WRITER

Mike Godwin

1956 - Today

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Michael Wayne Godwin (born October 26, 1956) is an American attorney and author. He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and he created the Internet adage Godwin's law and the notion of an Internet meme. From July 2007 to October 2010, he was general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mike Godwin has received more than 461,370 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mike Godwin is the 6,196th most popular writer (down from 5,342nd in 2019), the 10,685th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,598th in 2019) and the 793rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 460k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Cyber rights
Computer networks, Freedom of speech, Internet
1998

Page views of Mike Godwins by language

Over the past year Mike Godwin has had the most page views in the with 44,489 views, followed by French (6,738), and Russian (4,908). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (54.07%), Portuguese (35.23%), and Hebrew (28.98%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mike Godwin ranks 6,196 out of 7,302. Before him are Alan Garner, Dmitry Gordon, John Barbour, Dejan Ajdačić, Fran Saleški Finžgar, and Dafydd ap Gwilym. After him are Sylvain Tesson, Birger Sjöberg, Bernice Rubens, Alain LeRoy Locke, Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, and Paolo Giordano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Mike Godwin ranks 499. Before him are Rebecca Harms, Alexander Zhukov, Kumiko Okae, Jean-François Larios, Ștefan Rusu, and Nenad Stojković. After him are Susan Solomon, Roger Michell, Patrick Leonard, Terry Chimes, Michael Cooper, and Peter Maurer.

Others Born in 1956

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mike Godwin ranks 10,685 out of 20,380. Before him are Arthur Fiedler (1894), Noname Jane (1977), Kathy Griffin (1960), Lisa Rinna (1963), Tamara E. Jernigan (1959), and Alex Chilton (1950). After him are Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746), Sam Snead (1912), Kevin Systrom (1983), Robert Lowery (1913), Cheryl Hines (1965), and Dorothy Abbott (1920).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Mike Godwin ranks 793. Before him are David McCullough (1933), Maxine Kumin (1925), Gillian Flynn (1971), Stephen Vincent Benét (1898), Lester Bangs (1948), and Amory Lovins (1947). After him are Alain LeRoy Locke (1885), Lorraine Hansberry (1930), Glenn Greenwald (1967), Emma Willard (1787), Cynthia Ozick (1928), and Lawrence Venuti (1953).

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