World Baseball Classic

Quality:

World Baseball Classic - international baseball tournament. This event is the 253^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 426^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “World Baseball Classic” in English Wikipedia has 86.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 126 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.54 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 426^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 253^rd most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “World Baseball Classic” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “World Baseball Classic”, its content was written by 552 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1507 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

World Baseball Classic is on the 426^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 253^rd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 2198 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8450 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #33 in March 2023
• Global: #26 in March 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #36 in March 2023
• Global: #13 in March 2023

There are 27 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	Min Nan (zhminnan) Sè-kài Iá-kiû Keng-tián-sài		88.086
2	English (en) World Baseball Classic		86.1719
3	Malay (ms) World Baseball Classic		72.1278
4	Vietnamese (vi) World Baseball Classic		68.7079
5	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		62.6786
6	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		52.6309
7	German (de) World Baseball Classic		37.3014
8	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		37.0479
9	Polish (pl) World Baseball Classic		31.5053
10	Swedish (sv) World Baseball Classic		29.5038

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		9 979 502
2	English (en) World Baseball Classic		8 563 829
3	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		2 975 806
4	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		2 747 503
5	Korean (ko) 월드 베이스볼 클래식		314 176
6	Italian (it) World Baseball Classic		161 597
7	Portuguese (pt) Clássico Mundial de Beisebol		110 166
8	French (fr) Classique mondiale de baseball		88 619
9	German (de) World Baseball Classic		84 060
10	Russian (ru) Мировая классика бейсбола		34 280

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) World Baseball Classic		31 883
2	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		22 656
3	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		7 406
4	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		6 663
5	Korean (ko) 월드 베이스볼 클래식		770
6	French (fr) Classique mondiale de baseball		683
7	Italian (it) World Baseball Classic		680
8	Portuguese (pt) Clássico Mundial de Beisebol		617
9	German (de) World Baseball Classic		496
10	Russian (ru) Мировая классика бейсбола		392

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) World Baseball Classic		552
2	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		305
3	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		142
4	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		102
5	Korean (ko) 월드 베이스볼 클래식		75
6	Italian (it) World Baseball Classic		69
7	French (fr) Classique mondiale de baseball		50
8	German (de) World Baseball Classic		45
9	Dutch (nl) World Baseball Classic		25
10	Portuguese (pt) Clássico Mundial de Beisebol		20

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) World Baseball Classic		5
2	Arabic (ar) عالم البيسبول الكلاسيكي		1
3	Swedish (sv) World Baseball Classic		1
4	Thai (th) เวิลด์เบสบอลคลาสสิก		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) World Baseball Classic		1
6	Czech (cs) World Baseball Classic		0
7	Danish (da) World Baseball Classic		0
8	German (de) World Baseball Classic		0
9	Greek (el) Παγκόσμιο Κλασικό του Μπέιζμπολ		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Monda Basbalo Klasika		0

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

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