Surfing

Quality:

Surfing - sport that consists of riding a wave. This event is the 341^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 493^rd most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Surfing” in English Wikipedia has 92.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 127 references and 35 sections.

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:

English Wikipedia:

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The 1917^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 493^rd most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3245^th most popular in AI.

The 341^st most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “Surfing” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Surfing”, its content was written by 1571 registered users of English Wikipedia (1917^th place) and edited by 4339 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3245^th place).

Surfing is on the 493^rd place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 341^st place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 2978 times in English Wikipedia and cited 16338 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1152 in May 2007
• Global: #1356 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9648 in May 2008
• Global: #6086 in May 2008

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	English (en) Surfing		92.1224
2	German (de) Wellenreiten		88.287
3	Italian (it) Surf		73.8075
4	Hindi (hi) लहरबाज़ी		72.305
5	Chinese (zh) 衝浪		58.7311
6	French (fr) Surf		52.6812
7	Spanish (es) Surf		50.8242
8	Norwegian (no) Surfing		50.3072
9	Croatian (hr) Surfanje		42.6186
10	Turkish (tr) Sörf		38.3575

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Surfing		7 285 195
2	Spanish (es) Surf		2 643 900
3	Portuguese (pt) Surfe		1 543 968
4	German (de) Wellenreiten		1 424 840
5	French (fr) Surf		1 227 050
6	Japanese (ja) サーフィン		1 120 075
7	Russian (ru) Сёрфинг		829 494
8	Italian (it) Surf		691 963
9	Dutch (nl) Surfen		331 100
10	Polish (pl) Surfing		314 634

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) Surfing		19 263
2	Spanish (es) Surf		2 354
3	Russian (ru) Сёрфинг		2 274
4	Japanese (ja) サーフィン		2 200
5	German (de) Wellenreiten		2 079
6	French (fr) Surf		1 887
7	Portuguese (pt) Surfe		1 760
8	Italian (it) Surf		1 392
9	Chinese (zh) 衝浪		1 012
10	Simple English (simple) Surfing		805

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Surfing		1 571
2	German (de) Wellenreiten		390
3	Spanish (es) Surf		312
4	French (fr) Surf		311
5	Italian (it) Surf		212
6	Portuguese (pt) Surfe		181
7	Russian (ru) Сёрфинг		138
8	Japanese (ja) サーフィン		129
9	Dutch (nl) Surfen		127
10	Hebrew (he) גלישת גלים		123

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) Surfing		6
2	Hungarian (hu) Hullámlovaglás		2
3	Japanese (ja) サーフィン		2
4	German (de) Wellenreiten		1
5	Italian (it) Surf		1
6	Russian (ru) Сёрфинг		1
7	Turkish (tr) Sörf		1
8	Arabic (ar) ركمجة		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Sörfinq		0
10	Belarusian (be) Сёрфінг		0

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

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