Handball

Quality:

Handball - team sport played with a thrown ball and goals. This event is the 45^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 31^st most popular event in French Wikipedia. Article “Handball” in French Wikipedia has 63.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 24 sections.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 1051^st most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 1283^rd most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 31^st most popular in events in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1685^th most popular in all topics.

The 1687^th most popular in AI.

The 45^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 8106^th most editable in French Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Handball” was edited by 3 authors in French Wikipedia (8106^th place) and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Handball”, its content was written by 461 registered users of French Wikipedia (1283^rd place) and edited by 5335 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1687^th place).

Handball is on the 31^st place in local ranking of events in French Wikipedia and on the 45^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 9197 times in French Wikipedia (1217^th place) and cited 97236 times in all languages (1404^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #90 in August 2002
• Global: #241 in November 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #24 in January 2017
• Global: #201 in August 2016

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	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		88.2618
2	Chinese (zh) 手球		74.1783
3	English (en) Handball		73.1873
4	German (de) Handball		68.1759
5	French (fr) Handball		63.1346
6	Catalan (ca) Handbol		61.837
7	Dutch (nl) Handbal		56.4707
8	Spanish (es) Balonmano		50.6398
9	Finnish (fi) Käsipallo		47.4123
10	Russian (ru) Гандбол		46.7825

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Balonmano		15 043 581
2	English (en) Handball		12 306 069
3	Portuguese (pt) Andebol		6 998 672
4	French (fr) Handball		5 708 134
5	Arabic (ar) كرة اليد		4 609 732
6	German (de) Handball		4 531 651
7	Polish (pl) Piłka ręczna		2 750 249
8	Russian (ru) Гандбол		2 748 525
9	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		2 042 162
10	Italian (it) Pallamano		1 497 423

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) Handball		28 960
2	Spanish (es) Balonmano		23 120
3	Russian (ru) Гандбол		5 697
4	French (fr) Handball		5 366
5	German (de) Handball		5 025
6	Portuguese (pt) Andebol		3 827
7	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		3 171
8	Chinese (zh) 手球		2 351
9	Italian (it) Pallamano		2 345
10	Arabic (ar) كرة اليد		2 287

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Handball		888
2	German (de) Handball		494
3	French (fr) Handball		461
4	Spanish (es) Balonmano		396
5	Italian (it) Pallamano		296
6	Portuguese (pt) Andebol		217
7	Polish (pl) Piłka ręczna		196
8	Dutch (nl) Handbal		182
9	Norwegian (no) Håndball		170
10	Swedish (sv) Handboll		146

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	Spanish (es) Balonmano		4
2	French (fr) Handball		3
3	German (de) Handball		2
4	Romanian (ro) Handbal		2
5	Catalan (ca) Handbol		1
6	Czech (cs) Házená		1
7	Esperanto (eo) Manpilkado		1
8	Russian (ru) Гандбол		1
9	Swedish (sv) Handboll		1
10	Chinese (zh) 手球		1

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

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