Yao Ming

Quality:

Yao Ming - Chinese basketball player. This person is the 1553^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Yao Ming” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8331^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5131^st most popular in all topics.

The 6435^th most popular in AI.

The 1553^rd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 4173^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Yao Ming”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3188 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6435^th place).

Yao Ming is on the 1553^rd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6675 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #866 in March 2025
• Global: #74 in August 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #925 in April 2024
• Global: #314 in August 2008

There are 45 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) Yao Ming		97.808
2	Indonesian (id) Yao Ming		92.5
3	Croatian (hr) Yao Ming		88.593
4	Chinese (zh) 姚明		88.5245
5	German (de) Yao Ming		87.4286
6	Hebrew (he) יאו מינג		81.6596
7	Serbian (sr) Јао Минг		81.1295
8	Spanish (es) Yao Ming		73.8783
9	French (fr) Yao Ming		46.1736
10	Greek (el) Γιάο Μινγκ		44.3601

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Yao Ming		25 601 692
2	Spanish (es) Yao Ming		3 584 340
3	Chinese (zh) 姚明		2 596 067
4	French (fr) Yao Ming		1 540 511
5	Russian (ru) Яо Мин		1 364 403
6	Japanese (ja) 姚明		1 335 825
7	Italian (it) Yao Ming		1 240 935
8	German (de) Yao Ming		1 048 988
9	Portuguese (pt) Yao Ming		684 066
10	Polish (pl) Yao Ming		487 384

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) Yao Ming		132 775
2	Chinese (zh) 姚明		11 541
3	Spanish (es) Yao Ming		5 406
4	French (fr) Yao Ming		5 309
5	Japanese (ja) 姚明		4 818
6	Italian (it) Yao Ming		4 206
7	Russian (ru) Яо Мин		3 193
8	German (de) Yao Ming		2 564
9	Portuguese (pt) Yao Ming		1 558
10	Polish (pl) Yao Ming		866

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Yao Ming		1 187
2	Chinese (zh) 姚明		315
3	Spanish (es) Yao Ming		175
4	French (fr) Yao Ming		169
5	German (de) Yao Ming		141
6	Italian (it) Yao Ming		139
7	Hebrew (he) יאו מינג		128
8	Russian (ru) Яо Мин		91
9	Japanese (ja) 姚明		88
10	Dutch (nl) Yao Ming		61

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) Yao Ming		3
2	Azerbaijani (az) Yao Min		1
3	Catalan (ca) Yao Ming		1
4	Greek (el) Γιάο Μινγκ		1
5	Basque (eu) Yao Ming		1
6	French (fr) Yao Ming		1
7	Polish (pl) Yao Ming		1
8	Russian (ru) Яо Мин		1
9	Chinese (zh) 姚明		1
10	Arabic (ar) ياو مينغ		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information