Half-Life 2

Quality:

Half-Life 2 - 2004 first-person shooter video game. This video game is the 72^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 157^th most popular video game in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Half-Life 2” in Italian Wikipedia has 34.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 24 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.81 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

The 157^th most popular in video games in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3257^th most popular in AI.

The 72^nd most popular in video games.

In June 2026 the article “Half-Life 2” was edited by 1 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Half-Life 2”, its content was written by 155 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 4388 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3257^th place).

Half-Life 2 is on the 157^th place in local ranking of video games in Italian Wikipedia and on the 72^nd place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 127 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 3877 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #1130 in January 2010
• Global: #254 in January 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #6592 in August 2009
• Global: #1159 in January 2008

There are 45 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	German (de) Half-Life 2		89.3333
2	Swedish (sv) Half-Life 2		86.6667
3	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		84.2801
4	Ukrainian (uk) Half-Life 2		83.1561
5	English (en) Half-Life 2		81.8341
6	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		81.6348
7	French (fr) Half-Life 2		78.36
8	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		72.3362
9	Malay (ms) Half-Life 2		51.7977
10	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		44.9941

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Half-Life 2		13 648 541
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		5 139 011
3	German (de) Half-Life 2		1 575 582
4	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		1 486 156
5	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		744 830
6	Japanese (ja) ハーフライフ2		632 531
7	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		611 049
8	French (fr) Half-Life 2		578 702
9	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		450 310
10	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		351 283

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) Half-Life 2		26 926
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		7 504
3	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		2 166
4	German (de) Half-Life 2		1 592
5	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		1 464
6	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		1 116
7	French (fr) Half-Life 2		1 108
8	Japanese (ja) ハーフライフ2		1 033
9	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		942
10	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		598

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Half-Life 2		1 678
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		432
3	German (de) Half-Life 2		320
4	French (fr) Half-Life 2		229
5	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		182
6	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		155
7	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		121
8	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		118
9	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		112
10	Swedish (sv) Half-Life 2		98

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	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		8
2	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		4
3	English (en) Half-Life 2		2
4	Arabic (ar) هاف-لايف 2		1
5	Catalan (ca) Half-Life 2		1
6	German (de) Half-Life 2		1
7	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		1
8	Turkish (tr) Half-Life 2		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Half-Life 2		0
10	Belarusian (be) Half-Life 2		0

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

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