Sputnik

Quality:

Sputnik - Russian government news agency. This company is the 1924^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 422^nd most popular website in Russian Wikipedia. Article “Sputnik” in Russian Wikipedia has 42.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 58 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.7 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 422^nd most popular in websites in Russian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1924^th most popular in business.

The 394^th most popular in websites.

Since the creation of article “Sputnik”, its content was written by 129 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 994 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sputnik is on the 1924^th place in global ranking of business on Wikipedia in all the time.

Sputnik is on the 422^nd place in local ranking of websites in Russian Wikipedia and on the 394^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 780 times in Russian Wikipedia and cited 3516 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #737 in May 2019
• Global: #868 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #13025 in March 2022
• Global: #4411 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, 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	English (en) Sputnik (news agency)		77.8066
2	Spanish (es) Sputnik (agencia de noticias)		61.6036
3	Ukrainian (uk) Sputnik		54.9101
4	French (fr) Sputnik (agence de presse)		43.5584
5	Russian (ru) Sputnik		42.2621
6	German (de) Sputnik (Nachrichtenportal)		40.2662
7	Estonian (et) Sputnik (uudisteportaal)		37.7887
8	Vietnamese (vi) Sputnik (hãng thông tấn)		35.9967
9	Italian (it) Sputnik (agenzia di stampa)		35.4772
10	Japanese (ja) スプートニク (通信社)		30.6401

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sputnik (news agency)		1 680 560
2	French (fr) Sputnik (agence de presse)		739 747
3	German (de) Sputnik (Nachrichtenportal)		654 832
4	Russian (ru) Sputnik		332 043
5	Portuguese (pt) Sputnik (agência de notícias)		295 354
6	Spanish (es) Sputnik (agencia de noticias)		238 144
7	Japanese (ja) スプートニク (通信社)		206 259
8	Italian (it) Sputnik (agenzia di stampa)		164 588
9	Chinese (zh) 俄罗斯卫星通讯社		125 849
10	Polish (pl) Sputnik (agencja informacyjna)		97 349

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)		8 236
2	Japanese (ja) スプートニク (通信社)		1 256
3	Russian (ru) Sputnik		1 221
4	French (fr) Sputnik (agence de presse)		898
5	Chinese (zh) 俄罗斯卫星通讯社		840
6	Italian (it) Sputnik (agenzia di stampa)		537
7	German (de) Sputnik (Nachrichtenportal)		517
8	Spanish (es) Sputnik (agencia de noticias)		459
9	Turkish (tr) Sputnik (haber ajansı)		348
10	Portuguese (pt) Sputnik (agência de notícias)		300

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)		245
2	Russian (ru) Sputnik		129
3	German (de) Sputnik (Nachrichtenportal)		119
4	French (fr) Sputnik (agence de presse)		106
5	Spanish (es) Sputnik (agencia de noticias)		46
6	Chinese (zh) 俄罗斯卫星通讯社		45
7	Italian (it) Sputnik (agenzia di stampa)		36
8	Japanese (ja) スプートニク (通信社)		32
9	Polish (pl) Sputnik (agencja informacyjna)		24
10	Czech (cs) Sputnik (agentura)		19

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)		1
2	Romanian (ro) Sputnik International		1
3	Vietnamese (vi) Sputnik (hãng thông tấn)		1
4	Chinese (zh) 俄罗斯卫星通讯社		1
5	Arabic (ar) سبوتنيك (وكالة أنباء)		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Sputnik (xəbər agentliyi)		0
7	Belarusian (be) Sputnik		0
8	Catalan (ca) Sputnik (agència de notícies)		0
9	Czech (cs) Sputnik (agentura)		0
10	German (de) Sputnik (Nachrichtenportal)		0

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

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