1998 FIFA World Cup

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1998 FIFA World Cup - 16th FIFA football World Cup finals, held in France. This event is the 82^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 234^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “1998 FIFA World Cup” in Simple English Wikipedia has 40 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 25 sections.

This article has the best quality in Croatian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 234^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3104^th most popular in all topics.

The 4708^th most popular in AI.

The 82^nd most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3817^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5698^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “1998 FIFA World Cup”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3643 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4708^th place).

1998 FIFA World Cup is on the 234^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 82^nd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 457 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5794^th place) and cited 42292 times in all languages (3855^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #272 in January 2015
• Global: #201 in July 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1358 in December 2024
• Global: #28 in July 2018

There are 53 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	Croatian (hr) Svjetsko prvenstvo u nogometu – Francuska 1998.		92.723
2	Slovak (sk) Majstrovstvá sveta vo futbale 1998		81.0402
3	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1998		79.727
4	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 1998		78.5944
5	English (en) 1998 FIFA World Cup		74.3317
6	Korean (ko) 1998년 FIFA 월드컵		73.7522
7	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 1998		73.4129
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) FIFA Svjetsko prvenstvo 1998.		70.8132
9	Greek (el) Παγκόσμιο Κύπελλο Ποδοσφαίρου 1998		68.7743
10	Malay (ms) Piala Dunia FIFA 1998		66.2099

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1998 FIFA World Cup		18 827 898
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998		6 277 892
3	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1998		4 887 080
4	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1998		2 976 798
5	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998		2 928 050
6	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1998		2 844 659
7	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 1998		2 513 060
8	Japanese (ja) 1998 FIFAワールドカップ		1 990 014
9	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1998		1 384 089
10	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 1998		1 120 074

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) 1998 FIFA World Cup		76 959
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998		26 940
3	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1998		15 917
4	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1998		12 656
5	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 1998		11 639
6	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1998		10 601
7	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998		10 265
8	Japanese (ja) 1998 FIFAワールドカップ		6 576
9	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 1998		4 935
10	Persian (fa) جام جهانی فوتبال ۱۹۹۸		4 833

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1998 FIFA World Cup		753
2	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1998		328
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998		275
4	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998		260
5	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1998		242
6	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 1998		176
7	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1998		145
8	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1998		96
9	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 1998		96
10	Japanese (ja) 1998 FIFAワールドカップ		90

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) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998		7
2	English (en) 1998 FIFA World Cup		4
3	Uzbek (uz) Futbol boʻyicha 1998-yilgi jahon chempionati		3
4	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1998		2
5	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 1998		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) 1998 FİFA Dünya Kuboku		1
7	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998		1
8	Finnish (fi) Jalkapallon maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 1998		1
9	Hebrew (he) מונדיאל 1998		1
10	Japanese (ja) 1998 FIFAワールドカップ		1

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

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