World Baseball Classic

Quality:

World Baseball Classic - international baseball tournament. This event is the 282^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 441^st most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article "World Baseball Classic" in English Wikipedia has 85 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 97 references and 25 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 441^st most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 282^nd most popular in events.

In July 2024 the article "World Baseball Classic" was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "World Baseball Classic", its content was written by 467 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1296 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

World Baseball Classic is on the 441^st place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 282^nd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1678 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7137 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): #35 in March 2023
• Global: #13 in March 2023

There are 25 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 August 1, 2024 (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) World Baseball Classic		84.9543
2	Malay (ms) Klasik Besbol Dunia		59.0579
3	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		55.5231
4	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		53.4601
5	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		40.8774
6	German (de) World Baseball Classic		38.3964
7	Polish (pl) World Baseball Classic		31.2919
8	Swedish (sv) World Baseball Classic		29.9432
9	Greek (el) Παγκόσμιο Κλασικό του Μπέιζμπολ		24.912
10	Arabic (ar) عالم البيسبول الكلاسيكي		18.99

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		8 492 330
2	English (en) World Baseball Classic		6 332 617
3	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		2 137 148
4	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		1 674 064
5	Korean (ko) 월드 베이스볼 클래식		258 433
6	Italian (it) World Baseball Classic		102 416
7	Portuguese (pt) Clássico Mundial de Beisebol		89 252
8	French (fr) Classique mondiale de baseball		70 727
9	German (de) World Baseball Classic		70 160
10	Dutch (nl) World Baseball Classic		27 860

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		35 778
2	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		19 207
3	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		10 251
4	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		8 591
5	Korean (ko) 월드 베이스볼 클래식		664
6	Portuguese (pt) Clássico Mundial de Beisebol		551
7	Italian (it) World Baseball Classic		546
8	French (fr) Classique mondiale de baseball		477
9	Russian (ru) Мировая классика бейсбола		423
10	German (de) World Baseball Classic		415

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		467
2	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		273
3	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		119
4	Spanish (es) Clásico Mundial de Béisbol		89
5	Korean (ko) 월드 베이스볼 클래식		75
6	Italian (it) World Baseball Classic		59
7	French (fr) Classique mondiale de baseball		42
8	German (de) World Baseball Classic		40
9	Dutch (nl) World Baseball Classic		22
10	Portuguese (pt) Clássico Mundial de Beisebol		17

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		6
2	Japanese (ja) ワールド・ベースボール・クラシック		4
3	Hebrew (he) אליפות העולם בבייסבול		1
4	Dutch (nl) World Baseball Classic		1
5	Slovenian (sl) Svetovna bejzbolska klasika		1
6	Chinese (zh) 世界棒球經典賽		1
7	Arabic (ar) عالم البيسبول الكلاسيكي		0
8	Czech (cs) World Baseball Classic		0
9	Danish (da) World Baseball Classic		0
10	German (de) World Baseball Classic		0

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

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