Roanoke Colony

Quality:

Roanoke Colony - former colony in present-day Dare County, North Carolina, US (1585–1590). Article “Roanoke Colony” in Simple English Wikipedia has 85.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 42 references and 24 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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7859^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 7242^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9779^th most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4530^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Roanoke Colony”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7242^nd place) and edited by 1847 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1436 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #127 in April 2023
• Global: #379 in September 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #504 in January 2013
• Global: #51 in September 2016

There are 34 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) Roanoke Colony		100
2	Vietnamese (vi) Thuộc địa Roanoke		100
3	Simple English (simple) Roanoke Colony		85.1385
4	Portuguese (pt) Colônia de Roanoke		57.126
5	Korean (ko) 로어노크 식민지		45.886
6	Russian (ru) Роанок		44.3473
7	Hebrew (he) מושבת רואנוק		41.5353
8	German (de) Roanoke (Kolonie)		40.9561
9	Catalan (ca) Colònia de Roanoke		40.0605
10	Spanish (es) Colonia de Roanoke		37.4935

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Roanoke Colony		21 738 757
2	Russian (ru) Роанок		1 040 500
3	German (de) Roanoke (Kolonie)		1 024 054
4	Spanish (es) Colonia de Roanoke		843 687
5	French (fr) Colonie de Roanoke		654 472
6	Japanese (ja) ロアノーク植民地		472 478
7	Italian (it) Colonia di Roanoke		419 584
8	Portuguese (pt) Colônia de Roanoke		383 693
9	Polish (pl) Roanoke (kolonia)		311 251
10	Dutch (nl) Roanoke (kolonie)		114 201

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) Roanoke Colony		85 411
2	German (de) Roanoke (Kolonie)		4 773
3	Russian (ru) Роанок		3 782
4	Japanese (ja) ロアノーク植民地		2 632
5	Spanish (es) Colonia de Roanoke		2 607
6	French (fr) Colonie de Roanoke		2 192
7	Italian (it) Colonia di Roanoke		1 421
8	Simple English (simple) Roanoke Colony		1 199
9	Polish (pl) Roanoke (kolonia)		1 166
10	Portuguese (pt) Colônia de Roanoke		1 040

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Roanoke Colony		1 123
2	German (de) Roanoke (Kolonie)		121
3	French (fr) Colonie de Roanoke		82
4	Russian (ru) Роанок		81
5	Italian (it) Colonia di Roanoke		65
6	Spanish (es) Colonia de Roanoke		39
7	Hebrew (he) מושבת רואנוק		37
8	Polish (pl) Roanoke (kolonia)		35
9	Simple English (simple) Roanoke Colony		29
10	Portuguese (pt) Colônia de Roanoke		24

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) Roanoke Colony		8
2	Spanish (es) Colonia de Roanoke		2
3	Catalan (ca) Colònia de Roanoke		1
4	Hindi (hi) रोनोक कॉलोनी		1
5	Arabic (ar) مستعمرة روانوك		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Roanok koloniyası		0
7	Belarusian (be) Раанок (калонія)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Роаноук (колония)		0
9	Czech (cs) Kolonie Roanoke		0
10	German (de) Roanoke (Kolonie)		0

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

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