William Faulkner

Quality:

William Faulkner - American writer (1897-1962). This person is the 3137^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “William Faulkner” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5675^th most popular in AI.

The 3137^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5884^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “William Faulkner” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5884^th place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “William Faulkner”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3337 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5675^th place).

William Faulkner is on the 3137^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 164 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13456 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #596 in May 2016
• Global: #557 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5628 in June 2012
• Global: #6028 in April 2008

There are 54 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	Chinese (zh) 威廉·福克納		98.7901
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) William Faulkner		97.7778
3	English (en) William Faulkner		95.2823
4	German (de) William Faulkner		56.2085
5	Catalan (ca) William Faulkner		48.6717
6	Polish (pl) William Faulkner		47.0682
7	Hungarian (hu) William Faulkner		43.8428
8	Georgian (ka) უილიამ ფოლკნერი		43.7889
9	Ukrainian (uk) Вільям Фолкнер		40.788
10	Basque (eu) William Faulkner		40.3576

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Faulkner		13 820 264
2	Spanish (es) William Faulkner		2 396 230
3	Russian (ru) Фолкнер, Уильям		1 386 541
4	French (fr) William Faulkner		1 147 916
5	German (de) William Faulkner		883 519
6	Italian (it) William Faulkner		849 719
7	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・フォークナー		704 216
8	Polish (pl) William Faulkner		490 776
9	Portuguese (pt) William Faulkner		409 596
10	Persian (fa) ویلیام فاکنر		377 314

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 Faulkner		59 577
2	Spanish (es) William Faulkner		6 579
3	Russian (ru) Фолкнер, Уильям		5 500
4	Italian (it) William Faulkner		4 075
5	French (fr) William Faulkner		3 930
6	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・フォークナー		3 026
7	German (de) William Faulkner		2 963
8	Chinese (zh) 威廉·福克納		1 740
9	Portuguese (pt) William Faulkner		1 337
10	Polish (pl) William Faulkner		1 187

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William Faulkner		948
2	French (fr) William Faulkner		212
3	German (de) William Faulkner		181
4	Italian (it) William Faulkner		155
5	Spanish (es) William Faulkner		145
6	Russian (ru) Фолкнер, Уильям		121
7	Dutch (nl) William Faulkner		83
8	Hungarian (hu) William Faulkner		76
9	Persian (fa) ویلیام فاکنر		75
10	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・フォークナー		74

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 Faulkner		6
2	German (de) William Faulkner		3
3	Turkish (tr) William Faulkner		3
4	French (fr) William Faulkner		2
5	Chinese (zh) 威廉·福克納		2
6	Spanish (es) William Faulkner		1
7	Dutch (nl) William Faulkner		1
8	Simple English (simple) William Faulkner		1
9	Arabic (ar) ويليام فوكنر		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Vilyam Folkner		0

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

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