Wolfgang Petersen

Quality:

Wolfgang Petersen - German film director (1941–2022). Article “Wolfgang Petersen” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 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.

Since the creation of article “Wolfgang Petersen”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1124 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2747 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1444 in July 2010
• Global: #73 in August 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #11841 in August 2022
• Global: #938 in August 2022

There are 40 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) Wolfgang Petersen		62.3811
2	Volapük (vo) Wolfgang Petersen		55.0199
3	Greek (el) Βόλφγκανγκ Πέτερσεν		36.1173
4	German (de) Wolfgang Petersen		35.9537
5	Armenian (hy) Վոլֆգանգ Փեթերսեն		35.5638
6	Polish (pl) Wolfgang Petersen		35.101
7	Hungarian (hu) Wolfgang Petersen		33.3185
8	Norwegian (no) Wolfgang Petersen		30.1455
9	Romanian (ro) Wolfgang Petersen		29.0745
10	Swedish (sv) Wolfgang Petersen		28.9085

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wolfgang Petersen		3 005 396
2	German (de) Wolfgang Petersen		1 847 281
3	French (fr) Wolfgang Petersen		445 318
4	Italian (it) Wolfgang Petersen		405 192
5	Russian (ru) Петерсен, Вольфганг		384 821
6	Spanish (es) Wolfgang Petersen		320 550
7	Japanese (ja) ウォルフガング・ペーターゼン		304 982
8	Polish (pl) Wolfgang Petersen		121 851
9	Portuguese (pt) Wolfgang Petersen		77 243
10	Dutch (nl) Wolfgang Petersen		58 800

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) Wolfgang Petersen		17 710
2	German (de) Wolfgang Petersen		5 379
3	Italian (it) Wolfgang Petersen		2 582
4	Russian (ru) Петерсен, Вольфганг		1 984
5	French (fr) Wolfgang Petersen		1 716
6	Spanish (es) Wolfgang Petersen		1 143
7	Japanese (ja) ウォルフガング・ペーターゼン		1 139
8	Polish (pl) Wolfgang Petersen		344
9	Portuguese (pt) Wolfgang Petersen		328
10	Chinese (zh) 沃尔夫冈·彼得森		314

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wolfgang Petersen		210
2	German (de) Wolfgang Petersen		194
3	French (fr) Wolfgang Petersen		95
4	Italian (it) Wolfgang Petersen		60
5	Russian (ru) Петерсен, Вольфганг		59
6	Dutch (nl) Wolfgang Petersen		49
7	Spanish (es) Wolfgang Petersen		46
8	Norwegian (no) Wolfgang Petersen		44
9	Japanese (ja) ウォルフガング・ペーターゼン		37
10	Danish (da) Wolfgang Petersen		29

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	German (de) Wolfgang Petersen		4
2	English (en) Wolfgang Petersen		3
3	Polish (pl) Wolfgang Petersen		1
4	Turkish (tr) Wolfgang Petersen		1
5	Arabic (ar) ولفغانغ بيترسن		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Волфганг Петерсен		0
7	Catalan (ca) Wolfgang Petersen		0
8	Czech (cs) Wolfgang Petersen		0
9	Danish (da) Wolfgang Petersen		0
10	Greek (el) Βόλφγκανγκ Πέτερσεν		0

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

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