Fencing

Quality:

Fencing - type of armed combat sport. This event is the 190^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 291^st most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Fencing” in English Wikipedia has 66.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 23 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7334^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 291^st most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8945^th most popular in all topics.

The 3869^th most popular in AI.

The 190^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “Fencing” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Fencing”, its content was written by 948 registered users of English Wikipedia (7334^th place) and edited by 3993 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3869^th place).

Fencing is on the 291^st place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 190^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 8015 times in English Wikipedia (2533^rd place) and cited 54226 times in all languages (2970^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #101 in September 2003
• Global: #245 in August 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1414 in August 2016
• Global: #325 in August 2016

There are 53 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Fekting		68.3565
2	French (fr) Escrime		66.5085
3	English (en) Fencing		66.0994
4	Finnish (fi) Miekkailu		65.4595
5	German (de) Fechten		64.3504
6	Hebrew (he) סיף		58.77
7	Romanian (ro) Scrimă		58.2892
8	Polish (pl) Szermierka		58.2095
9	Malay (ms) Lawan pedang		53.2876
10	Chinese (zh) 击剑		52.495

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fencing		10 121 827
2	Spanish (es) Esgrima		3 178 181
3	Japanese (ja) フェンシング		2 367 724
4	French (fr) Escrime		1 865 463
5	Portuguese (pt) Esgrima		1 746 402
6	German (de) Fechten		1 718 813
7	Russian (ru) Фехтование		1 240 165
8	Polish (pl) Szermierka		1 010 116
9	Chinese (zh) 击剑		655 570
10	Italian (it) Scherma (sport)		640 266

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) Fencing		30 691
2	Spanish (es) Esgrima		5 722
3	French (fr) Escrime		4 112
4	Russian (ru) Фехтование		3 488
5	Japanese (ja) フェンシング		3 286
6	German (de) Fechten		2 713
7	Chinese (zh) 击剑		2 645
8	Italian (it) Scherma (sport)		1 615
9	Polish (pl) Szermierka		1 592
10	Indonesian (id) Anggar		1 440

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fencing		948
2	French (fr) Escrime		349
3	German (de) Fechten		321
4	Spanish (es) Esgrima		216
5	Italian (it) Scherma (sport)		166
6	Dutch (nl) Schermen		158
7	Japanese (ja) フェンシング		134
8	Russian (ru) Фехтование		133
9	Hebrew (he) סיף		131
10	Portuguese (pt) Esgrima		121

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	German (de) Fechten		2
2	English (en) Fencing		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Skermo		1
4	French (fr) Escrime		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Vívás		1
6	Japanese (ja) フェンシング		1
7	Russian (ru) Фехтование		1
8	Arabic (ar) مبارزة السلاح		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Qılıncoynatma		0
10	Belarusian (be) Фехтаванне		0

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

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