Thomas Edison

Quality:

Thomas Edison - American inventor and businessman (1847–1931). This person is the 184^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 70^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Thomas Edison” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 5 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 658^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 356^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 70^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 481^st most popular in all topics.

The 390^th most popular in AI.

The 184^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1575^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3472^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4600^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Thomas Edison”, its content was written by 135 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (356^th place) and edited by 8810 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (390^th place).

Thomas Edison is on the 70^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 184^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 114 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16012 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3 in February 2011
• Global: #15 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #219 in November 2015
• Global: #13 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, 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) Thomas Edison		100
2	Hungarian (hu) Thomas Alva Edison		100
3	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		99.1131
4	Basque (eu) Thomas A. Edison		99.077
5	Portuguese (pt) Thomas Edison		93.6636
6	Malay (ms) Thomas Edison		92.2737
7	Esperanto (eo) Thomas Alva Edison		88.3333
8	Norwegian (no) Thomas Edison		65.3587
9	French (fr) Thomas Edison		63.2523
10	Galician (gl) Thomas Alva Edison		62.5993

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thomas Edison		53 408 937
2	Spanish (es) Thomas Alva Edison		14 301 139
3	French (fr) Thomas Edison		5 881 168
4	Japanese (ja) トーマス・エジソン		5 836 425
5	Turkish (tr) Thomas Edison		5 813 015
6	Arabic (ar) توماس إديسون		5 327 776
7	Russian (ru) Эдисон, Томас		5 027 730
8	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		4 927 471
9	Portuguese (pt) Thomas Edison		4 615 418
10	Italian (it) Thomas Edison		3 276 862

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		89 012
2	Spanish (es) Thomas Alva Edison		14 708
3	Japanese (ja) トーマス・エジソン		12 710
4	French (fr) Thomas Edison		9 028
5	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		8 913
6	Russian (ru) Эдисон, Томас		8 558
7	Turkish (tr) Thomas Edison		6 943
8	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·爱迪生		6 705
9	Persian (fa) توماس ادیسون		5 032
10	Italian (it) Thomas Edison		4 413

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		2 162
2	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		583
3	French (fr) Thomas Edison		520
4	Spanish (es) Thomas Alva Edison		457
5	Japanese (ja) トーマス・エジソン		317
6	Italian (it) Thomas Edison		308
7	Turkish (tr) Thomas Edison		283
8	Russian (ru) Эдисон, Томас		265
9	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·爱迪生		260
10	Hebrew (he) תומאס אלווה אדיסון		245

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) Thomas Edison		9
2	Serbian (sr) Томас Алва Едисон		5
3	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·爱迪生		3
4	Basque (eu) Thomas A. Edison		2
5	Polish (pl) Thomas Alva Edison		2
6	Arabic (ar) توماس إديسون		1
7	Catalan (ca) Thomas Alva Edison		1
8	Persian (fa) توماس ادیسون		1
9	French (fr) Thomas Edison		1
10	Italian (it) Thomas Edison		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 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