Paul McCartney

Quality:

Paul McCartney - English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942). This person is the 197^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 169^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article "Paul McCartney" in English Wikipedia has 98.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 567 references and 40 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 335^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 255^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 169^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 552^nd most popular in all topics.

The 426^th most popular in AI.

The 197^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1292^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1355^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1821^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Paul McCartney" was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 55 authors in all languages (1821^st place).

Since the creation of article "Paul McCartney", its content was written by 2690 registered users of English Wikipedia (255^th place) and edited by 8273 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (426^th place).

Paul McCartney is on the 169^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 197^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 7535 times in English Wikipedia (2594^th place) and cited 38189 times in all languages (4155^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #118 in May 2010
• Global: #149 in June 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #74 in June 2018
• Global: #126 in June 2022

There are 53 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	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		100
2	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		100
3	Chinese (zh) 保罗·麦卡特尼		100
4	Vietnamese (vi) Paul McCartney		100
5	Korean (ko) 폴 매카트니		100
6	Slovak (sk) Paul McCartney		100
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Paul McCartney		100
8	German (de) Paul McCartney		98.9132
9	French (fr) Paul McCartney		98.6221
10	English (en) Paul McCartney		98.3045

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Paul McCartney		65 126 027
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		10 662 514
3	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		5 818 897
4	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		5 549 290
5	German (de) Paul McCartney		5 306 440
6	French (fr) Paul McCartney		4 502 372
7	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		3 992 722
8	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		3 728 898
9	Polish (pl) Paul McCartney		1 986 605
10	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		1 531 976

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) Paul McCartney		254 878
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		42 860
3	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		21 501
4	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		20 633
5	German (de) Paul McCartney		17 908
6	French (fr) Paul McCartney		14 406
7	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		11 998
8	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		10 693
9	Polish (pl) Paul McCartney		7 595
10	Chinese (zh) 保罗·麦卡特尼		5 768

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Paul McCartney		2 690
2	Spanish (es) Paul McCartney		642
3	German (de) Paul McCartney		528
4	French (fr) Paul McCartney		487
5	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		401
6	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		381
7	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		304
8	Hebrew (he) פול מקרטני		251
9	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		244
10	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		239

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) Paul McCartney		10
2	English (en) Paul McCartney		8
3	Russian (ru) Маккартни, Пол		6
4	Japanese (ja) ポール・マッカートニー		5
5	Chinese (zh) 保罗·麦卡特尼		3
6	Italian (it) Paul McCartney		2
7	Dutch (nl) Paul McCartney		2
8	Polish (pl) Paul McCartney		2
9	Portuguese (pt) Paul McCartney		2
10	Romanian (ro) Paul McCartney		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