2016 Summer Olympics

Quality:

2016 Summer Olympics - Games of the XXXI Olympiad, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This event is the 31^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 35^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “2016 Summer Olympics” in English Wikipedia has 81.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 164 references and 35 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.01 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 1314^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 2906^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 35^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1162^nd most popular in all topics.

The 2119^th most popular in AI.

The 31^st most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “2016 Summer Olympics” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “2016 Summer Olympics”, its content was written by 1369 registered users of English Wikipedia (2906^th place) and edited by 4937 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2119^th place).

2016 Summer Olympics is on the 35^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 31^st place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 12274 times in English Wikipedia (1541^st place) and cited 98537 times in all languages (1380^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14 in August 2016
• Global: #1 in August 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2 in August 2016
• Global: #1 in August 2016

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	Malay (ms) Sukan Olimpik Musim Panas 2016		95.7967
2	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016		94.992
3	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 2016		92.6159
4	Hebrew (he) אולימפיאדת ריו דה ז'ניירו (2016)		92.3745
5	Indonesian (id) Olimpiade Musim Panas 2016		84.9669
6	Chinese (zh) 2016年夏季奧林匹克運動會		84.863
7	Croatian (hr) XXXI. Olimpijske igre – Rio de Janeiro 2016.		83.429
8	English (en) 2016 Summer Olympics		81.1042
9	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 2016		80.6091
10	Romanian (ro) Jocurile Olimpice de vară din 2016		78.8449

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2016 Summer Olympics		38 612 759
2	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016		7 516 867
3	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 2016		5 515 695
4	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 2016		4 523 708
5	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016		4 337 545
6	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 2016		3 903 737
7	Japanese (ja) 2016年リオデジャネイロオリンピック		3 384 962
8	Chinese (zh) 2016年夏季奧林匹克運動會		2 558 953
9	Italian (it) Giochi della XXXI Olimpiade		2 266 993
10	Polish (pl) Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 2016		2 172 253

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) 2016 Summer Olympics		29 174
2	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 2016		5 058
3	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016		3 878
4	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016		3 270
5	Japanese (ja) 2016年リオデジャネイロオリンピック		2 459
6	Chinese (zh) 2016年夏季奧林匹克運動會		2 142
7	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 2016		2 112
8	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 2016		2 106
9	Italian (it) Giochi della XXXI Olimpiade		2 082
10	Polish (pl) Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 2016		1 156

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2016 Summer Olympics		1 369
2	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 2016		345
3	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'été de 2016		321
4	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016		299
5	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016		247
6	Chinese (zh) 2016年夏季奧林匹克運動會		189
7	Russian (ru) Летние Олимпийские игры 2016		176
8	Italian (it) Giochi della XXXI Olimpiade		154
9	Japanese (ja) 2016年リオデジャネイロオリンピック		145
10	Hebrew (he) אולימפיאדת ריו דה ז'ניירו (2016)		127

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	Italian (it) Giochi della XXXI Olimpiade		3
2	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016		2
3	Finnish (fi) Kesäolympialaiset 2016		2
4	Chinese (zh) 2016年夏季奧林匹克運動會		2
5	German (de) Olympische Sommerspiele 2016		1
6	English (en) 2016 Summer Olympics		1
7	Persian (fa) المپیک تابستانی ۲۰۱۶		1
8	Hebrew (he) אולימפיאדת ריו דה ז'ניירו (2016)		1
9	Dutch (nl) Olympische Zomerspelen 2016		1
10	Arabic (ar) الألعاب الأولمبية الصيفية 2016		0

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

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