The Ashes

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The Ashes - Test cricket series played between Australia and England, the oldest known cricket league. This event is the 569^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 228^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “The Ashes” in English Wikipedia has 85.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 106 references and 26 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 9508^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 228^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 569^th most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “The Ashes” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “The Ashes”, its content was written by 868 registered users of English Wikipedia (9508^th place) and edited by 1153 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Ashes is on the 228^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 569^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1000 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1704 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #109 in August 2019
• Global: #709 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #98 in July 2023
• Global: #296 in July 2023

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	English (en) The Ashes		85.2229
2	Portuguese (pt) The Ashes		81.5773
3	Tamil (ta) ஆஷஸ்		36.9713
4	French (fr) The Ashes		31.5321
5	Polish (pl) The Ashes		26.2777
6	German (de) The Ashes		24.427
7	Russian (ru) Эшес		24.3596
8	Simple English (simple) The Ashes		21.0832
9	Estonian (et) The Ashes		20.3464
10	Swedish (sv) The Ashes		19.2146

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Ashes		12 769 089
2	French (fr) The Ashes		66 674
3	Dutch (nl) The Ashes		39 538
4	German (de) The Ashes		37 288
5	Hindi (hi) द एशेज		35 168
6	Polish (pl) The Ashes		24 260
7	Japanese (ja) ジ・アッシズ		23 622
8	Italian (it) The Ashes		23 543
9	Tamil (ta) ஆஷஸ்		15 542
10	Swedish (sv) The Ashes		15 235

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) The Ashes		25 945
2	German (de) The Ashes		134
3	Chinese (zh) 灰烬杯		118
4	French (fr) The Ashes		88
5	Dutch (nl) The Ashes		65
6	Japanese (ja) ジ・アッシズ		56
7	Spanish (es) The Ashes		49
8	Simple English (simple) The Ashes		40
9	Italian (it) The Ashes		39
10	Swedish (sv) The Ashes		34

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Ashes		868
2	French (fr) The Ashes		59
3	German (de) The Ashes		49
4	Dutch (nl) The Ashes		39
5	Italian (it) The Ashes		25
6	Polish (pl) The Ashes		16
7	Urdu (ur) ایشیز سیریز		14
8	Simple English (simple) The Ashes		13
9	Chinese (zh) 灰烬杯		11
10	Swedish (sv) The Ashes		10

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) The Ashes		3
2	Finnish (fi) The Ashes		2
3	German (de) The Ashes		0
4	Spanish (es) The Ashes		0
5	Estonian (et) The Ashes		0
6	French (fr) The Ashes		0
7	Hindi (hi) द एशेज		0
8	Indonesian (id) The Ashes		0
9	Italian (it) The Ashes		0
10	Japanese (ja) ジ・アッシズ		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