Basketball

Quality:

Basketball - team sport played on a court with baskets on either end. This event is the 4^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 3^rd most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Basketball” in Simple English Wikipedia has 53.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.83 points.

This article has the best quality in Polish 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 107^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 112^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 3^rd most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 138^th most popular in all topics.

The 230^th most popular in AI.

The 4^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1028^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 670^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3290^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1175^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Basketball” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (670^th place) and written by 58 authors in all languages (1175^th place).

Since the creation of article “Basketball”, its content was written by 208 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (112^th place) and edited by 10148 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (230^th place).

Basketball is on the 3^rd place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 4^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1399 times in Simple English Wikipedia (352^nd place) and cited 312722 times in all languages (321^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #13 in February 2018
• Global: #17 in December 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in April 2015
• Global: #13 in April 2015

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, 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	Polish (pl) Koszykówka		100
2	French (fr) Basket-ball		95.4642
3	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		85.4569
4	German (de) Basketball		78.2236
5	Swedish (sv) Basket		76.3029
6	Esperanto (eo) Korbopilko		76.1521
7	English (en) Basketball		73.6121
8	Hindi (hi) बास्केटबॉल		70.9194
9	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		70.873
10	Estonian (et) Korvpall		65.4455

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		51 642 466
2	English (en) Basketball		46 458 041
3	Portuguese (pt) Basquetebol		15 948 039
4	Indonesian (id) Bola basket		14 141 530
5	Russian (ru) Баскетбол		9 526 281
6	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		7 463 870
7	French (fr) Basket-ball		7 455 263
8	German (de) Basketball		6 920 180
9	Italian (it) Pallacanestro		6 136 536
10	Arabic (ar) كرة السلة		5 927 176

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) Basketball		92 660
2	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		24 420
3	Russian (ru) Баскетбол		12 044
4	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		11 621
5	French (fr) Basket-ball		9 266
6	German (de) Basketball		8 295
7	Italian (it) Pallacanestro		5 871
8	Portuguese (pt) Basquetebol		3 952
9	Persian (fa) بسکتبال		3 938
10	Chinese (zh) 篮球		3 563

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basketball		2 092
2	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		749
3	German (de) Basketball		632
4	French (fr) Basket-ball		585
5	Italian (it) Pallacanestro		580
6	Hebrew (he) כדורסל		419
7	Dutch (nl) Basketbal		416
8	Portuguese (pt) Basquetebol		304
9	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		285
10	Turkish (tr) Basketbol		274

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) Baloncesto		17
2	English (en) Basketball		6
3	Hebrew (he) כדורסל		6
4	Korean (ko) 농구		5
5	Esperanto (eo) Korbopilko		3
6	German (de) Basketball		2
7	Finnish (fi) Koripallo		2
8	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		2
9	Russian (ru) Баскетбол		2
10	Simple English (simple) Basketball		2

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information