1940 Winter Olympics

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1940 Winter Olympics - edition of the Winter Olympics, scheduled in Sapporo, Japan, canceled due to World War II. This event is the 4551^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 490^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “1940 Winter Olympics” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 490^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4551^st most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “1940 Winter Olympics”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 656 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

1940 Winter Olympics is on the 490^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 4551^st place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 74 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3961 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1627 in February 2010
• Global: #6442 in February 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #320 in February 2010
• Global: #12808 in February 2010

There are 37 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) 1940 Winter Olympics		28.924
2	Japanese (ja) 1940年札幌オリンピック		27.3105
3	Polish (pl) Zimowe Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1940		25.7942
4	Norwegian (no) Vinter-OL 1940		25.6627
5	Ukrainian (uk) Зимові Олімпійські ігри 1940		22.9238
6	Catalan (ca) Jocs Olímpics d'Hivern de 1940		22.8929
7	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1940		18.7608
8	Italian (it) Giochi olimpici invernali 1940		15.0561
9	Lithuanian (lt) 1940 m. žiemos olimpinės žaidynės		15.0253
10	Simple English (simple) 1940 Winter Olympics		14.1812

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1940 Winter Olympics		682 297
2	Japanese (ja) 1940年札幌オリンピック		334 563
3	German (de) Olympische Winterspiele 1940		130 959
4	Russian (ru) Зимние Олимпийские игры 1940		86 135
5	Polish (pl) Zimowe Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1940		78 463
6	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1940		55 857
7	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1940		54 637
8	Chinese (zh) 1940年冬季奥林匹克运动会		37 088
9	Italian (it) Giochi olimpici invernali 1940		34 742
10	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno de 1940		32 486

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) 1940 Winter Olympics		1 472
2	Japanese (ja) 1940年札幌オリンピック		431
3	Chinese (zh) 1940年冬季奥林匹克运动会		259
4	German (de) Olympische Winterspiele 1940		254
5	Russian (ru) Зимние Олимпийские игры 1940		142
6	Polish (pl) Zimowe Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1940		122
7	Spanish (es) Juegos Olímpicos de Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1940		89
8	Simple English (simple) 1940 Winter Olympics		79
9	Portuguese (pt) Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno de 1940		74
10	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1940		72

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1940 Winter Olympics		76
2	German (de) Olympische Winterspiele 1940		64
3	French (fr) Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1940		44
4	Japanese (ja) 1940年札幌オリンピック		42
5	Dutch (nl) Olympische Winterspelen 1940		36
6	Norwegian (no) Vinter-OL 1940		30
7	Italian (it) Giochi olimpici invernali 1940		29
8	Russian (ru) Зимние Олимпийские игры 1940		29
9	Danish (da) Vinter-OL 1940		25
10	Polish (pl) Zimowe Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1940		25

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	Chinese (zh) 1940年冬季奥林匹克运动会		1
2	Arabic (ar) الألعاب الأولمبية الشتوية 1940		0
3	Belarusian (be) Зімовыя Алімпійскія гульні 1940		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Зимни олимпийски игри 1940		0
5	Catalan (ca) Jocs Olímpics d'Hivern de 1940		0
6	Czech (cs) Zimní olympijské hry 1940		0
7	Danish (da) Vinter-OL 1940		0
8	German (de) Olympische Winterspiele 1940		0
9	Greek (el) Χειμερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 1940		0
10	English (en) 1940 Winter Olympics		0

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

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