William Shakespeare

Quality:

William Shakespeare - English playwright and poet (1564–1616). This person is the 32^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 27^th most popular person in Swedish Wikipedia. Article "William Shakespeare" in Swedish Wikipedia has 99.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 124 references and 23 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Swedish Wikipedia:

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The 121^st most popular in Swedish Wikipedia.

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The 108^th most editable in Swedish Wikipedia.

The 27^th most popular in people in Swedish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 94^th most popular in all topics.

The 164^th most popular in AI.

The 32^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Swedish Wikipedia:

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The 1965^th most popular in Swedish Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 159^th most editable in Swedish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 889^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1560^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "William Shakespeare" was edited by 5 authors in Swedish Wikipedia (159^th place) and written by 59 authors in all languages (1560^th place).

Since the creation of article "William Shakespeare", its content was written by 297 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia (108^th place) and edited by 10625 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (164^th place).

William Shakespeare is on the 27^th place in local ranking of people in Swedish Wikipedia and on the 32^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 3028 times in Swedish Wikipedia (1206^th place) and cited 95881 times in all languages (1389^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Swedish): #9 in September 2003
• Global: #33 in October 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Swedish): #14 in April 2016
• Global: #10 in April 2016

There are 55 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 August 1, 2024 (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) William Shakespeare		100
2	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		100
3	Chinese (zh) 威廉·莎士比亚		100
4	Czech (cs) William Shakespeare		100
5	Greek (el) Ουίλλιαμ Σαίξπηρ		100
6	Indonesian (id) William Shakespeare		100
7	Armenian (hy) Ուիլյամ Շեքսպիր		100
8	Esperanto (eo) William Shakespeare		100
9	Swedish (sv) William Shakespeare		99.3808
10	Thai (th) วิลเลียม เชกสเปียร์		98.6092

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) William Shakespeare		101 254 989
2	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		25 148 132
3	French (fr) William Shakespeare		9 838 321
4	German (de) William Shakespeare		9 412 380
5	Russian (ru) Шекспир, Уильям		9 104 876
6	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		7 811 603
7	Portuguese (pt) William Shakespeare		7 535 047
8	Polish (pl) William Shakespeare		6 279 810
9	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・シェイクスピア		6 213 545
10	Arabic (ar) وليم شكسبير		4 099 814

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 Shakespeare		283 589
2	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		52 955
3	Japanese (ja) ウィリアム・シェイクスピア		21 824
4	Russian (ru) Шекспир, Уильям		21 658
5	German (de) William Shakespeare		19 799
6	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		17 505
7	Chinese (zh) 威廉·莎士比亚		17 443
8	French (fr) William Shakespeare		15 026
9	Portuguese (pt) William Shakespeare		14 019
10	Persian (fa) ویلیام شکسپیر		13 196

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) William Shakespeare		2 549
2	French (fr) William Shakespeare		665
3	German (de) William Shakespeare		634
4	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		545
5	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		530
6	Russian (ru) Шекспир, Уильям		365
7	Swedish (sv) William Shakespeare		297
8	Polish (pl) William Shakespeare		296
9	Dutch (nl) William Shakespeare		283
10	Simple English (simple) William Shakespeare		276

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 Shakespeare		11
2	Persian (fa) ویلیام شکسپیر		6
3	Spanish (es) William Shakespeare		5
4	Hebrew (he) ויליאם שייקספיר		5
5	Swedish (sv) William Shakespeare		5
6	German (de) William Shakespeare		4
7	Bulgarian (bg) Уилям Шекспир		2
8	Czech (cs) William Shakespeare		2
9	Armenian (hy) Ուիլյամ Շեքսպիր		2
10	Italian (it) William Shakespeare		2

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 August, 2024. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from July 2024 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2023... More information