Thomas Edison

Quality:

Thomas Edison - American inventor and businessman (1847–1931). This person is the 172^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 71^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Thomas Edison” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hungarian 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 642^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 347^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 71^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 465^th most popular in all topics.

The 391^st most popular in AI.

The 172^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 530^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2308^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4362^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Thomas Edison”, its content was written by 132 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (347^th place) and edited by 8709 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (391^st place).

Thomas Edison is on the 71^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 172^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 112 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15675 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3 in February 2011
• Global: #11 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #220 in November 2015
• Global: #12 in February 2011

There are 55 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	Hungarian (hu) Thomas Alva Edison		100
2	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		99.6299
3	Basque (eu) Thomas A. Edison		99.4987
4	English (en) Thomas Edison		94.3549
5	Portuguese (pt) Thomas Edison		93.9472
6	Malay (ms) Thomas Edison		91.8026
7	Esperanto (eo) Thomas Alva Edison		87.0833
8	French (fr) Thomas Edison		62.6011
9	Norwegian (no) Thomas Edison		62.4131
10	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·爱迪生		60.0242

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thomas Edison		51 916 179
2	Spanish (es) Thomas Alva Edison		14 049 799
3	French (fr) Thomas Edison		5 716 136
4	Turkish (tr) Thomas Edison		5 698 304
5	Japanese (ja) トーマス・エジソン		5 655 274
6	Arabic (ar) توماس إديسون		5 241 116
7	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		4 781 142
8	Russian (ru) Эдисон, Томас		4 647 828
9	Portuguese (pt) Thomas Edison		4 542 027
10	Italian (it) Thomas Edison		3 160 457

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) Thomas Edison		129 104
2	Spanish (es) Thomas Alva Edison		21 843
3	Japanese (ja) トーマス・エジソン		14 047
4	Russian (ru) Эдисон, Томас		12 080
5	French (fr) Thomas Edison		11 519
6	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·爱迪生		10 586
7	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		8 721
8	Italian (it) Thomas Edison		7 532
9	Portuguese (pt) Thomas Edison		6 889
10	Persian (fa) توماس ادیسون		5 638

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thomas Edison		2 094
2	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		576
3	French (fr) Thomas Edison		508
4	Spanish (es) Thomas Alva Edison		448
5	Japanese (ja) トーマス・エジソン		306
6	Italian (it) Thomas Edison		301
7	Turkish (tr) Thomas Edison		279
8	Russian (ru) Эдисон, Томас		260
9	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·爱迪生		254
10	Hebrew (he) תומאס אלווה אדיסון		238

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	Spanish (es) Thomas Alva Edison		5
2	English (en) Thomas Edison		3
3	Italian (it) Thomas Edison		3
4	Turkish (tr) Thomas Edison		3
5	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·爱迪生		3
6	Catalan (ca) Thomas Alva Edison		2
7	Czech (cs) Thomas Alva Edison		2
8	Korean (ko) 토머스 에디슨		2
9	Russian (ru) Эдисон, Томас		2
10	Bulgarian (bg) Томас Едисън		1

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information