Official (basketball)

Basketball official - official who enforces the rules and maintains order in a basketball game. Article “Official (basketball)” in English Wikipedia has 31.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.64 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.

In June 2025 the article “Official (basketball)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Official (basketball)”, its content was written by 113 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 355 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1240 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1867 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22429 in November 2024
• Global: #48430 in September 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #92712 in November 2011
• Global: #125716 in November 2013

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) Official (basketball)		31.1803
2	Turkish (tr) Hakem (basketbol)		30.6014
3	Polish (pl) Sędzia koszykarski		22.8849
4	Swedish (sv) Basketdomare		21.7818
5	Persian (fa) داور (بسکتبال)		21.7168
6	German (de) Basketballschiedsrichter		19.4886
7	Italian (it) Arbitro (pallacanestro)		18.8912
8	French (fr) Arbitre (basket-ball)		13.9253
9	Ukrainian (uk) Суддя (баскетбол)		13.6592
10	Japanese (ja) 審判員 (バスケットボール)		10.6687

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Official (basketball)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Official (basketball)		939 442
2	Japanese (ja) 審判員 (バスケットボール)		125 967
3	Turkish (tr) Hakem (basketbol)		87 587
4	French (fr) Arbitre (basket-ball)		86 831
5	Italian (it) Arbitro (pallacanestro)		75 517
6	Polish (pl) Sędzia koszykarski		45 111
7	Ukrainian (uk) Суддя (баскетбол)		29 373
8	German (de) Basketballschiedsrichter		19 173
9	Dutch (nl) Basketbalscheidsrechter		9 901
10	Korean (ko) 심판 (농구)		7 460

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Official (basketball)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Official (basketball)		1 964
2	French (fr) Arbitre (basket-ball)		175
3	Japanese (ja) 審判員 (バスケットボール)		160
4	Italian (it) Arbitro (pallacanestro)		125
5	German (de) Basketballschiedsrichter		123
6	Turkish (tr) Hakem (basketbol)		76
7	Korean (ko) 심판 (농구)		61
8	Polish (pl) Sędzia koszykarski		46
9	Ukrainian (uk) Суддя (баскетбол)		34
10	Persian (fa) داور (بسکتبال)		31

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

Language versions of the article "Official (basketball)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Official (basketball)		113
2	German (de) Basketballschiedsrichter		79
3	Italian (it) Arbitro (pallacanestro)		51
4	French (fr) Arbitre (basket-ball)		43
5	Turkish (tr) Hakem (basketbol)		18
6	Japanese (ja) 審判員 (バスケットボール)		16
7	Swedish (sv) Basketdomare		12
8	Polish (pl) Sędzia koszykarski		8
9	Dutch (nl) Basketbalscheidsrechter		7
10	Persian (fa) داور (بسکتبال)		3

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

Language versions of the article "Official (basketball)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Official (basketball)		1
2	Korean (ko) 심판 (농구)		1
3	German (de) Basketballschiedsrichter		0
4	Persian (fa) داور (بسکتبال)		0
5	French (fr) Arbitre (basket-ball)		0
6	Italian (it) Arbitro (pallacanestro)		0
7	Japanese (ja) 審判員 (バスケットボール)		0
8	Dutch (nl) Basketbalscheidsrechter		0
9	Polish (pl) Sędzia koszykarski		0
10	Swedish (sv) Basketdomare		0

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

Language versions of the article "Official (basketball)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Official (basketball)		1 240
2	French (fr) Arbitre (basket-ball)		174
3	Polish (pl) Sędzia koszykarski		129
4	Italian (it) Arbitro (pallacanestro)		127
5	German (de) Basketballschiedsrichter		114
6	Japanese (ja) 審判員 (バスケットボール)		25
7	Korean (ko) 심판 (농구)		17
8	Turkish (tr) Hakem (basketbol)		15
9	Ukrainian (uk) Суддя (баскетбол)		12
10	Persian (fa) داور (بسکتبال)		11

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#	Language	Value
de	German Basketballschiedsrichter
en	English Official (basketball)
fa	Persian داور (بسکتبال)
fr	French Arbitre (basket-ball)
it	Italian Arbitro (pallacanestro)
ja	Japanese 審判員 (バスケットボール)
ko	Korean 심판 (농구)
nl	Dutch Basketbalscheidsrechter
pl	Polish Sędzia koszykarski
sv	Swedish Basketdomare
tr	Turkish Hakem (basketbol)
uk	Ukrainian Суддя (баскетбол)

Best Rank

English: #92712 11.2011

Global: #125716 11.2013

Best Rank

English: #22429 11.2024

Global: #48430 09.2011

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