Rugby union

Quality:

Rugby union - team sport, code of rugby football. Article “Rugby union” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian 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 4377^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6153^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9931^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Rugby union”, its content was written by 39 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4377^th place) and edited by 3260 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6153^rd place).

The article is cited 337 times in Simple English Wikipedia (9166^th place) and cited 97174 times in all languages (1468^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #207 in March 2012
• Global: #650 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1937 in March 2010
• Global: #1311 in October 2015

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	Russian (ru) Регби		100
2	German (de) Rugby Union		100
3	Vietnamese (vi) Bóng bầu dục liên hiệp		100
4	Portuguese (pt) Rugby union		96.4666
5	Japanese (ja) ラグビーユニオン		94.1153
6	English (en) Rugby union		90.7946
7	French (fr) Rugby à XV		73.3087
8	Catalan (ca) Rugbi a 15		71.7499
9	Chinese (zh) 橄欖球		56.1974
10	Norwegian (no) Rugby union		52.2013

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rugby union		13 744 188
2	French (fr) Rugby à XV		2 805 843
3	Russian (ru) Регби		2 737 769
4	Italian (it) Rugby a 15		1 314 706
5	Chinese (zh) 橄欖球		991 665
6	Japanese (ja) ラグビーユニオン		919 388
7	German (de) Rugby Union		897 330
8	Polish (pl) Rugby union		481 257
9	Dutch (nl) Rugby union		446 755
10	Czech (cs) Rugby union		216 871

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) Rugby union		46 251
2	French (fr) Rugby à XV		6 070
3	Russian (ru) Регби		5 658
4	German (de) Rugby Union		4 421
5	Japanese (ja) ラグビーユニオン		4 399
6	Chinese (zh) 橄欖球		3 236
7	Italian (it) Rugby a 15		1 249
8	Spanish (es) Rugby union		794
9	Polish (pl) Rugby union		617
10	Dutch (nl) Rugby union		602

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rugby union		1 586
2	French (fr) Rugby à XV		372
3	Italian (it) Rugby a 15		178
4	Russian (ru) Регби		175
5	Dutch (nl) Rugby union		120
6	German (de) Rugby Union		109
7	Japanese (ja) ラグビーユニオン		85
8	Polish (pl) Rugby union		82
9	Czech (cs) Rugby union		62
10	Chinese (zh) 橄欖球		56

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) Rugby union		5
2	Arabic (ar) اتحاد الرغبي		3
3	French (fr) Rugby à XV		2
4	Chinese (zh) 橄欖球		2
5	Catalan (ca) Rugbi a 15		1
6	Basque (eu) Hamabosteko errugbi		1
7	Dutch (nl) Rugby union		1
8	Norwegian (no) Rugby union		1
9	Belarusian (be) Рэгбі-15		0
10	Czech (cs) Rugby union		0

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

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