Basketball

Quality:

Basketball - team sport played on a court with baskets on either end. This event is the 5^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 48.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.56 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 104^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 117^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 132^nd most popular in all topics.

The 227^th most popular in AI.

The 5^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 262^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1529^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2104^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 963^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Basketball” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1529^th place) and written by 64 authors in all languages (963^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Basketball”, its content was written by 196 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (117^th place) and edited by 10043 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (227^th place).

Basketball is on the 3^rd place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 5^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1362 times in Simple English Wikipedia (343^rd place) and cited 297036 times in all languages (336^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #13 in February 2018
• Global: #16 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, 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	Polish (pl) Koszykówka		100
2	French (fr) Basket-ball		95.5077
3	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		86.9638
4	English (en) Basketball		80.9761
5	German (de) Basketball		78.9111
6	Esperanto (eo) Korbopilko		76.5051
7	Hindi (hi) बास्केटबॉल		70.9146
8	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		70.1973
9	Estonian (et) Korvpall		65.6964
10	Finnish (fi) Koripallo		62.0682

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		50 908 619
2	English (en) Basketball		45 440 336
3	Portuguese (pt) Basquetebol		15 792 098
4	Indonesian (id) Bola basket		14 009 618
5	Russian (ru) Баскетбол		8 463 476
6	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		7 311 826
7	French (fr) Basket-ball		7 304 511
8	German (de) Basketball		6 768 502
9	Italian (it) Pallacanestro		6 045 480
10	Arabic (ar) كرة السلة		5 827 618

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		99 402
2	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		45 720
3	Thai (th) บาสเกตบอล		16 600
4	Russian (ru) Баскетбол		16 027
5	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		13 261
6	French (fr) Basket-ball		11 137
7	Indonesian (id) Bola basket		10 465
8	Italian (it) Pallacanestro		8 972
9	Portuguese (pt) Basquetebol		8 765
10	German (de) Basketball		7 311

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Basketball		2 052
2	Spanish (es) Baloncesto		731
3	German (de) Basketball		617
4	French (fr) Basket-ball		569
5	Italian (it) Pallacanestro		569
6	Dutch (nl) Basketbal		413
7	Hebrew (he) כדורסל		409
8	Portuguese (pt) Basquetebol		300
9	Japanese (ja) バスケットボール		275
10	Turkish (tr) Basketbol		271

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		19
2	Italian (it) Pallacanestro		9
3	German (de) Basketball		5
4	French (fr) Basket-ball		4
5	Chinese (zh) 篮球		3
6	English (en) Basketball		2
7	Korean (ko) 농구		2
8	Norwegian (no) Basketball		2
9	Polish (pl) Koszykówka		2
10	Portuguese (pt) Basquetebol		2

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

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In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Black, Alba Baptista, List of European countries, XXXTentacion, Golden Edge, SOLID (object-oriented design), Strait of Hormuz, Megan Skiendiel, Manon Bannerman, Chris Evans.

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information