Michael Phelps

Quality:

Michael Phelps - American swimmer (born 1985). This person is the 443^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 893^rd most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Michael Phelps” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.85 points.

This article has the best quality in Italian 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 6580^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4028^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 893^rd most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1251^st most popular in all topics.

The 2334^th most popular in AI.

The 443^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6574^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Michael Phelps”, its content was written by 41 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4028^th place) and edited by 4849 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2334^th place).

Michael Phelps is on the 893^rd place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 443^rd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 12 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9721 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #14 in August 2008
• Global: #2 in August 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #34 in August 2008
• Global: #2 in August 2016

There are 53 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	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		98.2504
2	English (en) Michael Phelps		94.7939
3	Ukrainian (uk) Майкл Фелпс		93.3333
4	Greek (el) Μάικλ Φελπς		77.6018
5	French (fr) Michael Phelps		74.1665
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Michael Phelps		69.0186
7	Hungarian (hu) Michael Phelps		66.3977
8	Latin (la) Michael Fred Phelps		62.6578
9	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		57.3941
10	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		56.7867

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Michael Phelps		51 121 282
2	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		7 102 755
3	French (fr) Michael Phelps		3 942 277
4	Russian (ru) Фелпс, Майкл		3 868 388
5	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		3 200 139
6	German (de) Michael Phelps		2 950 093
7	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		2 438 599
8	Japanese (ja) マイケル・フェルプス		2 124 902
9	Polish (pl) Michael Phelps		1 504 658
10	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·菲尔普斯		1 410 363

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 Phelps		76 567
2	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		7 814
3	Russian (ru) Фелпс, Майкл		6 814
4	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		5 728
5	German (de) Michael Phelps		5 575
6	French (fr) Michael Phelps		5 259
7	Japanese (ja) マイケル・フェルプス		3 231
8	Persian (fa) مایکل فلپس		2 427
9	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·菲尔普斯		2 415
10	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		2 357

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Michael Phelps		1 394
2	French (fr) Michael Phelps		319
3	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		309
4	German (de) Michael Phelps		275
5	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		272
6	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		162
7	Russian (ru) Фелпс, Майкл		160
8	Hebrew (he) מייקל פלפס		158
9	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·菲尔普斯		149
10	Dutch (nl) Michael Phelps		128

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	Arabic (ar) مايكل فيلبس		3
2	English (en) Michael Phelps		2
3	Persian (fa) مایکل فلپس		2
4	Turkish (tr) Michael Phelps		2
5	Hungarian (hu) Michael Phelps		1
6	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		1
7	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·菲尔普斯		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Maykl Felps		0
9	Belarusian (be) Майкл Фелпс		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Майкъл Фелпс		0

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

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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