Michael Phelps

Quality:

Michael Phelps - American swimmer (born 1985). This person is the 419^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 384^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Michael Phelps” in English Wikipedia has 94.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 392 references and 34 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 741^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2841^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 384^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1220^th most popular in all topics.

The 2279^th most popular in AI.

The 419^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8130^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6809^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Michael Phelps” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Michael Phelps”, its content was written by 1382 registered users of English Wikipedia (2841^st place) and edited by 4839 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2279^th place).

Michael Phelps is on the 384^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 419^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 1706 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9355 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11 in August 2008
• Global: #2 in August 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1 in August 2016
• Global: #2 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	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		98.6646
2	English (en) Michael Phelps		94.8951
3	Ukrainian (uk) Майкл Фелпс		92.2222
4	Greek (el) Μάικλ Φελπς		75.515
5	French (fr) Michael Phelps		74.3939
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Michael Phelps		69.0186
7	Hungarian (hu) Michael Phelps		63.7153
8	Latin (la) Michael Fred Phelps		61.8844
9	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		58.2942
10	Persian (fa) مایکل فلپس		58.1259

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Michael Phelps		49 904 002
2	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		6 985 219
3	French (fr) Michael Phelps		3 818 167
4	Russian (ru) Фелпс, Майкл		3 458 570
5	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		3 086 206
6	German (de) Michael Phelps		2 844 635
7	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		2 407 727
8	Japanese (ja) マイケル・フェルプス		2 066 370
9	Polish (pl) Michael Phelps		1 451 679
10	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·菲尔普斯		1 448 892

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) Michael Phelps		76 993
2	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		12 100
3	Russian (ru) Фелпс, Майкл		9 224
4	German (de) Michael Phelps		6 566
5	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		5 940
6	French (fr) Michael Phelps		5 883
7	Japanese (ja) マイケル・フェルプス		3 661
8	Polish (pl) Michael Phelps		3 218
9	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		3 048
10	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·菲尔普斯		2 676

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Michael Phelps		1 382
2	French (fr) Michael Phelps		309
3	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		304
4	German (de) Michael Phelps		272
5	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		270
6	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		160
7	Russian (ru) Фелпс, Майкл		159
8	Hebrew (he) מייקל פלפס		155
9	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·菲尔普斯		144
10	Dutch (nl) Michael Phelps		128

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) Michael Phelps		4
2	Polish (pl) Michael Phelps		4
3	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		3
4	Greek (el) Μάικλ Φελπς		2
5	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		2
6	Hungarian (hu) Michael Phelps		1
7	Korean (ko) 마이클 펠프스		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		1
9	Simple English (simple) Michael Phelps		1
10	Swedish (sv) Michael Phelps		1

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