George Best

Quality:

George Best - Northern Irish association football player (1946–2005). This person is the 2213^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 866^th most popular person in Italian Wikipedia. Article “George Best” in Italian Wikipedia has 57.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 75 references and 18 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 1876^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia.

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The 3212^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

The 866^th most popular in people in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7758^th most popular in all topics.

The 6479^th most popular in AI.

The 2213^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 7234^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “George Best” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “George Best”, its content was written by 244 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (3212^th place) and edited by 3133 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6479^th place).

George Best is on the 866^th place in local ranking of people in Italian Wikipedia and on the 2213^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 281 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 9526 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #112 in November 2005
• Global: #37 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #120 in November 2020
• Global: #1247 in July 2017

There are 49 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	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		99.5552
2	English (en) George Best		96.4993
3	Spanish (es) George Best		87.6348
4	Hungarian (hu) George Best		87.1429
5	Armenian (hy) Ջորջ Բեսթ		74.0933
6	Portuguese (pt) George Best		66.8708
7	Italian (it) George Best		57.9213
8	Greek (el) Τζορτζ Μπεστ		54.6857
9	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		45.3791
10	Georgian (ka) ჯორჯ ბესტი		45.0381

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) George Best		15 638 448
2	Italian (it) George Best		3 407 886
3	Spanish (es) George Best		2 069 046
4	French (fr) George Best		1 586 839
5	German (de) George Best		1 479 099
6	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		1 312 203
7	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		842 390
8	Portuguese (pt) George Best		704 628
9	Polish (pl) George Best		674 655
10	Dutch (nl) George Best		477 308

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) George Best		56 619
2	Spanish (es) George Best		9 813
3	Italian (it) George Best		6 667
4	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		4 894
5	French (fr) George Best		4 491
6	German (de) George Best		3 404
7	Portuguese (pt) George Best		3 401
8	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		2 371
9	Dutch (nl) George Best		1 799
10	Arabic (ar) جورج بست		1 607

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) George Best		1 043
2	Italian (it) George Best		244
3	French (fr) George Best		171
4	German (de) George Best		164
5	Spanish (es) George Best		115
6	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		103
7	Dutch (nl) George Best		90
8	Hebrew (he) ג'ורג' בסט		72
9	Norwegian (no) George Best		71
10	Polish (pl) George Best		69

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) George Best		5
2	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		2
3	Indonesian (id) George Best		1
4	Italian (it) George Best		1
5	Turkish (tr) George Best		1
6	Chinese (zh) 佐治·貝斯		1
7	Arabic (ar) جورج بست		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Corc Best		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Джордж Бест		0
10	Catalan (ca) George Best		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information