Handball

Quality:

Handball - team sport played with a thrown ball and goals. This event is the 37^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 27^th most popular event in French Wikipedia. Article "Handball" in French Wikipedia has 62.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 35 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 989^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

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The 1231^st most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 27^th most popular in events in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1642^nd most popular in all topics.

The 1648^th most popular in AI.

The 37^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 3376^th most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2401^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Handball" was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 23 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Handball", its content was written by 451 registered users of French Wikipedia (1231^st place) and edited by 5243 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1648^th place).

Handball is on the 27^th place in local ranking of events in French Wikipedia and on the 37^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 9004 times in French Wikipedia (1208^th place) and cited 93411 times in all languages (1433^rd 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): #25 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 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	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		89.1992
2	Chinese (zh) 手球		74.517
3	English (en) Handball		73.3063
4	German (de) Handball		68.5405
5	French (fr) Handball		62.6873
6	Catalan (ca) Handbol		61.8811
7	Dutch (nl) Handbal		56.6848
8	Spanish (es) Balonmano		50.8731
9	Finnish (fi) Käsipallo		47.4816
10	Russian (ru) Гандбол		46.8149

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Balonmano		14 842 803
2	English (en) Handball		11 792 330
3	Portuguese (pt) Andebol		6 945 203
4	French (fr) Handball		5 578 802
5	Arabic (ar) كرة اليد		4 458 136
6	German (de) Handball		4 441 390
7	Polish (pl) Piłka ręczna		2 724 412
8	Russian (ru) Гандбол		2 603 877
9	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		1 997 683
10	Italian (it) Pallamano		1 443 172

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		162 775
2	Spanish (es) Balonmano		19 920
3	French (fr) Handball		16 537
4	German (de) Handball		11 137
5	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		9 064
6	Russian (ru) Гандбол		8 218
7	Chinese (zh) 手球		7 631
8	Hungarian (hu) Kézilabda		7 143
9	Finnish (fi) Käsipallo		5 972
10	Italian (it) Pallamano		5 955

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Handball		880
2	German (de) Handball		488
3	French (fr) Handball		451
4	Spanish (es) Balonmano		389
5	Italian (it) Pallamano		289
6	Portuguese (pt) Andebol		214
7	Polish (pl) Piłka ręczna		195
8	Dutch (nl) Handbal		182
9	Norwegian (no) Håndball		167
10	Swedish (sv) Handboll		145

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) Handball		7
2	German (de) Handball		3
3	Spanish (es) Balonmano		2
4	Hebrew (he) כדוריד		2
5	Korean (ko) 핸드볼		2
6	Esperanto (eo) Manpilkado		1
7	Persian (fa) هندبال		1
8	French (fr) Handball		1
9	Indonesian (id) Bola tangan		1
10	Russian (ru) Гандбол		1

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

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