World Baseball Classic

Quality:

World Baseball Classic - international baseball tournament. This event is the 308^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 535^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. On English Wikipedia article about World Baseball Classic recently has been very popular. Article “World Baseball Classic” in English Wikipedia has 88.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 115 references and 34 sections.

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 535^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 308^th most popular in events.

In June 2025 the article “World Baseball Classic” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “World Baseball Classic”, its content was written by 483 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1351 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

World Baseball Classic is on the 535^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 308^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1876 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7536 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, 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	Min Nan (zhminnan) Sè-kài Iá-kiû Keng-tián-sài		88.5557
2	English (en) World Baseball Classic		88.2619
3	Malay (ms) World Baseball Classic		70.8113
4	Vietnamese (vi) World Baseball Classic		67.5615
5	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		59.5515
6	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		51.3259
7	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		40.6509
8	German (de) World Baseball Classic		38.0497
9	Polish (pl) World Baseball Classic		30.9963
10	Swedish (sv) World Baseball Classic		30.139

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		8 859 574
2	English (en) World Baseball Classic		6 708 307
3	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		2 391 690
4	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		2 252 959
5	Korean (ko) 월드 베이스볼 클래식		275 957
6	Italian (it) World Baseball Classic		106 690
7	Portuguese (pt) Clássico Mundial de Beisebol		96 849
8	French (fr) Classique mondiale de baseball		76 051
9	German (de) World Baseball Classic		74 703
10	Russian (ru) Мировая классика бейсбола		29 142

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		26 893
2	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		20 436
3	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		9 418
4	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		8 102
5	Korean (ko) 월드 베이스볼 클래식		540
6	Italian (it) World Baseball Classic		425
7	Portuguese (pt) Clássico Mundial de Beisebol		403
8	Russian (ru) Мировая классика бейсбола		307
9	German (de) World Baseball Classic		292
10	French (fr) Classique mondiale de baseball		267

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		483
2	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		282
3	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		132
4	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		90
5	Korean (ko) 월드 베이스볼 클래식		75
6	Italian (it) World Baseball Classic		61
7	French (fr) Classique mondiale de baseball		45
8	German (de) World Baseball Classic		43
9	Dutch (nl) World Baseball Classic		22
10	Portuguese (pt) Clássico Mundial de Beisebol		18

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		4
2	Arabic (ar) عالم البيسبول الكلاسيكي		2
3	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		2
4	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		1
5	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		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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