Garrincha

Quality:

Garrincha - Brazilian association football player (1933–1983). This person is the 4896^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Garrincha” in Simple English Wikipedia has 49.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 17 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8152^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 8097^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4896^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2522^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2710^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2557^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Garrincha”, its content was written by 28 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8097^th place) and edited by 2465 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Garrincha is on the 4896^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 140 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4339 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #154 in August 2022
• Global: #1525 in June 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #523 in December 2022
• Global: #903 in December 2022

There are 47 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	English (en) Garrincha		94.6059
2	Russian (ru) Гарринча		93.3846
3	Italian (it) Garrincha		92.6316
4	Georgian (ka) გარინჩა		92.4675
5	Portuguese (pt) Garrincha		80.6239
6	Greek (el) Γκαρίντσα		79.4152
7	Japanese (ja) ガリンシャ		52.9155
8	Catalan (ca) Manuel Francisco dos Santos		51.5702
9	Simple English (simple) Garrincha		49.3819
10	Finnish (fi) Garrincha		49.241

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Garrincha		4 569 915
2	Portuguese (pt) Garrincha		3 471 594
3	Spanish (es) Garrincha		2 349 054
4	Italian (it) Garrincha		1 677 281
5	Russian (ru) Гарринча		1 600 634
6	French (fr) Garrincha		1 171 336
7	German (de) Garrincha		640 498
8	Japanese (ja) ガリンシャ		513 378
9	Polish (pl) Garrincha		500 918
10	Dutch (nl) Garrincha		277 480

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) Garrincha		74 429
2	Portuguese (pt) Garrincha		57 103
3	Spanish (es) Garrincha		22 932
4	Italian (it) Garrincha		14 600
5	Russian (ru) Гарринча		10 484
6	French (fr) Garrincha		10 317
7	German (de) Garrincha		6 560
8	Japanese (ja) ガリンシャ		5 925
9	Polish (pl) Garrincha		5 072
10	Persian (fa) گارینشا		2 816

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Garrincha		375
2	Portuguese (pt) Garrincha		287
3	Italian (it) Garrincha		202
4	Spanish (es) Garrincha		159
5	German (de) Garrincha		145
6	Russian (ru) Гарринча		137
7	French (fr) Garrincha		126
8	Dutch (nl) Garrincha		95
9	Hebrew (he) גארינצ'ה		61
10	Japanese (ja) ガリンシャ		57

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) Garrincha		12
2	Portuguese (pt) Garrincha		9
3	Spanish (es) Garrincha		5
4	Persian (fa) گارینشا		3
5	Azerbaijani (az) Qarrinça		2
6	French (fr) Garrincha		2
7	Arabic (ar) غارينشيا		1
8	Catalan (ca) Manuel Francisco dos Santos		1
9	Greek (el) Γκαρίντσα		1
10	Basque (eu) Garrincha		1

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.

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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