Polybius

Polybius - urban legend; supposed arcade cabinet. This video game is the 937^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games. Article “Polybius” in Russian Wikipedia has 40.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 46 references and 10 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Polybius”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 784 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Polybius is on the 937^th place in global ranking of video games on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 9 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 299 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #5880 in April 2019
• Global: #7470 in July 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #46525 in November 2017
• Global: #13081 in October 2017

There are 15 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) Polybius (urban legend)		73.3851
2	Catalan (ca) Polybius (videojoc)		42.7426
3	Ukrainian (uk) Полібій (міська легенда)		42.2932
4	Dutch (nl) Polybius (computerspel)		42.1699
5	Russian (ru) Polybius		40.6348
6	German (de) Polybius (Moderne Sage)		38.4834
7	French (fr) Polybius (légende urbaine)		34.254
8	Japanese (ja) ポリビアス (都市伝説)		31.2446
9	Italian (it) Polybius (videogioco)		28.5652
10	Portuguese (pt) Polybius (jogo eletrônico)		21.3135

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Polybius" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Polybius (urban legend)		2 728 223
2	Spanish (es) Polybius (leyenda urbana)		2 122 076
3	German (de) Polybius (Moderne Sage)		176 769
4	Italian (it) Polybius (videogioco)		154 632
5	Portuguese (pt) Polybius (jogo eletrônico)		85 818
6	Japanese (ja) ポリビアス (都市伝説)		67 220
7	Russian (ru) Polybius		64 934
8	French (fr) Polybius (légende urbaine)		30 687
9	Chinese (zh) Polybius (都市傳說)		18 705
10	Persian (fa) پولیبیوس (بازی ویدئویی)		10 398

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Polybius" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Polybius (urban legend)		18 627
2	Spanish (es) Polybius (leyenda urbana)		1 080
3	Japanese (ja) ポリビアス (都市伝説)		829
4	German (de) Polybius (Moderne Sage)		618
5	French (fr) Polybius (légende urbaine)		355
6	Italian (it) Polybius (videogioco)		337
7	Russian (ru) Polybius		318
8	Simple English (simple) Polybius (urban legend)		316
9	Portuguese (pt) Polybius (jogo eletrônico)		195
10	Chinese (zh) Polybius (都市傳說)		136

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

Language versions of the article "Polybius" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Polybius (urban legend)		463
2	Spanish (es) Polybius (leyenda urbana)		117
3	German (de) Polybius (Moderne Sage)		68
4	Italian (it) Polybius (videogioco)		41
5	Portuguese (pt) Polybius (jogo eletrônico)		20
6	French (fr) Polybius (légende urbaine)		13
7	Russian (ru) Polybius		13
8	Persian (fa) پولیبیوس (بازی ویدئویی)		11
9	Catalan (ca) Polybius (videojoc)		9
10	Japanese (ja) ポリビアス (都市伝説)		8

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

Language versions of the article "Polybius" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Polybius (Moderne Sage)		4
2	English (en) Polybius (urban legend)		3
3	Italian (it) Polybius (videogioco)		2
4	Catalan (ca) Polybius (videojoc)		0
5	Spanish (es) Polybius (leyenda urbana)		0
6	Persian (fa) پولیبیوس (بازی ویدئویی)		0
7	French (fr) Polybius (légende urbaine)		0
8	Japanese (ja) ポリビアス (都市伝説)		0
9	Korean (ko) 폴리비우스 (도시전설)		0
10	Dutch (nl) Polybius (computerspel)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Polybius" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Polybius (urban legend)		205
2	Spanish (es) Polybius (leyenda urbana)		19
3	Simple English (simple) Polybius (urban legend)		14
4	Japanese (ja) ポリビアス (都市伝説)		9
5	Russian (ru) Polybius		9
6	German (de) Polybius (Moderne Sage)		8
7	Italian (it) Polybius (videogioco)		8
8	Persian (fa) پولیبیوس (بازی ویدئویی)		7
9	French (fr) Polybius (légende urbaine)		6
10	Catalan (ca) Polybius (videojoc)		4

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Polybius (videojoc)
de	German Polybius (Moderne Sage)
en	English Polybius (urban legend)
es	Spanish Polybius (leyenda urbana)
fa	Persian پولیبیوس (بازی ویدئویی)
fr	French Polybius (légende urbaine)
it	Italian Polybius (videogioco)
ja	Japanese ポリビアス (都市伝説)
ko	Korean 폴리비우스 (도시전설)
nl	Dutch Polybius (computerspel)
pt	Portuguese Polybius (jogo eletrônico)
ru	Russian Polybius
simple	Simple English Polybius (urban legend)
uk	Ukrainian Полібій (міська легенда)
zh	Chinese Polybius (都市傳說)

Best Rank

Russian: #46525 11.2017

Global: #13081 10.2017

Best Rank

Russian: #5880 04.2019

Global: #7470 07.2021

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