2008 Summer Olympics

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2008 Summer Olympics - Games of the XXIX Olympiad, in Beijing, China. This event is the 79^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 75^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “2008 Summer Olympics” in English Wikipedia has 91.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 171 references and 26 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3667^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 1255^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 75^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3061^st most popular in all topics.

The 865^th most popular in AI.

The 79^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “2008 Summer Olympics” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “2008 Summer Olympics”, its content was written by 1806 registered users of English Wikipedia (1255^th place) and edited by 6714 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (865^th place).

2008 Summer Olympics is on the 75^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 79^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 13676 times in English Wikipedia (1340^th place) and cited 107174 times in all languages (1257^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5 in August 2008
• Global: #1 in August 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3 in August 2008
• Global: #4 in August 2008

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, 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	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 2008		97.9231
2	Malay (ms) Sukan Olimpik Musim Panas 2008		95.9333
3	Norwegian (no) Sommer-OL 2008		93.5617
4	Bulgarian (bg) Летни олимпийски игри 2008		93.5033
5	English (en) 2008 Summer Olympics		91.1033
6	Chinese (zh) 2008年夏季奥林匹克运动会		87.819
7	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 2008		86.802
8	Hebrew (he) אולימפיאדת בייג'ינג (2008)		86.0295
9	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008		85.3152
10	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Pekín 2008		84.8453

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2008 Summer Olympics		23 833 486
2	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Pekín 2008		5 325 522
3	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 2008		3 998 870
4	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 2008		2 657 220
5	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2008		2 645 900
6	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008		2 175 428
7	Chinese (zh) 2008年夏季奥林匹克运动会		1 707 518
8	Italian (it) Giochi della XXIX Olimpiade		1 551 558
9	Polish (pl) Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 2008		1 502 380
10	Dutch (nl) Olympische Zomerspelen 2008		972 016

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) 2008 Summer Olympics		29 693
2	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 2008		5 352
3	Chinese (zh) 2008年夏季奥林匹克运动会		4 444
4	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Pekín 2008		3 038
5	Japanese (ja) 2008年北京オリンピック		2 416
6	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008		1 988
7	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 2008		1 881
8	Italian (it) Giochi della XXIX Olimpiade		1 844
9	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2008		1 742
10	Thai (th) โอลิมปิกฤดูร้อน 2008		1 137

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2008 Summer Olympics		1 806
2	Chinese (zh) 2008年夏季奥林匹克运动会		470
3	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 2008		455
4	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008		385
5	Italian (it) Giochi della XXIX Olimpiade		274
6	Japanese (ja) 2008年北京オリンピック		260
7	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Pekín 2008		249
8	Dutch (nl) Olympische Zomerspelen 2008		216
9	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 2008		214
10	Polish (pl) Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 2008		177

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) Juegos Olímpicos de Pekín 2008		2
2	Chinese (zh) 2008年夏季奥林匹克运动会		2
3	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 2008		1
4	English (en) 2008 Summer Olympics		1
5	Hebrew (he) אולימפיאדת בייג'ינג (2008)		1
6	Indonesian (id) Olimpiade Musim Panas 2008		1
7	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 2008		1
8	Arabic (ar) الألعاب الأولمبية الصيفية 2008		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) 2008 Yay Olimpiya Oyunları		0
10	Belarusian (be) Летнія Алімпійскія гульні 2008		0

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

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