BBC World Service

Quality:

BBC World Service - international radio station of the BBC. Article “BBC World Service” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 4.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7029^th most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6702^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “BBC World Service”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 1387 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 75 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 7816 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #1657 in November 2006
• Global: #2070 in August 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #34228 in June 2009
• Global: #100 in December 2019

There are 36 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	Hindi (hi) बीबीसी वर्ल्ड सर्विस		80.6531
2	English (en) BBC World Service		78.4437
3	Uzbek (uz) BBC World Service		74.9636
4	Urdu (ur) بی بی سی ورلڈ سروس		62.0761
5	Swedish (sv) BBC World Service		57.3846
6	Ukrainian (uk) BBC World Service		54.9595
7	Portuguese (pt) BBC World Service		50.6663
8	German (de) BBC World Service		50.6214
9	Finnish (fi) BBC World Service		50.4981
10	Chinese (zh) 英國廣播公司國際頻道		48.2546

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BBC World Service		29 109 052
2	French (fr) BBC World Service		949 545
3	Spanish (es) Servicio Mundial de la BBC		920 621
4	German (de) BBC World Service		833 457
5	Russian (ru) BBC World Service		800 677
6	Chinese (zh) 英國廣播公司國際頻道		748 542
7	Ukrainian (uk) BBC World Service		560 419
8	Korean (ko) BBC 월드 서비스		430 696
9	Arabic (ar) الإذاعات العالمية لهيئة الإذاعة البريطانية		310 458
10	Dutch (nl) BBC World Service		132 211

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) BBC World Service		83 000
2	Russian (ru) BBC World Service		10 224
3	Korean (ko) BBC 월드 서비스		9 407
4	Ukrainian (uk) BBC World Service		8 523
5	Spanish (es) Servicio Mundial de la BBC		6 558
6	German (de) BBC World Service		3 619
7	Chinese (zh) 英國廣播公司國際頻道		3 437
8	French (fr) BBC World Service		2 734
9	Dutch (nl) BBC World Service		742
10	Japanese (ja) BBCワールドサービス		303

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) BBC World Service		717
2	German (de) BBC World Service		105
3	French (fr) BBC World Service		104
4	Chinese (zh) 英國廣播公司國際頻道		54
5	Russian (ru) BBC World Service		40
6	Japanese (ja) BBCワールドサービス		32
7	Dutch (nl) BBC World Service		31
8	Korean (ko) BBC 월드 서비스		26
9	Italian (it) BBC World Service		23
10	Hindi (hi) बीबीसी वर्ल्ड सर्विस		22

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	Dutch (nl) BBC World Service		4
2	Azerbaijani (az) BBC World Service		2
3	English (en) BBC World Service		2
4	Portuguese (pt) BBC World Service		2
5	Hungarian (hu) A BBC Világszolgálata		1
6	Italian (it) BBC World Service		1
7	Polish (pl) BBC World Service		1
8	Russian (ru) BBC World Service		1
9	Arabic (ar) الإذاعات العالمية لهيئة الإذاعة البريطانية		0
10	Belarusian (be) BBC World Service		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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information