Reference

Quality:

Reference - relationship between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object. Article “Reference” in English Wikipedia has 29.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.57 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Reference” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Reference”, its content was written by 383 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 673 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 550 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1546 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6784 in April 2002
• Global: #7614 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7039 in December 2008
• Global: #14000 in December 2008

There are 23 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	Swedish (sv) Referens		37.58
2	Estonian (et) Osutamine		35.1201
3	English (en) Reference		29.748
4	Romanian (ro) Referință		23.3912
5	Malay (ms) Rujukan		21.1329
6	Kazakh (kk) Референт		20.3031
7	Persian (fa) مرجع		16.5388
8	Catalan (ca) Referència		16.2347
9	Italian (it) Reference		13.7216
10	Turkish (tr) Referans		12.7444

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Reference		4 677 782
2	Spanish (es) Referencia		1 369 861
3	Russian (ru) Референс		688 508
4	Indonesian (id) Rujukan		331 174
5	Arabic (ar) مرجع		300 554
6	Swedish (sv) Referens		233 028
7	Thai (th) การอ้างอิง		178 083
8	Italian (it) Reference		89 026
9	Malay (ms) Rujukan		78 600
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tham khảo		49 179

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) Reference		3 315
2	Russian (ru) Референс		1 147
3	Indonesian (id) Rujukan		271
4	Chinese (zh) 參考		187
5	Spanish (es) Referencia		173
6	Turkish (tr) Referans		145
7	Persian (fa) مرجع		96
8	Italian (it) Reference		93
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tham khảo		91
10	Swedish (sv) Referens		89

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Reference		383
2	Spanish (es) Referencia		54
3	Arabic (ar) مرجع		32
4	Vietnamese (vi) Tham khảo		31
5	Swedish (sv) Referens		30
6	Italian (it) Reference		28
7	Indonesian (id) Rujukan		22
8	Thai (th) การอ้างอิง		13
9	Danish (da) Reference		11
10	Russian (ru) Референс		9

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	Indonesian (id) Rujukan		2
2	Arabic (ar) مرجع		1
3	English (en) Reference		1
4	Persian (fa) مرجع		1
5	Romanian (ro) Referință		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) İstinad mənbəyi		0
7	Catalan (ca) Referència		0
8	Danish (da) Reference		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Referenco		0
10	Spanish (es) Referencia		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.

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information