Surf

Quality:

Surfing - sport that consists of riding a wave. This event is the 345^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 298^th most popular event in French Wikipedia. Article “Surf” in French Wikipedia has 52.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 25 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.86 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 3948^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 298^th most popular in events in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3256^th most popular in AI.

The 345^th most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “Surf” was edited by 2 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Surf”, its content was written by 319 registered users of French Wikipedia (3948^th place) and edited by 4388 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3256^th place).

Surfing is on the 298^th place in local ranking of events in French Wikipedia and on the 345^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1787 times in French Wikipedia and cited 16875 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #126 in August 2020
• Global: #1358 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #3677 in July 2008
• Global: #6085 in May 2008

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, 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	English (en) Surfing		92.1472
2	German (de) Wellenreiten		86.3243
3	Italian (it) Surf		73.6838
4	Hindi (hi) लहरबाज़ी		72.2294
5	Chinese (zh) 衝浪		58.6612
6	French (fr) Surf		52.7004
7	Spanish (es) Surf		51.3013
8	Catalan (ca) Surf		51.1792
9	Norwegian (no) Surfing		50.2019
10	Croatian (hr) Surfanje		42.7058

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Surfing		7 472 992
2	Spanish (es) Surf		2 677 044
3	Portuguese (pt) Surfe		1 559 070
4	German (de) Wellenreiten		1 450 906
5	French (fr) Surf		1 272 584
6	Japanese (ja) サーフィン		1 144 600
7	Russian (ru) Сёрфинг		937 022
8	Italian (it) Surf		718 143
9	Dutch (nl) Surfen		331 813
10	Polish (pl) Surfing		326 823

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) Surfing		12 465
2	Russian (ru) Сёрфинг		2 707
3	Japanese (ja) サーフィン		1 786
4	French (fr) Surf		1 753
5	German (de) Wellenreiten		1 607
6	Spanish (es) Surf		1 321
7	Italian (it) Surf		994
8	Chinese (zh) 衝浪		759
9	Portuguese (pt) Surfe		726
10	Polish (pl) Surfing		432

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Surfing		1 590
2	German (de) Wellenreiten		395
3	French (fr) Surf		319
4	Spanish (es) Surf		315
5	Italian (it) Surf		214
6	Portuguese (pt) Surfe		181
7	Russian (ru) Сёрфинг		140
8	Dutch (nl) Surfen		131
9	Hebrew (he) גלישת גלים		130
10	Japanese (ja) サーフィン		130

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) Surfing		4
2	Spanish (es) Surf		4
3	Catalan (ca) Surf		2
4	French (fr) Surf		2
5	Hebrew (he) גלישת גלים		2
6	Azerbaijani (az) Sörfinq		1
7	Basque (eu) Surf		1
8	Korean (ko) 서핑		1
9	Russian (ru) Сёрфинг		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Lướt sóng		1

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

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