Play (activity)

Quality:

Playing - range of voluntary, intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment. Article “Play (activity)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 45.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 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.

Since the creation of article “Play (activity)”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1193 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 45 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3259 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #337 in March 2021
• Global: #4742 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2193 in August 2023
• Global: #14564 in June 2008

There are 27 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	English (en) Play (activity)		99.3303
2	Swedish (sv) Lek		58.8945
3	Spanish (es) Juego (recreación)		47.0719
4	Japanese (ja) 遊び		46.3832
5	Simple English (simple) Play (activity)		45.3867
6	Basque (eu) Jolas		39.6663
7	Catalan (ca) Joc		37.1971
8	Serbian (sr) Igra (aktivnost)		34.3712
9	Italian (it) Gioco		33.2771
10	Finnish (fi) Leikki		32.9485

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Play (activity)		2 215 430
2	Italian (it) Gioco		1 033 220
3	Portuguese (pt) Brincadeira		967 589
4	Japanese (ja) 遊び		875 518
5	Swedish (sv) Lek		332 918
6	Polish (pl) Zabawa		249 005
7	Norwegian (no) Lek		197 597
8	Catalan (ca) Joc		123 905
9	Finnish (fi) Leikki		112 775
10	Korean (ko) 놀이		109 787

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) Play (activity)		7 148
2	Italian (it) Gioco		3 404
3	Japanese (ja) 遊び		1 734
4	Spanish (es) Juego (recreación)		906
5	Portuguese (pt) Brincadeira		731
6	Simple English (simple) Play (activity)		701
7	Indonesian (id) Bermain		574
8	Korean (ko) 놀이		471
9	Finnish (fi) Leikki		302
10	Polish (pl) Zabawa		265

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Play (activity)		340
2	Italian (it) Gioco		197
3	Portuguese (pt) Brincadeira		103
4	Japanese (ja) 遊び		96
5	Korean (ko) 놀이		64
6	Catalan (ca) Joc		61
7	Finnish (fi) Leikki		61
8	Swedish (sv) Lek		47
9	Norwegian (no) Lek		46
10	Polish (pl) Zabawa		37

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) Play (activity)		6
2	Finnish (fi) Leikki		1
3	Swedish (sv) Lek		1
4	Arabic (ar) لعب (نشاط)		0
5	Catalan (ca) Joc		0
6	Danish (da) Leg		0
7	Spanish (es) Juego (recreación)		0
8	Basque (eu) Jolas		0
9	Persian (fa) بازی (فعالیت)		0
10	Galician (gl) Xogo (actividade)		0

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

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