William the Silent

Quality:

William the Silent - Dutch statesman and revolt leader (1533-1584). This person is the 6642^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “William the Silent” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8641^st most popular in AI.

The 6642^nd most popular in people.

Since the creation of article “William the Silent”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2764 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8641^st place).

William the Silent is on the 6642^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 15 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8070 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #167 in November 2004
• Global: #469 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4346 in October 2008
• Global: #11054 in June 2026

There are 45 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	Dutch (nl) Willem van Oranje		100
2	French (fr) Guillaume Ier d'Orange-Nassau		93.4345
3	English (en) William the Silent		74.9725
4	Russian (ru) Вильгельм I Оранский		61.8201
5	German (de) Wilhelm I. (Oranien)		61.2863
6	Indonesian (id) Willem Sang Pendiam		61.2605
7	Ukrainian (uk) Вільгельм I Оранський		60.2668
8	Chinese (zh) 威廉一世 (奥兰治亲王)		57.6814
9	Swedish (sv) Vilhelm I av Oranien		52.6398
10	Italian (it) Guglielmo I d'Orange		45.5665

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William the Silent		4 937 355
2	Dutch (nl) Willem van Oranje		4 430 013
3	Spanish (es) Guillermo de Orange		919 506
4	German (de) Wilhelm I. (Oranien)		863 604
5	French (fr) Guillaume Ier d'Orange-Nassau		760 262
6	Russian (ru) Вильгельм I Оранский		721 816
7	Italian (it) Guglielmo I d'Orange		441 033
8	Portuguese (pt) Guilherme I, Príncipe de Orange		313 010
9	Japanese (ja) ウィレム1世 (オラニエ公)		298 687
10	Polish (pl) Wilhelm I Orański		275 832

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 the Silent		45 290
2	Dutch (nl) Willem van Oranje		14 952
3	German (de) Wilhelm I. (Oranien)		5 769
4	French (fr) Guillaume Ier d'Orange-Nassau		4 784
5	Spanish (es) Guillermo de Orange		4 473
6	Russian (ru) Вильгельм I Оранский		3 511
7	Japanese (ja) ウィレム1世 (オラニエ公)		3 405
8	Italian (it) Guglielmo I d'Orange		1 774
9	Chinese (zh) 威廉一世 (奥兰治亲王)		1 682
10	Portuguese (pt) Guilherme I, Príncipe de Orange		1 372

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William the Silent		574
2	Dutch (nl) Willem van Oranje		498
3	German (de) Wilhelm I. (Oranien)		249
4	French (fr) Guillaume Ier d'Orange-Nassau		217
5	Italian (it) Guglielmo I d'Orange		122
6	Russian (ru) Вильгельм I Оранский		115
7	Spanish (es) Guillermo de Orange		93
8	Danish (da) Vilhelm den Tavse		61
9	Portuguese (pt) Guilherme I, Príncipe de Orange		52
10	Swedish (sv) Vilhelm I av Oranien		50

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 the Silent		4
2	Korean (ko) 오라녀 공 빌럼 1세		3
3	Spanish (es) Guillermo de Orange		2
4	Turkish (tr) Willem (Oranj prensi)		2
5	Catalan (ca) Guillem I d'Orange-Nassau		1
6	French (fr) Guillaume Ier d'Orange-Nassau		1
7	Indonesian (id) Willem Sang Pendiam		1
8	Dutch (nl) Willem van Oranje		1
9	Chinese (zh) 威廉一世 (奥兰治亲王)		1
10	Arabic (ar) فيليم الصامت		0

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

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