Sputnik programme

Quality:

Article “Sputnik programme” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Sputnik programme”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6952^nd place) and edited by 1876 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3416 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #225 in October 2007
• Global: #488 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3976 in November 2014
• Global: #14190 in February 2021

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	German (de) Sputnik		49.7478
2	Slovak (sk) Program Sputnik		32.378
3	Portuguese (pt) Sputnik		30.6716
4	Simple English (simple) Sputnik programme		30.1003
5	Chinese (zh) 苏联卫星计划		29.5187
6	Tamil (ta) இசுப்புட்னிக் திட்டம்		23.6648
7	Korean (ko) 스푸트니크 계획		23.5066
8	Galician (gl) Programa Sputnik		22.6408
9	Czech (cs) Program Sputnik		22.6002
10	French (fr) Spoutnik		21.0436

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Sputnik		1 687 358
2	French (fr) Spoutnik		1 212 685
3	Portuguese (pt) Sputnik		1 098 767
4	English (en) List of spacecraft called Sputnik		787 941
5	Japanese (ja) スプートニク計画		504 609
6	Spanish (es) Programa Sputnik		496 472
7	Polish (pl) Sputnik		375 975
8	Dutch (nl) Spoetnikprogramma		225 398
9	Swedish (sv) Sputnik		215 343
10	Italian (it) Programma Sputnik		140 791

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Sputnik		2 528
2	French (fr) Spoutnik		1 616
3	English (en) List of spacecraft called Sputnik		1 208
4	Portuguese (pt) Sputnik		768
5	Japanese (ja) スプートニク計画		556
6	Polish (pl) Sputnik		526
7	Italian (it) Programma Sputnik		379
8	Spanish (es) Programa Sputnik		302
9	Swedish (sv) Sputnik		213
10	Russian (ru) Спутник (космическая программа)		152

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of spacecraft called Sputnik		396
2	German (de) Sputnik		270
3	French (fr) Spoutnik		191
4	Dutch (nl) Spoetnikprogramma		107
5	Portuguese (pt) Sputnik		79
6	Spanish (es) Programa Sputnik		68
7	Italian (it) Programma Sputnik		64
8	Polish (pl) Sputnik		54
9	Japanese (ja) スプートニク計画		50
10	Danish (da) Sputnik-satellitter		49

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) List of spacecraft called Sputnik		1
2	Ukrainian (uk) Супутник (космічна програма)		1
3	Arabic (ar) قائمة مركبات الفضاء المسماة سبوتنك		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Спутник (програма)		0
5	Catalan (ca) Spútnik		0
6	Czech (cs) Program Sputnik		0
7	Danish (da) Sputnik-satellitter		0
8	German (de) Sputnik		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Sputniko		0
10	Spanish (es) Programa Sputnik		0

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

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