Fencing

Quality:

Fencing - type of armed combat sport. This event is the 198^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 311^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Fencing” in English Wikipedia has 62.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 27 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.3 points.

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 7748^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 311^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9231^st most popular in all topics.

The 3986^th most popular in AI.

The 198^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “Fencing”, its content was written by 952 registered users of English Wikipedia (7748^th place) and edited by 3988 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3986^th place).

Fencing is on the 311^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 198^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 8278 times in English Wikipedia (2528^th place) and cited 56632 times in all languages (2942^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #103 in September 2003
• Global: #247 in August 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1426 in August 2016
• Global: #330 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, 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Fekting		68.3565
2	French (fr) Escrime		66.6892
3	Finnish (fi) Miekkailu		65.4286
4	German (de) Fechten		62.7809
5	English (en) Fencing		62.6792
6	Romanian (ro) Scrimă		58.1922
7	Hebrew (he) סיף		58.034
8	Malay (ms) Lawan pedang		54.5247
9	Polish (pl) Szermierka		54.0799
10	Chinese (zh) 击剑		52.4985

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fencing		10 365 019
2	Spanish (es) Esgrima		3 237 301
3	Japanese (ja) フェンシング		2 413 050
4	French (fr) Escrime		1 904 581
5	Portuguese (pt) Esgrima		1 761 111
6	German (de) Fechten		1 756 887
7	Russian (ru) Фехтование		1 405 455
8	Polish (pl) Szermierka		1 029 830
9	Chinese (zh) 击剑		686 166
10	Italian (it) Scherma (sport)		654 214

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		19 653
2	Spanish (es) Esgrima		2 913
3	Russian (ru) Фехтование		2 856
4	Japanese (ja) フェンシング		2 845
5	French (fr) Escrime		2 827
6	German (de) Fechten		2 641
7	Chinese (zh) 击剑		1 612
8	Polish (pl) Szermierka		1 357
9	Turkish (tr) Eskrim		1 157
10	Persian (fa) شمشیربازی		992

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fencing		952
2	French (fr) Escrime		355
3	German (de) Fechten		322
4	Spanish (es) Esgrima		219
5	Italian (it) Scherma (sport)		169
6	Dutch (nl) Schermen		160
7	Japanese (ja) フェンシング		136
8	Russian (ru) Фехтование		134
9	Hebrew (he) סיף		133
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	Basque (eu) Eskrima		2
2	French (fr) Escrime		2
3	Catalan (ca) Esgrima		1
4	Spanish (es) Esgrima		1
5	Japanese (ja) フェンシング		1
6	Serbian (sr) Мачевање		1
7	Uzbek (uz) Qilichbozlik		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.

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.

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