George Best

Quality:

George Best - Northern Irish footballer (1946–2005). This person is the 2248^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “George Best” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 67.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 82 references and 13 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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7663^rd most popular in all topics.

The 6427^th most popular in AI.

The 2248^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Portuguese Wikipedia:

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The 4487^th most popular in Portuguese Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1812^th most editable in Portuguese Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4010^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9162^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “George Best” was edited by 3 authors in Portuguese Wikipedia (1812^th place) and written by 21 authors in all languages (9162^nd place).

Since the creation of article “George Best”, its content was written by 57 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 3189 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6427^th place).

George Best is on the 2248^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 385 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 9857 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #831 in November 2005
• Global: #37 in November 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #1953 in September 2025
• Global: #1244 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, 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	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		99.571
2	English (en) George Best		96.4565
3	Hungarian (hu) George Best		87.1429
4	Spanish (es) George Best		85.7749
5	Armenian (hy) Ջորջ Բեսթ		74.0306
6	Portuguese (pt) George Best		67.4337
7	Italian (it) George Best		58.9389
8	Greek (el) Τζορτζ Μπεστ		57.3059
9	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		44.7268
10	Georgian (ka) ჯორჯ ბესტი		43.8088

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) George Best		16 519 131
2	Italian (it) George Best		3 563 595
3	Spanish (es) George Best		2 189 047
4	French (fr) George Best		1 670 973
5	German (de) George Best		1 543 111
6	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		1 423 718
7	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		902 711
8	Portuguese (pt) George Best		751 281
9	Polish (pl) George Best		694 099
10	Dutch (nl) George Best		495 737

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		108 760
2	Spanish (es) George Best		9 633
3	French (fr) George Best		8 881
4	Italian (it) George Best		8 174
5	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		8 054
6	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		7 568
7	German (de) George Best		4 715
8	Portuguese (pt) George Best		4 202
9	Turkish (tr) George Best		2 176
10	Vietnamese (vi) George Best		2 115

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		1 064
2	Italian (it) George Best		248
3	French (fr) George Best		175
4	German (de) George Best		166
5	Spanish (es) George Best		121
6	Russian (ru) Бест, Джордж		106
7	Dutch (nl) George Best		90
8	Hebrew (he) ג'ורג' בסט		74
9	Polish (pl) George Best		69
10	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		68

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	Spanish (es) George Best		5
2	English (en) George Best		3
3	Portuguese (pt) George Best		3
4	Azerbaijani (az) Corc Best		2
5	Catalan (ca) George Best		2
6	Arabic (ar) جورج بست		1
7	Greek (el) Τζορτζ Μπεστ		1
8	Hungarian (hu) George Best		1
9	Japanese (ja) ジョージ・ベスト		1
10	Turkish (tr) George Best		1

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Portuguese Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Erling Haaland, República Democrática do Congo, Romelu Lukaku, Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2026, Kylian Mbappé, Senegal, Copa do Mundo FIFA, Lista de artilheiros da Copa do Mundo FIFA, Harry Kane, Carlo Ancelotti.

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