Referee

Quality:

Referee - person of authority, in a variety of sports, who is responsible for presiding over the game from a neutral point of view. Article “Referee” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.26 points.

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 “Referee”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1573 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 229 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10107 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #267 in December 2021
• Global: #4960 in February 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7586 in May 2022
• Global: #16853 in June 2010

There are 40 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) Referee		54.1966
2	French (fr) Arbitre sportif		52.9967
3	German (de) Schiedsrichter		40.1921
4	Latin (la) Arbiter (ars athletica)		38.9087
5	Italian (it) Arbitro (sport)		30.327
6	Japanese (ja) 審判員		27.7847
7	Russian (ru) Судья (спорт)		26.9214
8	Polish (pl) Sędzia sportowy		26.5934
9	Urdu (ur) ریفری		25.0204
10	Portuguese (pt) Árbitro		24.8845

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Referee		2 216 451
2	Spanish (es) Árbitro (deporte)		1 853 835
3	Portuguese (pt) Árbitro		751 169
4	German (de) Schiedsrichter		455 686
5	Polish (pl) Sędzia sportowy		306 347
6	Japanese (ja) 審判員		292 106
7	French (fr) Arbitre sportif		170 183
8	Russian (ru) Судья (спорт)		151 697
9	Indonesian (id) Wasit		150 983
10	Dutch (nl) Scheidsrechter		114 647

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) Referee		3 574
2	Spanish (es) Árbitro (deporte)		1 698
3	German (de) Schiedsrichter		1 293
4	Portuguese (pt) Árbitro		963
5	Russian (ru) Судья (спорт)		895
6	Japanese (ja) 審判員		714
7	French (fr) Arbitre sportif		519
8	Polish (pl) Sędzia sportowy		347
9	Chinese (zh) 裁判 (體育)		332
10	Dutch (nl) Scheidsrechter		282

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Referee		362
2	German (de) Schiedsrichter		195
3	Spanish (es) Árbitro (deporte)		170
4	French (fr) Arbitre sportif		125
5	Portuguese (pt) Árbitro		78
6	Polish (pl) Sędzia sportowy		77
7	Japanese (ja) 審判員		61
8	Dutch (nl) Scheidsrechter		60
9	Russian (ru) Судья (спорт)		42
10	Persian (fa) داور		34

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	Russian (ru) Судья (спорт)		2
2	Persian (fa) داور		1
3	Polish (pl) Sędzia sportowy		1
4	Arabic (ar) حكم (رياضة)		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Hakim (idman)		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Спортен съдия		0
7	Catalan (ca) Àrbitre		0
8	Czech (cs) Rozhodčí		0
9	Danish (da) Dommer (sport)		0
10	German (de) Schiedsrichter		0

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

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