Half-Life 2

Quality:

Half-Life 2 - 2004 first-person shooter video game. This video game is the 66^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 40^th most popular video game in German Wikipedia. Article “Half-Life 2” in German Wikipedia has 90 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 97 references and 29 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 6819^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 40^th most popular in video games in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3257^th most popular in AI.

The 66^th most popular in video games.

In June 2025 the article “Half-Life 2” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Half-Life 2”, its content was written by 319 registered users of German Wikipedia (6819^th place) and edited by 4333 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3257^th place).

Half-Life 2 is on the 40^th place in local ranking of video games in German Wikipedia and on the 66^th place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 151 times in German Wikipedia and cited 3849 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #148 in July 2006
• Global: #255 in January 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #2342 in July 2008
• Global: #1167 in January 2008

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	German (de) Half-Life 2		90
2	Swedish (sv) Half-Life 2		86.6667
3	English (en) Half-Life 2		85.5826
4	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		84.3073
5	Ukrainian (uk) Half-Life 2		83.3333
6	French (fr) Half-Life 2		78.4982
7	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		72.764
8	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		72.1267
9	Malay (ms) Half-Life 2		51.7448
10	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		46.2033

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Half-Life 2		13 246 134
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		5 002 045
3	German (de) Half-Life 2		1 552 042
4	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		1 453 840
5	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		637 016
6	Japanese (ja) ハーフライフ2		620 192
7	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		595 941
8	French (fr) Half-Life 2		560 842
9	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		469 822
10	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		336 255

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) Half-Life 2		29 189
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		10 579
3	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		2 613
4	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		1 470
5	German (de) Half-Life 2		1 299
6	French (fr) Half-Life 2		1 267
7	Simple English (simple) Half-Life 2		1 216
8	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		1 104
9	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		954
10	Japanese (ja) ハーフライフ2		855

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Half-Life 2		1 650
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		427
3	German (de) Half-Life 2		319
4	French (fr) Half-Life 2		224
5	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		179
6	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		153
7	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		124
8	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		110
9	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		107
10	Swedish (sv) Half-Life 2		96

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) Half-Life 2		3
2	German (de) Half-Life 2		1
3	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		1
5	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		1
6	Slovak (sk) Half-Life 2		1
7	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		1
8	Arabic (ar) هاف-لايف 2		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Half-Life 2		0
10	Belarusian (be) Half-Life 2		0

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

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