Sputnik

Quality:

Sputnik - Russian government news agency. This company is the 1895^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 417^th most popular website in Russian Wikipedia. Article “Sputnik” in Russian Wikipedia has 41 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 54 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.55 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Russian Wikipedia:

The 417^th most popular in websites in Russian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1895^th most popular in business.

The 398^th most popular in websites.

Since the creation of article “Sputnik”, its content was written by 128 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 950 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sputnik is on the 1895^th place in global ranking of business on Wikipedia in all the time.

Sputnik is on the 417^th place in local ranking of websites in Russian Wikipedia and on the 398^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 729 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 3304 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #740 in May 2019
• Global: #864 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #13028 in March 2022
• Global: #4414 in March 2022

There are 35 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) Sputnik (news agency)		77.7594
2	Spanish (es) Sputnik (agencia de noticias)		63.0664
3	Ukrainian (uk) Sputnik		53.623
4	French (fr) Sputnik (agence de presse)		43.7413
5	Russian (ru) Sputnik		40.9894
6	German (de) Sputnik (Nachrichtenportal)		40.6383
7	Estonian (et) Sputnik (uudisteportaal)		38.6172
8	Italian (it) Sputnik (agenzia di stampa)		34.6055
9	Polish (pl) Sputnik (agencja informacyjna)		28.0749
10	Romanian (ro) Sputnik International		27.6812

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sputnik (news agency)		1 587 305
2	French (fr) Sputnik (agence de presse)		727 323
3	German (de) Sputnik (Nachrichtenportal)		644 957
4	Russian (ru) Sputnik		310 519
5	Portuguese (pt) Sputnik (agência de notícias)		291 594
6	Spanish (es) Sputnik (agencia de noticias)		231 192
7	Japanese (ja) スプートニク (通信社)		176 953
8	Italian (it) Sputnik (agenzia di stampa)		154 379
9	Chinese (zh) 俄罗斯卫星通讯社		116 318
10	Polish (pl) Sputnik (agencja informacyjna)		93 595

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) Sputnik (news agency)		9 408
2	Russian (ru) Sputnik		2 960
3	Chinese (zh) 俄罗斯卫星通讯社		1 503
4	Japanese (ja) スプートニク (通信社)		1 229
5	Italian (it) Sputnik (agenzia di stampa)		1 227
6	French (fr) Sputnik (agence de presse)		1 127
7	German (de) Sputnik (Nachrichtenportal)		886
8	Spanish (es) Sputnik (agencia de noticias)		799
9	Turkish (tr) Sputnik (haber ajansı)		714
10	Persian (fa) اسپوتنیک (خبرگزاری)		644

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sputnik (news agency)		237
2	Russian (ru) Sputnik		128
3	German (de) Sputnik (Nachrichtenportal)		116
4	French (fr) Sputnik (agence de presse)		102
5	Spanish (es) Sputnik (agencia de noticias)		44
6	Chinese (zh) 俄罗斯卫星通讯社		42
7	Italian (it) Sputnik (agenzia di stampa)		35
8	Japanese (ja) スプートニク (通信社)		28
9	Polish (pl) Sputnik (agencja informacyjna)		22
10	Turkish (tr) Sputnik (haber ajansı)		17

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) Sputnik (news agency)		4
2	Italian (it) Sputnik (agenzia di stampa)		1
3	Arabic (ar) سبوتنيك (وكالة أنباء)		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Sputnik (xəbər agentliyi)		0
5	Belarusian (be) Sputnik		0
6	Catalan (ca) Sputnik (agència de notícies)		0
7	Czech (cs) Sputnik (agentura)		0
8	German (de) Sputnik (Nachrichtenportal)		0
9	Greek (el) Sputnik (πρακτορείο ειδήσεων)		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Sputnik (amaskomunikilo)		0

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

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