2008 in rail transport

2008 in rail transport - rail transport-related events during the year of 2008. Article “2008 in rail transport” in English Wikipedia has 38.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.79 points.

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

Since the creation of article “2008 in rail transport”, its content was written by 44 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 181 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1389 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #91382 in March 2011
• Global: #57496 in January 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #387852 in August 2008
• Global: #213111 in March 2008

There are 6 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	Hungarian (hu) 2008 a vasúti közlekedésben		72.1599
2	English (en) 2008 in rail transport		38.4895
3	Chinese (zh) 2008年鐵路		27.6284
4	Japanese (ja) 2008年の鉄道		26.6234
5	Russian (ru) 2008 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		22.3618
6	French (fr) 2008 dans les chemins de fer		2.6478

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

The most popular language versions of the article "2008 in rail transport" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 2008年の鉄道		77 115
2	English (en) 2008 in rail transport		42 054
3	French (fr) 2008 dans les chemins de fer		20 213
4	Russian (ru) 2008 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		18 612
5	Hungarian (hu) 2008 a vasúti közlekedésben		8 666
6	Chinese (zh) 2008年鐵路		2 027

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "2008 in rail transport" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 2008年の鉄道		147
2	Russian (ru) 2008 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		91
3	English (en) 2008 in rail transport		76
4	French (fr) 2008 dans les chemins de fer		53
5	Hungarian (hu) 2008 a vasúti közlekedésben		47
6	Chinese (zh) 2008年鐵路		30

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

Language versions of the article "2008 in rail transport" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 2008年の鉄道		64
2	English (en) 2008 in rail transport		44
3	Hungarian (hu) 2008 a vasúti közlekedésben		29
4	French (fr) 2008 dans les chemins de fer		20
5	Russian (ru) 2008 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		18
6	Chinese (zh) 2008年鐵路		6

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

Language versions of the article "2008 in rail transport" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2008 in rail transport		0
2	French (fr) 2008 dans les chemins de fer		0
3	Hungarian (hu) 2008 a vasúti közlekedésben		0
4	Japanese (ja) 2008年の鉄道		0
5	Russian (ru) 2008 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		0
6	Chinese (zh) 2008年鐵路		0

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

Language versions of the article "2008 in rail transport" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) 2008 dans les chemins de fer		803
2	Russian (ru) 2008 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта		291
3	Chinese (zh) 2008年鐵路		173
4	Japanese (ja) 2008年の鉄道		94
5	Hungarian (hu) 2008 a vasúti közlekedésben		20
6	English (en) 2008 in rail transport		8

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#	Language	Value
en	English 2008 in rail transport
fr	French 2008 dans les chemins de fer
hu	Hungarian 2008 a vasúti közlekedésben
ja	Japanese 2008年の鉄道
ru	Russian 2008 год в истории железнодорожного транспорта
zh	Chinese 2008年鐵路

Best Rank

English: #387852 08.2008

Global: #213111 03.2008

Best Rank

English: #91382 03.2011

Global: #57496 01.2009

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