Michael Oliver (referee)

Quality:

Michael Oliver - English football referee. Article “Michael Oliver (referee)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.35 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Michael Oliver (referee)”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 674 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 27 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4609 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #245 in December 2022
• Global: #109 in April 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #13039 in April 2023
• Global: #4493 in April 2018

There are 30 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) Michael Oliver (Schiedsrichter)		36.0399
2	Italian (it) Michael Oliver (arbitro)		35.1973
3	English (en) Michael Oliver (referee)		31.3694
4	Vietnamese (vi) Michael Oliver		27.305
5	Norwegian (no) Michael Oliver		24.0938
6	Greek (el) Μάικλ Όλιβερ		24.0608
7	Indonesian (id) Michael Oliver (wasit)		23.6314
8	Hebrew (he) מייקל אוליבר		22.8031
9	Portuguese (pt) Michael Oliver (árbitro)		22.4756
10	Kazakh (kk) Майкл Оливер		21.8133

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Michael Oliver (referee)		1 422 914
2	Italian (it) Michael Oliver (arbitro)		140 916
3	Russian (ru) Оливер, Майкл (футбольный судья)		81 571
4	German (de) Michael Oliver (Schiedsrichter)		62 939
5	Spanish (es) Michael Oliver (árbitro)		48 537
6	Arabic (ar) مايكل أوليفر		48 496
7	Japanese (ja) マイケル・オリヴァー		42 957
8	French (fr) Michael Oliver		39 132
9	Portuguese (pt) Michael Oliver (árbitro)		37 739
10	Chinese (zh) 米高·奧利華		22 748

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) Michael Oliver (referee)		9 926
2	Portuguese (pt) Michael Oliver (árbitro)		2 579
3	German (de) Michael Oliver (Schiedsrichter)		2 405
4	Spanish (es) Michael Oliver (árbitro)		2 327
5	French (fr) Michael Oliver		1 544
6	Russian (ru) Оливер, Майкл (футбольный судья)		1 213
7	Italian (it) Michael Oliver (arbitro)		918
8	Simple English (simple) Michael Oliver (referee)		390
9	Japanese (ja) マイケル・オリヴァー		326
10	Arabic (ar) مايكل أوليفر		259

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Michael Oliver (referee)		281
2	Italian (it) Michael Oliver (arbitro)		80
3	Portuguese (pt) Michael Oliver (árbitro)		38
4	German (de) Michael Oliver (Schiedsrichter)		26
5	French (fr) Michael Oliver		24
6	Russian (ru) Оливер, Майкл (футбольный судья)		21
7	Dutch (nl) Michael Oliver (scheidsrechter)		20
8	Hebrew (he) מייקל אוליבר		17
9	Japanese (ja) マイケル・オリヴァー		16
10	Hungarian (hu) Michael Oliver		15

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	Italian (it) Michael Oliver (arbitro)		4
2	French (fr) Michael Oliver		3
3	Portuguese (pt) Michael Oliver (árbitro)		3
4	English (en) Michael Oliver (referee)		2
5	Spanish (es) Michael Oliver (árbitro)		1
6	Indonesian (id) Michael Oliver (wasit)		1
7	Dutch (nl) Michael Oliver (scheidsrechter)		1
8	Arabic (ar) مايكل أوليفر		0
9	Belarusian (be) Майкл Олівер (футбольны суддзя)		0
10	Czech (cs) Michael Oliver (fotbalový rozhodčí)		0

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

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