William Adams

Quality:

William Adams - English navigator who travelled to Japan. Article “William Adams” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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 “William Adams”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1355 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1435 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #456 in June 2016
• Global: #1679 in March 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5111 in June 2016
• Global: #367 in March 2024

There are 31 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) William Adams (samurai)		94.7613
2	Persian (fa) ویلیام آدامز (دریانورد)		92.589
3	Armenian (hy) Ուիլյամ Ադամս		78.6878
4	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・アダムス		56.9635
5	Chinese (zh) 三浦按針		50.8059
6	Indonesian (id) William Adams (pelaut)		48.7214
7	Spanish (es) William Adams (marino)		43.9093
8	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Άνταμς		42.3027
9	Dutch (nl) William Adams		36.4105
10	Russian (ru) Адамс, Уильям (штурман)		34.7451

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Adams (samurai)		3 866 634
2	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・アダムス		2 707 378
3	German (de) William Adams (Weltreisender)		494 211
4	Chinese (zh) 三浦按針		406 590
5	Spanish (es) William Adams (marino)		258 373
6	Russian (ru) Адамс, Уильям (штурман)		209 614
7	Italian (it) William Adams		161 719
8	French (fr) William Adams (navigateur anglais)		121 227
9	Polish (pl) William Adams (żeglarz)		87 578
10	Portuguese (pt) William Adams		75 907

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) William Adams (samurai)		21 277
2	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・アダムス		9 233
3	Chinese (zh) 三浦按針		1 668
4	Russian (ru) Адамс, Уильям (штурман)		1 660
5	German (de) William Adams (Weltreisender)		1 592
6	Spanish (es) William Adams (marino)		781
7	Italian (it) William Adams		651
8	French (fr) William Adams (navigateur anglais)		607
9	Polish (pl) William Adams (żeglarz)		304
10	Portuguese (pt) William Adams		195

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William Adams (samurai)		497
2	German (de) William Adams (Weltreisender)		138
3	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・アダムス		129
4	French (fr) William Adams (navigateur anglais)		94
5	Dutch (nl) William Adams		73
6	Spanish (es) William Adams (marino)		54
7	Italian (it) William Adams		51
8	Chinese (zh) 三浦按針		50
9	Russian (ru) Адамс, Уильям (штурман)		48
10	Hebrew (he) ויליאם אדמס		28

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) William Adams (samurai)		6
2	French (fr) William Adams (navigateur anglais)		1
3	Armenian (hy) Ուիլյամ Ադամս		1
4	Arabic (ar) ويليام آدمز		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Vilyam Adams (şturman)		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Уилям Адамс		0
7	Czech (cs) William Adams		0
8	German (de) William Adams (Weltreisender)		0
9	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Άνταμς		0
10	Esperanto (eo) William Adams		0

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

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