BBC News

Quality:

BBC News - news division of the publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation. This company is the 592^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 322^nd most popular company in English Wikipedia. Article “BBC News” in English Wikipedia has 93.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 187 references and 24 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9609^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 322^nd most popular in business in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 592^nd most popular in business.

In June 2026 the article “BBC News” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “BBC News”, its content was written by 865 registered users of English Wikipedia (9609^th place) and edited by 1386 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

BBC News is on the 322^nd place in local ranking of business in English Wikipedia and on the 592^nd place in global ranking of business in all the time.

The article is cited 42804 times in English Wikipedia (275^th place) and cited 110176 times in all languages (1244^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1296 in December 2020
• Global: #2501 in November 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #478 in June 2008
• Global: #1418 in June 2008

There are 35 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	English (en) BBC News		93.4202
2	Chinese (zh) 英國廣播公司新聞部		48.07
3	Vietnamese (vi) BBC News		33.8048
4	Slovak (sk) BBC News		33.5302
5	Malay (ms) BBC News		31.9645
6	Ukrainian (uk) BBC News		31.4146
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) BBC News		29.8969
8	Greek (el) BBC News		29.6051
9	Catalan (ca) BBC News		27.6771
10	Bulgarian (bg) Би Би Си Нюз		26.0795

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BBC News		10 693 524
2	French (fr) BBC News		282 277
3	Spanish (es) BBC News		257 386
4	Japanese (ja) BBCニュース		239 566
5	Chinese (zh) 英國廣播公司新聞部		150 337
6	Portuguese (pt) BBC News		135 501
7	Russian (ru) BBC News		104 434
8	Arabic (ar) بي بي سي نيوز		84 009
9	Ukrainian (uk) BBC News		71 570
10	Italian (it) BBC News		71 391

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) BBC News		32 022
2	Spanish (es) BBC News		1 747
3	French (fr) BBC News		977
4	Chinese (zh) 英國廣播公司新聞部		828
5	Japanese (ja) BBCニュース		454
6	Russian (ru) BBC News		366
7	Vietnamese (vi) BBC News		315
8	Dutch (nl) BBC News		288
9	Portuguese (pt) BBC News		219
10	Italian (it) BBC News		181

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) BBC News		865
2	French (fr) BBC News		63
3	Japanese (ja) BBCニュース		47
4	Ukrainian (uk) BBC News		45
5	Chinese (zh) 英國廣播公司新聞部		38
6	Italian (it) BBC News		37
7	Dutch (nl) BBC News		36
8	Danish (da) BBC News		28
9	Portuguese (pt) BBC News		27
10	Spanish (es) BBC News		22

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	English (en) BBC News		2
2	Chinese (zh) 英國廣播公司新聞部		2
3	Arabic (ar) بي بي سي نيوز		1
4	Korean (ko) BBC 뉴스		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) BBC News		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Би Би Си Нюз		0
7	Catalan (ca) BBC News		0
8	Czech (cs) BBC News		0
9	Danish (da) BBC News		0
10	Greek (el) BBC News		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information