2018 FIFA World Cup

Quality:

2018 FIFA World Cup - 21st FIFA World Cup, held in Russia. This event is the 6^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 5^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article "2018 FIFA World Cup" in English Wikipedia has 92.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 315 references and 59 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 227^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 3324^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 5^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 172^nd most popular in all topics.

The 729^th most popular in AI.

The 6^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 611^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 6966^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 322^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1031^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "2018 FIFA World Cup" was edited by 12 authors in English Wikipedia (6966^th place) and written by 72 authors in all languages (1031^st place).

Since the creation of article "2018 FIFA World Cup", its content was written by 1270 registered users of English Wikipedia (3324^th place) and edited by 6932 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (729^th place).

2018 FIFA World Cup is on the 5^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 6^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 5552 times in English Wikipedia (3876^th place) and cited 54779 times in all languages (2842^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in June 2018
• Global: #1 in July 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1 in July 2018
• Global: #1 in June 2018

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 August 1, 2024 (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) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		100
2	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 2018		100
3	Hungarian (hu) 2018-as labdarúgó-világbajnokság		100
4	Malay (ms) Piala Dunia FIFA 2018		100
5	Tamil (ta) 2018 உலகக்கோப்பை காற்பந்து		100
6	Indonesian (id) Piala Dunia FIFA 2018		99.5931
7	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		98.8153
8	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ		98.0625
9	Vietnamese (vi) Giải vô địch bóng đá thế giới 2018		97.3336
10	Catalan (ca) Copa del Món de Futbol de 2018		94.8002

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup		75 306 249
2	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		16 889 887
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		16 651 632
4	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		10 368 894
5	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		9 772 489
6	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		6 862 673
7	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2018		6 323 448
8	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2018		5 603 677
9	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ		4 658 302
10	Chinese (zh) 2018年國際足協世界盃		4 547 456

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) 2018 FIFA World Cup		383 387
2	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		107 448
3	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		99 993
4	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		87 059
5	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		39 095
6	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2018		35 843
7	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2018		27 621
8	Persian (fa) جام جهانی فوتبال ۲۰۱۸		20 033
9	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		19 163
10	Turkish (tr) 2018 FIFA Dünya Kupası		14 954

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup		1 270
2	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		676
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		578
4	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		518
5	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		492
6	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2018		407
7	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 2018		242
8	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2018		237
9	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		211
10	Chinese (zh) 2018年國際足協世界盃		205

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) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2018		16
2	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup		12
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		9
4	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		8
5	Korean (ko) 2018년 FIFA 월드컵		6
6	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		3
7	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2018		3
8	Persian (fa) جام جهانی فوتبال ۲۰۱۸		2
9	Indonesian (id) Piala Dunia FIFA 2018		2
10	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		2

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

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