Wayland

Wayland the Smith - Germanic mythological blacksmith. Article “Wayland” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Wayland”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 740 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3946 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1589 in June 2020
• Global: #11212 in April 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #21375 in March 2008
• Global: #79637 in February 2010

There are 25 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) Wayland the Smith		68.1706
2	German (de) Wieland der Schmied		36.7968
3	Greek (el) Βίλαντ ο σιδεράς		35.5891
4	Norwegian (no) Volund smed		34.7079
5	Finnish (fi) Wayland (jumala)		28.1792
6	French (fr) Völund		27.8948
7	Catalan (ca) Völundr		25.7371
8	Basque (eu) Völund		24.5742
9	Italian (it) Weland il fabbro		23.8894
10	Czech (cs) Kovář Wieland		22.3698

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Wayland" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wayland the Smith		1 421 501
2	German (de) Wieland der Schmied		535 863
3	Russian (ru) Велунд		228 692
4	Japanese (ja) ヴェルンド		132 708
5	Swedish (sv) Völund		96 323
6	Spanish (es) Völundr		95 579
7	French (fr) Völund		72 013
8	Italian (it) Weland il fabbro		56 874
9	Norwegian (no) Volund smed		32 561
10	Danish (da) Vølund Smed		22 432

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Wayland" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wayland the Smith		6 284
2	German (de) Wieland der Schmied		1 343
3	Russian (ru) Велунд		710
4	Japanese (ja) ヴェルンド		464
5	French (fr) Völund		314
6	Spanish (es) Völundr		178
7	Italian (it) Weland il fabbro		177
8	Swedish (sv) Völund		175
9	Norwegian (no) Volund smed		68
10	Korean (ko) 볼룬드		65

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

Language versions of the article "Wayland" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wayland the Smith		239
2	German (de) Wieland der Schmied		122
3	Russian (ru) Велунд		49
4	French (fr) Völund		39
5	Swedish (sv) Völund		35
6	Italian (it) Weland il fabbro		34
7	Dutch (nl) Wieland de Smid		30
8	Danish (da) Vølund Smed		29
9	Japanese (ja) ヴェルンド		23
10	Esperanto (eo) Volundo		20

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

Language versions of the article "Wayland" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Wieland der Schmied		1
2	English (en) Wayland the Smith		1
3	Basque (eu) Völund		1
4	Catalan (ca) Völundr		0
5	Czech (cs) Kovář Wieland		0
6	Danish (da) Vølund Smed		0
7	Greek (el) Βίλαντ ο σιδεράς		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Volundo		0
9	Spanish (es) Völundr		0
10	Finnish (fi) Wayland (jumala)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Wayland" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Wayland the Smith		730
2	Ukrainian (uk) Велюнд		417
3	Japanese (ja) ヴェルンド		390
4	Italian (it) Weland il fabbro		386
5	Danish (da) Vølund Smed		378
6	Swedish (sv) Völund		338
7	Norwegian (no) Volund smed		249
8	Korean (ko) 볼룬드		227
9	Galician (gl) Völundr		156
10	Turkish (tr) Demirci Völund		146

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Völundr
cs	Czech Kovář Wieland
da	Danish Vølund Smed
de	German Wieland der Schmied
el	Greek Βίλαντ ο σιδεράς
en	English Wayland the Smith
eo	Esperanto Volundo
es	Spanish Völundr
eu	Basque Völund
fi	Finnish Wayland (jumala)
fr	French Völund
gl	Galician Völundr
hu	Hungarian Völund
it	Italian Weland il fabbro
ja	Japanese ヴェルンド
ko	Korean 볼룬드
nl	Dutch Wieland de Smid
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Volund
no	Norwegian Volund smed
pl	Polish Wolundr
ru	Russian Велунд
simple	Simple English Wayland
sv	Swedish Völund
tr	Turkish Demirci Völund
uk	Ukrainian Велюнд

Best Rank

Simple English: #21375 03.2008

Global: #79637 02.2010

Best Rank

Simple English: #1589 06.2020

Global: #11212 04.2004

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