William Thomson

Quality:

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin - British physicist and engineer (1824–1908). This person is the 9418^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “William Thomson” in Simple English Wikipedia has 27.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7431^st most popular in AI.

The 9418^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9127^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “William Thomson” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (9127^th place) and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “William Thomson”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2927 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7431^st place).

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin is on the 9418^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 17 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8424 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1488 in February 2022
• Global: #893 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5287 in November 2020
• Global: #20832 in February 2015

There are 52 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	English (en) Lord Kelvin		91.3994
2	Chinese (zh) 开尔文勋爵		90.043
3	Czech (cs) William Thomson		59.8777
4	Catalan (ca) William Thomson		49.3808
5	Malay (ms) William Thomson, Baron Pertama Kelvin		48.1609
6	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		45.4985
7	Spanish (es) William Thomson		44.7375
8	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		39.8304
9	Swedish (sv) Lord Kelvin		39.5428
10	Hebrew (he) ויליאם תומסון		38.9641

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lord Kelvin		4 349 529
2	Spanish (es) William Thomson		1 968 631
3	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		650 917
4	Portuguese (pt) Lorde Kelvin		434 962
5	Russian (ru) Томсон, Уильям (лорд Кельвин)		403 816
6	French (fr) William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)		353 780
7	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		292 899
8	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・トムソン		281 580
9	Polish (pl) William Thomson		267 087
10	Chinese (zh) 开尔文勋爵		155 362

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) Lord Kelvin		19 377
2	Spanish (es) William Thomson		3 116
3	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		1 701
4	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・トムソン		1 486
5	Russian (ru) Томсон, Уильям (лорд Кельвин)		1 437
6	Chinese (zh) 开尔文勋爵		1 193
7	Portuguese (pt) Lorde Kelvin		1 102
8	French (fr) William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)		1 036
9	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		940
10	Simple English (simple) William Thomson		541

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lord Kelvin		774
2	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		257
3	French (fr) William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)		169
4	Italian (it) William Thomson, I barone Kelvin		169
5	Spanish (es) William Thomson		153
6	Dutch (nl) William Thomson (natuurkundige)		106
7	Russian (ru) Томсон, Уильям (лорд Кельвин)		95
8	Hebrew (he) ויליאם תומסון		92
9	Polish (pl) William Thomson		67
10	Hungarian (hu) William Thomson (matematikus)		65

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	Catalan (ca) William Thomson		5
2	English (en) Lord Kelvin		3
3	Hebrew (he) ויליאם תומסון		2
4	Czech (cs) William Thomson		1
5	German (de) William Thomson, 1. Baron Kelvin		1
6	Persian (fa) ویلیام تامسون		1
7	Simple English (simple) William Thomson		1
8	Turkish (tr) William Thomson		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Вільям Томсон		1
10	Arabic (ar) لورد كلفن		0

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

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