William Shatner

Quality:

William Shatner - Canadian actor (born 1931). This person is the 1035^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “William Shatner” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3360^th most popular in all topics.

The 3802^nd most popular in AI.

The 1035^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5754^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 5275^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3031^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3812^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “William Shatner” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5275^th place) and written by 33 authors in all languages (3812^th place).

Since the creation of article “William Shatner”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 4022 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3802^nd place).

William Shatner is on the 1035^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 71 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10701 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #433 in May 2018
• Global: #90 in October 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2696 in December 2024
• Global: #124 in October 2021

There are 43 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	Swedish (sv) William Shatner		95.3483
2	Catalan (ca) William Shatner		90.7136
3	English (en) William Shatner		90.3915
4	Malay (ms) William Shatner		66.58
5	German (de) William Shatner		57.3713
6	Norwegian (no) William Shatner		46.2647
7	Russian (ru) Шетнер, Уильям		42.5814
8	Italian (it) William Shatner		38.267
9	French (fr) William Shatner		37.9924
10	Greek (el) Γουίλιαμ Σάτνερ		37.939

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Shatner		38 329 987
2	German (de) William Shatner		4 208 765
3	French (fr) William Shatner		1 440 937
4	Italian (it) William Shatner		1 297 727
5	Spanish (es) William Shatner		1 273 156
6	Russian (ru) Шетнер, Уильям		890 504
7	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・シャトナー		649 647
8	Portuguese (pt) William Shatner		589 701
9	Dutch (nl) William Shatner		320 646
10	Polish (pl) William Shatner		255 689

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 Shatner		189 568
2	German (de) William Shatner		14 392
3	Italian (it) William Shatner		7 457
4	French (fr) William Shatner		5 706
5	Spanish (es) William Shatner		4 143
6	Russian (ru) Шетнер, Уильям		3 185
7	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・シャトナー		2 992
8	Portuguese (pt) William Shatner		2 540
9	Simple English (simple) William Shatner		1 028
10	Dutch (nl) William Shatner		1 010

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William Shatner		2 125
2	German (de) William Shatner		319
3	French (fr) William Shatner		257
4	Italian (it) William Shatner		150
5	Russian (ru) Шетнер, Уильям		108
6	Spanish (es) William Shatner		99
7	Dutch (nl) William Shatner		91
8	Hebrew (he) ויליאם שאטנר		74
9	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・シャトナー		70
10	Norwegian (no) William Shatner		62

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	Swedish (sv) William Shatner		7
2	English (en) William Shatner		6
3	Catalan (ca) William Shatner		4
4	Italian (it) William Shatner		4
5	German (de) William Shatner		2
6	Spanish (es) William Shatner		2
7	Russian (ru) Шетнер, Уильям		2
8	Belarusian (be) Уільям Шэтнер		1
9	Danish (da) William Shatner		1
10	Finnish (fi) William Shatner		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