Ritchie Valens

Quality:

Ritchie Valens - Latin American musician (1941–1959). This person is the 2523^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Ritchie Valens” in Simple English Wikipedia has 13 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.68 points.

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 8880^th most popular in all topics.

The 2523^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6694^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 29^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Ritchie Valens” was edited by 14 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (29^th place) and written by 21 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ritchie Valens”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1616 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Ritchie Valens is on the 2523^rd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1649 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #29 in June 2025
• Global: #2963 in February 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6694 in June 2025
• Global: #1605 in January 2020

There are 39 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, 2025 (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) Ritchie Valens		75.2141
2	Chinese (zh) 里奇·瓦倫斯		58.756
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Ritchie Valens		53.1596
4	German (de) Ritchie Valens		38.443
5	Norwegian (no) Ritchie Valens		34.0398
6	Galician (gl) Ritchie Valens		32.3056
7	Hungarian (hu) Ritchie Valens		31.5253
8	Dutch (nl) Ritchie Valens		28.8333
9	Ukrainian (uk) Річі Валенс		28.3096
10	Romanian (ro) Ritchie Valens		28.0369

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ritchie Valens		18 703 879
2	Spanish (es) Ritchie Valens		4 413 882
3	Portuguese (pt) Ritchie Valens		1 309 473
4	French (fr) Ritchie Valens		902 844
5	Polish (pl) Ritchie Valens		887 530
6	German (de) Ritchie Valens		656 215
7	Italian (it) Ritchie Valens		510 464
8	Dutch (nl) Ritchie Valens		349 772
9	Japanese (ja) リッチー・ヴァレンス		299 845
10	Russian (ru) Ричи Валенс		263 647

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) Ritchie Valens		76 995
2	Spanish (es) Ritchie Valens		11 020
3	Portuguese (pt) Ritchie Valens		3 934
4	German (de) Ritchie Valens		2 901
5	French (fr) Ritchie Valens		2 893
6	Greek (el) Ρίτσι Βάλενς		2 300
7	Italian (it) Ritchie Valens		1 721
8	Japanese (ja) リッチー・ヴァレンス		1 393
9	Dutch (nl) Ritchie Valens		1 235
10	Polish (pl) Ritchie Valens		1 204

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ritchie Valens		712
2	Spanish (es) Ritchie Valens		119
3	German (de) Ritchie Valens		99
4	French (fr) Ritchie Valens		84
5	Italian (it) Ritchie Valens		68
6	Dutch (nl) Ritchie Valens		60
7	Polish (pl) Ritchie Valens		51
8	Portuguese (pt) Ritchie Valens		48
9	Russian (ru) Ричи Валенс		36
10	Norwegian (no) Ritchie Valens		35

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	Simple English (simple) Ritchie Valens		14
2	English (en) Ritchie Valens		2
3	Spanish (es) Ritchie Valens		2
4	German (de) Ritchie Valens		1
5	Japanese (ja) リッチー・ヴァレンス		1
6	Turkish (tr) Ritchie Valens		1
7	Arabic (ar) ريتشي فالنس		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Ричи Валънс		0
9	Catalan (ca) Ritchie Valens		0
10	Czech (cs) Ritchie Valens		0

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

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