Melbourne Cup

Quality:

Melbourne Cup - Australian horse race held at Flemington, Melbourne each year. This event is the 1937^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 400^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Melbourne Cup” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 4 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:

The 400^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1937^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “Melbourne Cup”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 703 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Melbourne Cup is on the 400^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1937^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2157 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #353 in August 2007
• Global: #1419 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1452 in November 2012
• Global: #10332 in November 2015

There are 12 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) Melbourne Cup		84.3942
2	Chinese (zh) 墨爾本盃		53.9969
3	German (de) Melbourne Cup		42.7841
4	Swedish (sv) Melbourne Cup		32.5861
5	French (fr) Melbourne Cup		27.7353
6	Japanese (ja) メルボルンカップ		23.0796
7	Vietnamese (vi) Melbourne Cup		22.6533
8	Simple English (simple) Melbourne Cup		19.2201
9	Dutch (nl) Melbourne Cup		15.5354
10	Russian (ru) Мельбурнский кубок		15.0336

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Melbourne Cup		3 539 984
2	Japanese (ja) メルボルンカップ		426 184
3	Chinese (zh) 墨爾本盃		117 309
4	German (de) Melbourne Cup		60 821
5	French (fr) Melbourne Cup		50 992
6	Russian (ru) Мельбурнский кубок		42 707
7	Dutch (nl) Melbourne Cup		18 747
8	Polish (pl) Melbourne Cup		17 030
9	Simple English (simple) Melbourne Cup		15 880
10	Vietnamese (vi) Melbourne Cup		7 663

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) Melbourne Cup		4 645
2	Japanese (ja) メルボルンカップ		2 850
3	Chinese (zh) 墨爾本盃		362
4	German (de) Melbourne Cup		117
5	Russian (ru) Мельбурнский кубок		112
6	French (fr) Melbourne Cup		100
7	Vietnamese (vi) Melbourne Cup		28
8	Korean (ko) 멜버른 컵		21
9	Simple English (simple) Melbourne Cup		14
10	Dutch (nl) Melbourne Cup		12

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Melbourne Cup		499
2	Japanese (ja) メルボルンカップ		55
3	German (de) Melbourne Cup		37
4	Dutch (nl) Melbourne Cup		24
5	Chinese (zh) 墨爾本盃		23
6	French (fr) Melbourne Cup		20
7	Simple English (simple) Melbourne Cup		16
8	Polish (pl) Melbourne Cup		10
9	Vietnamese (vi) Melbourne Cup		7
10	Russian (ru) Мельбурнский кубок		6

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	German (de) Melbourne Cup		1
2	English (en) Melbourne Cup		1
3	Korean (ko) 멜버른 컵		1
4	French (fr) Melbourne Cup		0
5	Japanese (ja) メルボルンカップ		0
6	Dutch (nl) Melbourne Cup		0
7	Polish (pl) Melbourne Cup		0
8	Russian (ru) Мельбурнский кубок		0
9	Simple English (simple) Melbourne Cup		0
10	Swedish (sv) Melbourne Cup		0

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

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