Basketball

Quality:

Basketball - team sport played on a court with baskets on either end. This event is the 4^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 31^st most popular event in German Wikipedia. Article “Basketball” in German Wikipedia has 78.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 39 references and 52 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 1165^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 910^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 31^st most popular in events in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 138^th most popular in all topics.

The 230^th most popular in AI.

The 4^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 9085^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3290^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1175^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Basketball” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 58 authors in all languages (1175^th place).

Since the creation of article “Basketball”, its content was written by 632 registered users of German Wikipedia (910^th place) and edited by 10148 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (230^th place).

Basketball is on the 31^st place in local ranking of events in German Wikipedia and on the 4^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 14207 times in German Wikipedia (352^nd place) and cited 312722 times in all languages (321^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #56 in May 2006
• Global: #17 in December 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #214 in June 2011
• Global: #13 in April 2015

There are 54 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, 2026 (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	Polish (pl) Koszykówka		100
2	French (fr) Basket-ball		95.4642
3	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		85.4569
4	German (de) Basketball		78.2236
5	Swedish (sv) Basket		76.3029
6	Esperanto (eo) Korbopilko		76.1521
7	English (en) Basketball		73.6121
8	Hindi (hi) बास्केटबॉल		70.9194
9	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		70.873
10	Estonian (et) Korvpall		65.4455

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		51 642 466
2	English (en) Basketball		46 458 041
3	Portuguese (pt) Basquetebol		15 948 039
4	Indonesian (id) Bola basket		14 141 530
5	Russian (ru) Баскетбол		9 526 281
6	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		7 463 870
7	French (fr) Basket-ball		7 455 263
8	German (de) Basketball		6 920 180
9	Italian (it) Pallacanestro		6 136 536
10	Arabic (ar) كرة السلة		5 927 176

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) Basketball		92 660
2	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		24 420
3	Russian (ru) Баскетбол		12 044
4	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		11 621
5	French (fr) Basket-ball		9 266
6	German (de) Basketball		8 295
7	Italian (it) Pallacanestro		5 871
8	Portuguese (pt) Basquetebol		3 952
9	Persian (fa) بسکتبال		3 938
10	Chinese (zh) 篮球		3 563

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basketball		2 092
2	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		749
3	German (de) Basketball		632
4	French (fr) Basket-ball		585
5	Italian (it) Pallacanestro		580
6	Hebrew (he) כדורסל		419
7	Dutch (nl) Basketbal		416
8	Portuguese (pt) Basquetebol		304
9	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		285
10	Turkish (tr) Basketbol		274

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) Baloncesto		17
2	English (en) Basketball		6
3	Hebrew (he) כדורסל		6
4	Korean (ko) 농구		5
5	Esperanto (eo) Korbopilko		3
6	German (de) Basketball		2
7	Finnish (fi) Koripallo		2
8	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		2
9	Russian (ru) Баскетбол		2
10	Simple English (simple) Basketball		2

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

On 16 March 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Sinners, Jessie Buckley, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Penn, One Battle After Another, Amy Madigan, Hamnet, Timothée Chalamet.

In German Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Oscarverleihung 2026, One Battle After Another, Blood & Sinners, Michael B. Jordan, Jessie Buckley, Jürgen Habermas, Sean Penn, Banksy, Liste der größten Auslegerbrücken, Amy Madigan.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information