Melbourne Cup

Quality:

Melbourne Cup - Australian horse race held at Flemington, Melbourne each year. This event is the 1854^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Melbourne Cup” in English Wikipedia has 88.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 160 references and 27 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.67 points.

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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 1854^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “Melbourne Cup” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Melbourne Cup”, its content was written by 482 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 679 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Melbourne Cup is on the 1854^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 1351 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2094 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #996 in November 2015
• Global: #1417 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3516 in November 2015
• Global: #10304 in November 2015

There are 12 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	English (en) Melbourne Cup		88.786
2	Chinese (zh) 墨爾本盃		48.12
3	German (de) Melbourne Cup		43.3918
4	Swedish (sv) Melbourne Cup		32.8649
5	French (fr) Melbourne Cup		28.072
6	Japanese (ja) メルボルンカップ		22.9397
7	Vietnamese (vi) Melbourne Cup		22.7282
8	Simple English (simple) Melbourne Cup		20.6698
9	Dutch (nl) Melbourne Cup		17.0105
10	Russian (ru) Мельбурнский кубок		15.0207

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Melbourne Cup		3 385 450
2	Japanese (ja) メルボルンカップ		393 621
3	Chinese (zh) 墨爾本盃		107 775
4	German (de) Melbourne Cup		57 940
5	French (fr) Melbourne Cup		49 167
6	Russian (ru) Мельбурнский кубок		40 437
7	Dutch (nl) Melbourne Cup		18 496
8	Polish (pl) Melbourne Cup		16 724
9	Simple English (simple) Melbourne Cup		15 733
10	Vietnamese (vi) Melbourne Cup		7 104

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) Melbourne Cup		5 194
2	Japanese (ja) メルボルンカップ		1 753
3	Chinese (zh) 墨爾本盃		560
4	German (de) Melbourne Cup		228
5	Simple English (simple) Melbourne Cup		223
6	Russian (ru) Мельбурнский кубок		157
7	French (fr) Melbourne Cup		126
8	Korean (ko) 멜버른 컵		62
9	Dutch (nl) Melbourne Cup		33
10	Polish (pl) Melbourne Cup		19

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Melbourne Cup		482
2	Japanese (ja) メルボルンカップ		54
3	German (de) Melbourne Cup		34
4	Dutch (nl) Melbourne Cup		24
5	Chinese (zh) 墨爾本盃		22
6	French (fr) Melbourne Cup		20
7	Simple English (simple) Melbourne Cup		16
8	Polish (pl) Melbourne Cup		10
9	Russian (ru) Мельбурнский кубок		6
10	Vietnamese (vi) Melbourne Cup		6

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) Melbourne Cup		1
2	Japanese (ja) メルボルンカップ		1
3	German (de) Melbourne Cup		0
4	French (fr) Melbourne Cup		0
5	Korean (ko) 멜버른 컵		0
6	Dutch (nl) Melbourne Cup		0
7	Polish (pl) Melbourne Cup		0
8	Russian (ru) Мельбурнский кубок		0
9	Simple English (simple) Melbourne Cup		0
10	Swedish (sv) Melbourne Cup		0

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

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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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information