Half-Life (video game)

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Half-Life - 1998 first-person shooter video game. This video game is the 58^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of video games and the 93^rd most popular video game in English Wikipedia. Article "Half-Life (video game)" in English Wikipedia has 82.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 160 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3237^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 93^rd most popular in video games in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9604^th most popular in all topics.

The 2965^th most popular in AI.

The 58^th most popular in video games.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6827^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Half-Life (video game)" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 28 authors in all languages (6827^th place).

Since the creation of article "Half-Life (video game)", its content was written by 1285 registered users of English Wikipedia (3237^th place) and edited by 4366 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2965^th place).

Half-Life is on the 93^rd place in local ranking of video games in English Wikipedia and on the 58^th place in global ranking of video games in all the time.

The article is cited 443 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3528 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #383 in December 2004
• Global: #356 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2357 in September 2012
• Global: #2464 in September 2012

There are 44 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Chinese (zh) 半衰期 (游戏)		89.9044
2	Polish (pl) Half-Life		82.5483
3	English (en) Half-Life (video game)		82.3138
4	Russian (ru) Half-Life		79.3551
5	Swedish (sv) Half-Life (datorspel)		78.6603
6	German (de) Half-Life (Computerspiel)		74.4831
7	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life		68.0344
8	Greek (el) Half-Life (βιντεοπαιχνίδι)		66.2719
9	Estonian (et) Half-Life		66.1622
10	Azerbaijani (az) Half-Life		63.9842

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Half-Life (video game)		12 646 600
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life		4 900 912
3	Spanish (es) Half-Life		2 546 739
4	German (de) Half-Life (Computerspiel)		1 637 243
5	Polish (pl) Half-Life		755 679
6	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life		747 488
7	Italian (it) Half-Life		631 622
8	Japanese (ja) ハーフライフ (ゲーム)		404 270
9	Turkish (tr) Half-Life		398 557
10	Vietnamese (vi) Half-Life		251 674

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) Half-Life (video game)		41 086
2	Russian (ru) Half-Life		10 818
3	Spanish (es) Half-Life		5 353
4	German (de) Half-Life (Computerspiel)		1 857
5	Japanese (ja) ハーフライフ (ゲーム)		1 842
6	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life		1 658
7	Italian (it) Half-Life		1 541
8	French (fr) Half-Life (jeu vidéo)		1 538
9	Polish (pl) Half-Life		1 350
10	Chinese (zh) 半衰期 (游戏)		1 233

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Half-Life (video game)		1 285
2	German (de) Half-Life (Computerspiel)		403
3	Russian (ru) Half-Life		391
4	French (fr) Half-Life (jeu vidéo)		285
5	Spanish (es) Half-Life		245
6	Italian (it) Half-Life		159
7	Portuguese (pt) Half-Life		128
8	Polish (pl) Half-Life		127
9	Turkish (tr) Half-Life		111
10	Finnish (fi) Half-Life		90

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) Half-Life (video game)		5
2	Spanish (es) Half-Life		4
3	German (de) Half-Life (Computerspiel)		3
4	Polish (pl) Half-Life		3
5	Czech (cs) Half-Life		2
6	Russian (ru) Half-Life		2
7	Arabic (ar) هاف-لايف (لعبة فيديو)		1
8	Belarusian (be) Half-Life		1
9	Basque (eu) Half-Life		1
10	French (fr) Half-Life (jeu vidéo)		1

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

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