		3
3	Italian (it) Riccardo III d'Inghilterra		3
4	Azerbaijani (az) III Riçard		2
5	Catalan (ca) Ricard III d'Anglaterra		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Річард III (король Англії)		1
7	Arabic (ar) ريتشارد الثالث (ملك إنجلترا)		0
8	Belarusian (be) Рычард III		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Ричард III		0
10	Czech (cs) Richard III.		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