Half-Life 2

Quality:

Half-Life 2 - 2004 first-person shooter video game. This video game is the 66^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 103^rd most popular video game in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Half-Life 2” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 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 7397^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 103^rd most popular in video games in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3257^th most popular in AI.

The 66^th most popular in video games.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4437^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Half-Life 2”, its content was written by 28 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7397^th place) and edited by 4333 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3257^th place).

Half-Life 2 is on the 103^rd place in local ranking of video games in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 66^th place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 31 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3849 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #355 in June 2024
• Global: #255 in January 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3781 in February 2009
• Global: #1167 in January 2008

There are 45 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) Half-Life 2		90
2	Swedish (sv) Half-Life 2		86.6667
3	English (en) Half-Life 2		85.5826
4	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		84.3073
5	Ukrainian (uk) Half-Life 2		83.3333
6	French (fr) Half-Life 2		78.4982
7	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		72.764
8	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		72.1267
9	Malay (ms) Half-Life 2		51.7448
10	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		46.2033

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Half-Life 2		13 246 134
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		5 002 045
3	German (de) Half-Life 2		1 552 042
4	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		1 453 840
5	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		637 016
6	Japanese (ja) ハーフライフ2		620 192
7	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		595 941
8	French (fr) Half-Life 2		560 842
9	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		469 822
10	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		336 255

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) Half-Life 2		29 189
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		10 579
3	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		2 613
4	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		1 470
5	German (de) Half-Life 2		1 299
6	French (fr) Half-Life 2		1 267
7	Simple English (simple) Half-Life 2		1 216
8	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		1 104
9	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		954
10	Japanese (ja) ハーフライフ2		855

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Half-Life 2		1 650
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		427
3	German (de) Half-Life 2		319
4	French (fr) Half-Life 2		224
5	Spanish (es) Half-Life 2		179
6	Italian (it) Half-Life 2		153
7	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		124
8	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		110
9	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		107
10	Swedish (sv) Half-Life 2		96

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) Half-Life 2		3
2	German (de) Half-Life 2		1
3	Polish (pl) Half-Life 2		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life 2		1
5	Russian (ru) Half-Life 2		1
6	Slovak (sk) Half-Life 2		1
7	Chinese (zh) 半衰期2		1
8	Arabic (ar) هاف-لايف 2		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Half-Life 2		0
10	Belarusian (be) Half-Life 2		0

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

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