Protagonist

Quality:

Protagonist - main character of a creative work. Article “Protagonist” in English Wikipedia has 46.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 29 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Protagonist”, its content was written by 465 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1517 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3759 times in English Wikipedia (6971^st place) and cited 26369 times in all languages (6235^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3751 in March 2022
• Global: #7957 in October 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4402 in September 2009
• Global: #5925 in September 2009

There are 45 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Hovudperson		46.1864
2	English (en) Protagonist		46.1678
3	Catalan (ca) Protagonista		43.72
4	Japanese (ja) 主人公		42.1762
5	Kazakh (kk) Протагонист		36.8128
6	Spanish (es) Protagonista		32.9655
7	Indonesian (id) Protagonis		29.8141
8	Czech (cs) Protagonista		28.9302
9	Hungarian (hu) Főszereplő		26.2936
10	Arabic (ar) بطل الرواية		25.4737

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Protagonist		11 370 897
2	Russian (ru) Протагонист		2 858 254
3	German (de) Protagonist		2 790 724
4	Spanish (es) Protagonista		1 447 009
5	Japanese (ja) 主人公		930 223
6	Indonesian (id) Protagonis		774 577
7	Dutch (nl) Protagonist		673 874
8	Portuguese (pt) Protagonista		536 055
9	Italian (it) Protagonista		505 065
10	Polish (pl) Protagonista		501 855

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) Protagonist		29 134
2	Russian (ru) Протагонист		6 394
3	German (de) Protagonist		3 318
4	Japanese (ja) 主人公		2 345
5	Simple English (simple) Protagonist		1 888
6	Italian (it) Protagonista		1 261
7	Spanish (es) Protagonista		1 078
8	Chinese (zh) 主人公		1 059
9	Hebrew (he) פרוטגוניסט		1 052
10	French (fr) Protagoniste		913

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Protagonist		465
2	German (de) Protagonist		118
3	Japanese (ja) 主人公		91
4	Russian (ru) Протагонист		73
5	Spanish (es) Protagonista		67
6	Italian (it) Protagonista		65
7	French (fr) Protagoniste		61
8	Dutch (nl) Protagonist		61
9	Portuguese (pt) Protagonista		46
10	Norwegian (no) Protagonist		43

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) Protagonist		3
2	Kazakh (kk) Протагонист		2
3	Catalan (ca) Protagonista		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Ĉefrolulo		1
5	Italian (it) Protagonista		1
6	Korean (ko) 주인공		1
7	Russian (ru) Протагонист		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Nhân vật chính		1
9	Arabic (ar) بطل الرواية		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Protaqonist		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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