Half-Life 2

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Half-Life 2 - 2004 first-person shooter video game. This video game is the 72^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 41^st most popular video game in German Wikipedia. Article “Half-Life 2” in German Wikipedia has 89.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 7045^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 41^st most popular in video games in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3257^th most popular in AI.

The 72^nd most popular in video games.

In June 2026 the article “Half-Life 2” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Half-Life 2”, its content was written by 320 registered users of German Wikipedia (7045^th place) and edited by 4388 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3257^th place).

Half-Life 2 is on the 41^st place in local ranking of video games in German Wikipedia and on the 72^nd place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 140 times in German Wikipedia and cited 3877 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #154 in July 2006
• Global: #254 in January 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #2346 in July 2008
• Global: #1159 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, 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	German (de) Half-Life 2		89.3333
2	Swedish (sv) Half-Life 2		86.6667
3	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		84.2801
4	Ukrainian (uk) Half-Life 2		83.1561
5	English (en) Half-Life 2		81.8341
6	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		81.6348
7	French (fr) Half-Life 2		78.36
8	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		72.3362
9	Malay (ms) Half-Life 2		51.7977
10	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		44.9941

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Half-Life 2		13 648 541
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		5 139 011
3	German (de) Half-Life 2		1 575 582
4	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		1 486 156
5	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		744 830
6	Japanese (ja) ハーフライフ2		632 531
7	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		611 049
8	French (fr) Half-Life 2		578 702
9	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		450 310
10	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		351 283

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		26 926
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		7 504
3	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		2 166
4	German (de) Half-Life 2		1 592
5	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		1 464
6	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		1 116
7	French (fr) Half-Life 2		1 108
8	Japanese (ja) ハーフライフ2		1 033
9	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		942
10	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		598

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		1 678
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		432
3	German (de) Half-Life 2		320
4	French (fr) Half-Life 2		229
5	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		182
6	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		155
7	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		121
8	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		118
9	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		112
10	Swedish (sv) Half-Life 2		98

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	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		8
2	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		4
3	English (en) Half-Life 2		2
4	Arabic (ar) هاف-لايف 2		1
5	Catalan (ca) Half-Life 2		1
6	German (de) Half-Life 2		1
7	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		1
8	Turkish (tr) Half-Life 2		1
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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