2018 FIFA World Cup

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2018 FIFA World Cup - 21st FIFA World Cup, held in Russia. This event is the 8^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 75^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “2018 FIFA World Cup” in Simple English Wikipedia has 92.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 81 references and 27 sections.

This article has the best quality in German 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 3801^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6388^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 75^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 185^th most popular in all topics.

The 755^th most popular in AI.

The 8^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6614^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1328^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2980^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “2018 FIFA World Cup”, its content was written by 31 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6388^th place) and edited by 7037 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (755^th place).

2018 FIFA World Cup is on the 75^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 8^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 344 times in Simple English Wikipedia (8878^th place) and cited 55573 times in all languages (2911^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #46 in June 2018
• Global: #1 in July 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #264 in August 2018
• Global: #1 in June 2018

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	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		100
2	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 2018		100
3	Hungarian (hu) 2018-as labdarúgó-világbajnokság		100
4	Malay (ms) Piala Dunia FIFA 2018		100
5	Tamil (ta) 2018 உலகக்கோப்பை காற்பந்து		100
6	Indonesian (id) Piala Dunia FIFA 2018		99.4186
7	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		98.7323
8	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ		97.9754
9	Vietnamese (vi) Giải vô địch bóng đá thế giới 2018		96.9201
10	Catalan (ca) Copa del Món de Futbol de 2018		94.6838

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup		76 341 932
2	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		17 246 697
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		16 936 662
4	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		10 508 144
5	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		9 874 687
6	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		6 953 130
7	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2018		6 418 776
8	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2018		5 664 404
9	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ		4 750 663
10	Chinese (zh) 2018年國際足協世界盃		4 589 558

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) 2018 FIFA World Cup		148 895
2	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		43 980
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		43 762
4	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		21 015
5	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2018		19 941
6	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		17 270
7	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		16 727
8	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ		11 426
9	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2018		9 035
10	Persian (fa) جام جهانی فوتبال ۲۰۱۸		8 746

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup		1 298
2	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		684
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		582
4	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		521
5	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		499
6	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2018		412
7	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 2018		244
8	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2018		239
9	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		216
10	Chinese (zh) 2018年國際足協世界盃		209

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	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		11
2	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup		7
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		3
4	Uzbek (uz) Futbol boʻyicha 2018-yilgi jahon chempionati		3
5	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 2018		2
6	Hebrew (he) מונדיאל 2018		2
7	Catalan (ca) Copa del Món de Futbol de 2018		1
8	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		1
9	Basque (eu) 2018ko Munduko Futbol Txapelketa		1
10	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		1

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

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