Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin - American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, diplomat, Founding Father (1706–1790). This person is the 302^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 275^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article "Benjamin Franklin" in English Wikipedia has 93.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 333 references and 53 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 549^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 439^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 275^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 836^th most popular in all topics.

The 726^th most popular in AI.

The 302^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 992^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 9439^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1010^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6115^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Benjamin Franklin" was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (9439^th place) and written by 30 authors in all languages (6115^th place).

Since the creation of article "Benjamin Franklin", its content was written by 2361 registered users of English Wikipedia (439^th place) and edited by 6934 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (726^th place).

Benjamin Franklin is on the 275^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 302^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 5256 times in English Wikipedia (4216^th place) and cited 20568 times in all languages (7718^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #65 in November 2005
• Global: #220 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #184 in April 2024
• Global: #249 in April 2024

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	Hindi (hi) बेंजामिन फ्रैंकलिन		99.9876
2	Esperanto (eo) Benjamin Franklin		98.0952
3	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		98.0396
4	Chinese (zh) 本傑明·富蘭克林		95.0627
5	English (en) Benjamin Franklin		93.2788
6	Vietnamese (vi) Benjamin Franklin		68.6325
7	Polish (pl) Benjamin Franklin		66.1826
8	Turkish (tr) Benjamin Franklin		64.5493
9	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		63.9264
10	Tamil (ta) பெஞ்சமின் பிராங்கிளின்		62.4049

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Benjamin Franklin		53 638 229
2	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		10 422 454
3	Russian (ru) Франклин, Бенджамин		4 785 492
4	French (fr) Benjamin Franklin		3 795 355
5	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		3 244 386
6	Portuguese (pt) Benjamin Franklin		2 544 749
7	Japanese (ja) ベンジャミン・フランクリン		2 345 733
8	Italian (it) Benjamin Franklin		1 614 571
9	Chinese (zh) 本傑明·富蘭克林		1 445 885
10	Polish (pl) Benjamin Franklin		1 399 359

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) Benjamin Franklin		294 610
2	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		39 615
3	Russian (ru) Франклин, Бенджамин		26 849
4	French (fr) Benjamin Franklin		20 912
5	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		13 906
6	Portuguese (pt) Benjamin Franklin		13 519
7	Japanese (ja) ベンジャミン・フランクリン		13 275
8	Chinese (zh) 本傑明·富蘭克林		12 563
9	Arabic (ar) بنجامين فرانكلين		12 231
10	Italian (it) Benjamin Franklin		7 871

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Benjamin Franklin		2 361
2	French (fr) Benjamin Franklin		531
3	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		412
4	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		393
5	Russian (ru) Франклин, Бенджамин		257
6	Italian (it) Benjamin Franklin		237
7	Hebrew (he) בנג'מין פרנקלין		166
8	Portuguese (pt) Benjamin Franklin		154
9	Dutch (nl) Benjamin Franklin		140
10	Chinese (zh) 本傑明·富蘭克林		133

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) Benjamin Franklin		10
2	Japanese (ja) ベンジャミン・フランクリン		3
3	Spanish (es) Benjamin Franklin		2
4	Italian (it) Benjamin Franklin		2
5	Simple English (simple) Benjamin Franklin		2
6	Serbian (sr) Бенџамин Френклин		2
7	Turkish (tr) Benjamin Franklin		2
8	German (de) Benjamin Franklin		1
9	Hindi (hi) बेंजामिन फ्रैंकलिन		1
10	Lithuanian (lt) Benjamin Franklin		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 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