James Cook

Quality:

James Cook - British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779). This person is the 1402^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 805^th most popular person in Slovenian Wikipedia. Article “James Cook” in Slovenian Wikipedia has 39.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 8 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Slovenian Wikipedia:

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The 5297^th most popular in Slovenian Wikipedia.

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The 7769^th most editable in Slovenian Wikipedia.

The 805^th most popular in people in Slovenian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4679^th most popular in all topics.

The 1387^th most popular in AI.

The 1402^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5211^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1634^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “James Cook”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Slovenian Wikipedia (7769^th place) and edited by 5700 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1387^th place).

James Cook is on the 805^th place in local ranking of people in Slovenian Wikipedia and on the 1402^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 338 times in Slovenian Wikipedia (4239^th place) and cited 16889 times in all languages (9889^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Slovenian): #187 in September 2010
• Global: #163 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Slovenian): #844 in April 2021
• Global: #2096 in March 2008

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 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) James Cook		100
2	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·庫克		98.4697
3	Italian (it) James Cook		95.6489
4	Polish (pl) James Cook		94.1176
5	Esperanto (eo) James Cook		93.6905
6	Finnish (fi) James Cook		82.2682
7	Catalan (ca) James Cook		75.0376
8	Galician (gl) James Cook		74.5383
9	Malay (ms) James Cook		69.7928
10	German (de) James Cook		69.2522

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) James Cook		20 698 760
2	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		3 640 280
3	German (de) James Cook		3 469 085
4	French (fr) James Cook		2 912 798
5	Spanish (es) James Cook		1 576 761
6	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・クック		1 174 910
7	Polish (pl) James Cook		1 119 724
8	Italian (it) James Cook		1 005 621
9	Dutch (nl) James Cook		590 819
10	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·庫克		473 950

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) James Cook		106 382
2	German (de) James Cook		11 961
3	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		11 830
4	French (fr) James Cook		6 008
5	Spanish (es) James Cook		4 704
6	Japanese (ja) ジェームズ・クック		4 223
7	Italian (it) James Cook		3 716
8	Chinese (zh) 詹姆斯·庫克		2 985
9	Polish (pl) James Cook		2 960
10	Portuguese (pt) James Cook		2 007

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) James Cook		1 543
2	German (de) James Cook		540
3	French (fr) James Cook		386
4	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		266
5	Dutch (nl) James Cook		199
6	Italian (it) James Cook		196
7	Spanish (es) James Cook		164
8	Hebrew (he) ג'יימס קוק		162
9	Norwegian (no) James Cook		144
10	Polish (pl) James Cook		141

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) James Cook		34
2	German (de) James Cook		4
3	Spanish (es) James Cook		3
4	French (fr) James Cook		2
5	Greek (el) Τζέιμς Κουκ		1
6	Esperanto (eo) James Cook		1
7	Basque (eu) James Cook		1
8	Persian (fa) جیمز کوک		1
9	Portuguese (pt) James Cook		1
10	Russian (ru) Кук, Джеймс		1

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

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