Bill Cosby

Quality:

Bill Cosby - American actor and comedian. This person is the 850^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 519^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Bill Cosby” in English Wikipedia has 94.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 239 references and 28 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1050^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 433^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 519^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2719^th most popular in all topics.

The 3514^th most popular in AI.

The 850^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2177^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3545^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Bill Cosby” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Bill Cosby”, its content was written by 2416 registered users of English Wikipedia (433^rd place) and edited by 4180 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3514^th place).

Bill Cosby is on the 519^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 850^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 2477 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7148 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #28 in February 2008
• Global: #82 in September 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #45 in September 2018
• Global: #86 in September 2018

There are 43 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) Bill Cosby		94.5679
2	Spanish (es) Bill Cosby		85.5
3	Simple English (simple) Bill Cosby		80.5444
4	German (de) Bill Cosby		65.1126
5	Italian (it) Bill Cosby		64.0134
6	Arabic (ar) بيل كوسبي		59.572
7	Polish (pl) Bill Cosby		52.0475
8	Vietnamese (vi) Bill Cosby		46.8438
9	Portuguese (pt) Bill Cosby		45.9888
10	Hebrew (he) ביל קוסבי		44.4014

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bill Cosby		42 670 849
2	German (de) Bill Cosby		3 255 521
3	Italian (it) Bill Cosby		2 392 937
4	Spanish (es) Bill Cosby		1 918 657
5	French (fr) Bill Cosby		1 466 993
6	Russian (ru) Косби, Билл		774 952
7	Polish (pl) Bill Cosby		739 622
8	Portuguese (pt) Bill Cosby		620 092
9	Dutch (nl) Bill Cosby		432 980
10	Swedish (sv) Bill Cosby		323 834

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) Bill Cosby		170 286
2	German (de) Bill Cosby		8 989
3	Italian (it) Bill Cosby		7 863
4	Spanish (es) Bill Cosby		7 112
5	French (fr) Bill Cosby		5 509
6	Russian (ru) Косби, Билл		2 403
7	Portuguese (pt) Bill Cosby		2 173
8	Simple English (simple) Bill Cosby		2 170
9	Polish (pl) Bill Cosby		1 926
10	Dutch (nl) Bill Cosby		1 292

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bill Cosby		2 416
2	German (de) Bill Cosby		268
3	Italian (it) Bill Cosby		198
4	French (fr) Bill Cosby		151
5	Spanish (es) Bill Cosby		125
6	Dutch (nl) Bill Cosby		92
7	Hebrew (he) ביל קוסבי		91
8	Simple English (simple) Bill Cosby		81
9	Polish (pl) Bill Cosby		57
10	Finnish (fi) Bill Cosby		52

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) Bill Cosby		9
2	Bulgarian (bg) Бил Козби		1
3	German (de) Bill Cosby		1
4	Korean (ko) 빌 코스비		1
5	Turkish (tr) Bill Cosby		1
6	Chinese (zh) 比爾·寇司比		1
7	Arabic (ar) بيل كوسبي		0
8	Catalan (ca) Bill Cosby		0
9	Czech (cs) Bill Cosby		0
10	Danish (da) Bill Cosby		0

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