Rock climbing

Quality:

Rock climbing - sporting activity that involves climbing natural rock formations using physical strength, technique and balance, with hands and feet, and employing safety systems according to the type of climbing practised. Article “Rock climbing” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Rock climbing” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (3367^th place) and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Rock climbing”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1249 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 43 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7558 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1022 in December 2025
• Global: #2474 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #333 in August 2010
• Global: #36365 in April 2008

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, 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) Rock climbing		98.2986
2	Finnish (fi) Kalliokiipeily		64.4553
3	Persian (fa) سنگ‌نوردی		49.5919
4	Chinese (zh) 攀岩		42.3501
5	Russian (ru) Скалолазание		40.9822
6	Hebrew (he) טיפוס מצוקים		36.7168
7	Ukrainian (uk) Скелелазіння		34.8983
8	Norwegian (no) Fjellklatring		33.036
9	Indonesian (id) Panjat tebing		27.8281
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Fjellklatring		27.5909

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rock climbing		3 727 980
2	Russian (ru) Скалолазание		710 717
3	Japanese (ja) ロッククライミング		492 475
4	Chinese (zh) 攀岩		340 112
5	Indonesian (id) Panjat tebing		212 308
6	Czech (cs) Horolezectví		205 390
7	Persian (fa) سنگ‌نوردی		187 167
8	Polish (pl) Wspinaczka skalna		117 105
9	Ukrainian (uk) Скелелазіння		52 064
10	Korean (ko) 암벽등반		36 330

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) Rock climbing		5 402
2	Russian (ru) Скалолазание		1 263
3	Chinese (zh) 攀岩		743
4	Japanese (ja) ロッククライミング		576
5	Persian (fa) سنگ‌نوردی		497
6	Czech (cs) Horolezectví		314
7	Indonesian (id) Panjat tebing		209
8	Polish (pl) Wspinaczka skalna		153
9	Ukrainian (uk) Скелелазіння		116
10	Finnish (fi) Kalliokiipeily		62

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rock climbing		631
2	Russian (ru) Скалолазание		119
3	Chinese (zh) 攀岩		65
4	Czech (cs) Horolezectví		61
5	Persian (fa) سنگ‌نوردی		45
6	Japanese (ja) ロッククライミング		38
7	Ukrainian (uk) Скелелазіння		32
8	Polish (pl) Wspinaczka skalna		30
9	Norwegian (no) Fjellklatring		26
10	Finnish (fi) Kalliokiipeily		25

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) Rock climbing		3
2	Polish (pl) Wspinaczka skalna		2
3	Basque (eu) Harkaitz-eskalada		1
4	Finnish (fi) Kalliokiipeily		1
5	Simple English (simple) Rock climbing		1
6	Arabic (ar) تسلق الصخور		0
7	Belarusian (be) Скалалажанне		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Скално катерене		0
9	Catalan (ca) Escalada en roca		0
10	Czech (cs) Horolezectví		0

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

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