Rugby union

Quality:

Rugby union - team sport, code of rugby football. Article “Rugby union” in English Wikipedia has 95.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 316 references and 41 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 1994^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6202^nd most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Rugby union” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rugby union”, its content was written by 1553 registered users of English Wikipedia (1994^th place) and edited by 3202 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6202^nd place).

The article is cited 33763 times in English Wikipedia (383^rd place) and cited 93214 times in all languages (1506^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #406 in October 2007
• Global: #647 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1980 in October 2011
• Global: #1312 in October 2015

There are 40 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	Russian (ru) Регби		100
2	German (de) Rugby Union		100
3	Vietnamese (vi) Bóng bầu dục liên hiệp		100
4	Portuguese (pt) Rugby union		96.491
5	English (en) Rugby union		95.6085
6	Japanese (ja) ラグビーユニオン		94.217
7	French (fr) Rugby à XV		73.4123
8	Catalan (ca) Rugbi a 15		71.7144
9	Chinese (zh) 橄欖球		56.0298
10	Norwegian (no) Rugby union		52.4194

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rugby union		13 188 540
2	French (fr) Rugby à XV		2 728 244
3	Russian (ru) Регби		2 425 214
4	Italian (it) Rugby a 15		1 290 162
5	Chinese (zh) 橄欖球		946 892
6	Japanese (ja) ラグビーユニオン		863 983
7	German (de) Rugby Union		849 251
8	Polish (pl) Rugby union		473 812
9	Dutch (nl) Rugby union		438 275
10	Czech (cs) Rugby union		210 610

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) Rugby union		43 767
2	French (fr) Rugby à XV		7 028
3	Russian (ru) Регби		6 309
4	Japanese (ja) ラグビーユニオン		4 370
5	Chinese (zh) 橄欖球		3 963
6	German (de) Rugby Union		2 421
7	Italian (it) Rugby a 15		1 517
8	Spanish (es) Rugby union		1 013
9	Polish (pl) Rugby union		769
10	Simple English (simple) Rugby union		664

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rugby union		1 553
2	French (fr) Rugby à XV		363
3	Italian (it) Rugby a 15		175
4	Russian (ru) Регби		173
5	Dutch (nl) Rugby union		115
6	German (de) Rugby Union		107
7	Japanese (ja) ラグビーユニオン		82
8	Polish (pl) Rugby union		82
9	Czech (cs) Rugby union		60
10	Chinese (zh) 橄欖球		51

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	French (fr) Rugby à XV		8
2	English (en) Rugby union		5
3	Russian (ru) Регби		4
4	Catalan (ca) Rugbi a 15		1
5	Spanish (es) Rugby union		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Регбі-15		1
7	Arabic (ar) اتحاد الرغبي		0
8	Belarusian (be) Рэгбі-15		0
9	Czech (cs) Rugby union		0
10	Danish (da) Rugby union		0

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

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