2006 FIFA World Cup

Quality:

2006 FIFA World Cup - 18th FIFA World Cup, held in Germany. This event is the 38^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 143^rd most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “2006 FIFA World Cup” in Simple English Wikipedia has 37.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 22 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8184^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2254^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 143^rd most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1322^nd most popular in all topics.

The 411^th most popular in AI.

The 38^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5213^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2319^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3135^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “2006 FIFA World Cup”, its content was written by 54 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2254^th place) and edited by 8597 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (411^th place).

2006 FIFA World Cup is on the 143^rd place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 38^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 584 times in Simple English Wikipedia (3072^nd place) and cited 55024 times in all languages (2938^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #55 in July 2006
• Global: #1 in June 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #590 in June 2010
• Global: #8 in June 2010

There are 54 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	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 2006		100
2	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2006		92.9414
3	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006		87.1333
4	English (en) 2006 FIFA World Cup		86.3674
5	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 2006		74.9819
6	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2006		74.0744
7	Korean (ko) 2006년 FIFA 월드컵		73.1534
8	Slovak (sk) Majstrovstvá sveta vo futbale 2006		72.0229
9	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2006		70.1429
10	Chinese (zh) 2006年國際足協世界盃		69.1683

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2006 FIFA World Cup		29 219 549
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2006		8 690 961
3	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006		7 256 266
4	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2006		5 725 452
5	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2006		4 626 254
6	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2006		4 598 621
7	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2006		3 712 006
8	Japanese (ja) 2006 FIFAワールドカップ		2 852 529
9	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2006		2 385 188
10	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 2006		1 573 759

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) 2006 FIFA World Cup		107 166
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2006		31 713
3	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2006		26 476
4	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006		19 712
5	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2006		15 472
6	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2006		13 500
7	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2006		12 105
8	Japanese (ja) 2006 FIFAワールドカップ		7 877
9	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 2006		6 265
10	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2006		5 414

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2006 FIFA World Cup		2 122
2	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006		1 162
3	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2006		569
4	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2006		541
5	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2006		484
6	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2006		277
7	Chinese (zh) 2006年國際足協世界盃		259
8	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 2006		244
9	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2006		232
10	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2006		218

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) 2006 FIFA World Cup		13
2	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006		5
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2006		4
4	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2006		4
5	Hebrew (he) מונדיאל 2006		2
6	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 2006		1
7	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2006		1
8	Hungarian (hu) 2006-os labdarúgó-világbajnokság		1
9	Japanese (ja) 2006 FIFAワールドカップ		1
10	Korean (ko) 2006년 FIFA 월드컵		1

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

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