Thomas Edison

Quality:

Thomas Edison - American inventor and businessman (1847-1931). This person is the 163^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 64^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article "Thomas Edison" in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.9 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 634^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 385^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 64^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 451^st most popular in all topics.

The 380^th most popular in AI.

The 163^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1335^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 3954^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1806^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4864^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Thomas Edison" was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3954^th place) and written by 33 authors in all languages (4864^th place).

Since the creation of article "Thomas Edison", its content was written by 122 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (385^th place) and edited by 8539 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (380^th place).

Thomas Edison is on the 64^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 163^rd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 109 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15206 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3 in February 2011
• Global: #19 in February 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #220 in November 2015
• Global: #12 in February 2011

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	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		100
2	Hungarian (hu) Thomas Alva Edison		100
3	English (en) Thomas Edison		94.5198
4	Malay (ms) Thomas Edison		91.1983
5	Esperanto (eo) Thomas Alva Edison		88
6	French (fr) Thomas Edison		62.7115
7	Norwegian (no) Thomas Edison		62.1202
8	Ukrainian (uk) Томас Алва Едісон		61.0198
9	Arabic (ar) توماس إديسون		60.7624
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Thomas Alva Edison		60.0984

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thomas Edison		50 266 138
2	Spanish (es) Thomas Alva Edison		13 679 886
3	Turkish (tr) Thomas Edison		5 541 662
4	French (fr) Thomas Edison		5 525 334
5	Japanese (ja) トーマス・エジソン		5 450 914
6	Arabic (ar) توماس إديسون		5 084 468
7	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		4 650 449
8	Portuguese (pt) Thomas Edison		4 436 507
9	Russian (ru) Эдисон, Томас Алва		4 411 438
10	Italian (it) Thomas Edison		3 038 807

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) Thomas Edison		150 783
2	Spanish (es) Thomas Alva Edison		28 874
3	Indonesian (id) Thomas Edison		24 586
4	Russian (ru) Эдисон, Томас Алва		23 942
5	Japanese (ja) トーマス・エジソン		20 060
6	Persian (fa) توماس ادیسون		12 471
7	Italian (it) Thomas Edison		12 099
8	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		11 145
9	French (fr) Thomas Edison		10 587
10	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·爱迪生		10 215

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thomas Edison		2 069
2	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		564
3	French (fr) Thomas Edison		496
4	Spanish (es) Thomas Alva Edison		436
5	Japanese (ja) トーマス・エジソン		296
6	Italian (it) Thomas Edison		290
7	Turkish (tr) Thomas Edison		270
8	Russian (ru) Эдисон, Томас Алва		257
9	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·爱迪生		245
10	Hebrew (he) תומאס אלווה אדיסון		232

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	Spanish (es) Thomas Alva Edison		6
2	English (en) Thomas Edison		5
3	Japanese (ja) トーマス・エジソン		3
4	Arabic (ar) توماس إديسون		2
5	Persian (fa) توماس ادیسون		2
6	Indonesian (id) Thomas Edison		2
7	Romanian (ro) Thomas Edison		2
8	Russian (ru) Эдисон, Томас Алва		2
9	Chinese (zh) 托马斯·爱迪生		2
10	German (de) Thomas Alva Edison		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