Yao Ming

Quality:

Yao Ming - Chinese basketball player. This person is the 1519^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Yao Ming” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 19 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5102^nd most popular in all topics.

The 6323^rd most popular in AI.

The 1519^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5063^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Yao Ming”, its content was written by 48 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 3173 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6323^rd place).

Yao Ming is on the 1519^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 17 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 6192 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #472 in August 2008
• Global: #74 in August 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #3371 in August 2008
• Global: #325 in August 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, 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	English (en) Yao Ming		97.7555
2	Indonesian (id) Yao Ming		94.2857
3	Croatian (hr) Yao Ming		88.5629
4	Chinese (zh) 姚明		88.3817
5	German (de) Yao Ming		88.0952
6	Hebrew (he) יאו מינג		83.9322
7	Serbian (sr) Јао Минг		81.4366
8	Spanish (es) Yao Ming		75.0104
9	French (fr) Yao Ming		45.3217
10	Greek (el) Γιάο Μινγκ		44.0961

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Yao Ming		24 530 151
2	Spanish (es) Yao Ming		3 525 874
3	Chinese (zh) 姚明		2 466 659
4	French (fr) Yao Ming		1 484 670
5	Japanese (ja) 姚明		1 280 945
6	Italian (it) Yao Ming		1 193 760
7	Russian (ru) Яо Мин		1 157 762
8	German (de) Yao Ming		1 016 175
9	Portuguese (pt) Yao Ming		668 657
10	Polish (pl) Yao Ming		474 319

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) Yao Ming		123 344
2	Chinese (zh) 姚明		15 227
3	Spanish (es) Yao Ming		5 930
4	German (de) Yao Ming		4 526
5	Japanese (ja) 姚明		4 517
6	Russian (ru) Яо Мин		4 372
7	French (fr) Yao Ming		3 866
8	Italian (it) Yao Ming		2 962
9	Portuguese (pt) Yao Ming		1 666
10	Simple English (simple) Yao Ming		1 268

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Yao Ming		1 170
2	Chinese (zh) 姚明		306
3	Spanish (es) Yao Ming		175
4	French (fr) Yao Ming		167
5	German (de) Yao Ming		141
6	Italian (it) Yao Ming		137
7	Hebrew (he) יאו מינג		127
8	Russian (ru) Яо Мин		90
9	Japanese (ja) 姚明		87
10	Dutch (nl) Yao Ming		61

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) Yao Ming		4
2	Croatian (hr) Yao Ming		2
3	Serbian (sr) Јао Минг		2
4	Chinese (zh) 姚明		2
5	Hebrew (he) יאו מינג		1
6	Arabic (ar) ياو مينغ		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Yao Min		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Яо Мин		0
9	Catalan (ca) Yao Ming		0
10	Czech (cs) Jao Ming		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