James Cook

Quality:

James Cook - British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779). This person is the 1402^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “James Cook” in German Wikipedia has 69.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 4593^rd most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 1512^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4679^th most popular in all topics.

The 1387^th most popular in AI.

The 1402^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 5338^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

de

The 6609^th most editable in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5211^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1634^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “James Cook” was edited by 4 authors in German Wikipedia (6609^th place) and written by 50 authors in all languages (1634^th place).

Since the creation of article “James Cook”, its content was written by 540 registered users of German Wikipedia (1512^th place) and edited by 5700 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1387^th place).

James Cook is on the 1402^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 997 times in German Wikipedia and cited 16889 times in all languages (9889^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #128 in January 2023
• Global: #163 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #319 in October 2008
• Global: #2096 in March 2008

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 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) James Cook		100
2	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·庫克		98.4697
3	Italian (it) James Cook		95.6489
4	Polish (pl) James Cook		94.1176
5	Esperanto (eo) James Cook		93.6905
6	Finnish (fi) James Cook		82.2682
7	Catalan (ca) James Cook		75.0376
8	Galician (gl) James Cook		74.5383
9	Malay (ms) James Cook		69.7928
10	German (de) James Cook		69.2522

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) James Cook		20 698 760
2	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		3 640 280
3	German (de) James Cook		3 469 085
4	French (fr) James Cook		2 912 798
5	Spanish (es) James Cook		1 576 761
6	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・クック		1 174 910
7	Polish (pl) James Cook		1 119 724
8	Italian (it) James Cook		1 005 621
9	Dutch (nl) James Cook		590 819
10	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·庫克		473 950

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) James Cook		106 382
2	German (de) James Cook		11 961
3	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		11 830
4	French (fr) James Cook		6 008
5	Spanish (es) James Cook		4 704
6	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・クック		4 223
7	Italian (it) James Cook		3 716
8	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·庫克		2 985
9	Polish (pl) James Cook		2 960
10	Portuguese (pt) James Cook		2 007

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) James Cook		1 543
2	German (de) James Cook		540
3	French (fr) James Cook		386
4	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		266
5	Dutch (nl) James Cook		199
6	Italian (it) James Cook		196
7	Spanish (es) James Cook		164
8	Hebrew (he) ג'יימס קוק		162
9	Norwegian (no) James Cook		144
10	Polish (pl) James Cook		141

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) James Cook		34
2	German (de) James Cook		4
3	Spanish (es) James Cook		3
4	French (fr) James Cook		2
5	Greek (el) Τζέιμς Κουκ		1
6	Esperanto (eo) James Cook		1
7	Basque (eu) James Cook		1
8	Persian (fa) جیمز کوک		1
9	Portuguese (pt) James Cook		1
10	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		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