Michael Phelps

Quality:

Michael Phelps - American swimmer (born 1985). This person is the 422^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 378^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article "Michael Phelps" in English Wikipedia has 95.2 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 391 references and 33 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 747^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2754^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 378^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1259^th most popular in all topics.

The 2249^th most popular in AI.

The 422^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 69^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 48^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1618^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Michael Phelps" was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 58 authors in all languages (1618^th place).

Since the creation of article "Michael Phelps", its content was written by 1364 registered users of English Wikipedia (2754^th place) and edited by 4745 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2249^th place).

Michael Phelps is on the 378^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 422^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 1680 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9035 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #11 in August 2008
• Global: #2 in August 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1 in August 2016
• Global: #2 in August 2016

There are 53 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	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		99.0082
2	English (en) Michael Phelps		95.2326
3	Ukrainian (uk) Майкл Фелпс		92.2222
4	Greek (el) Μάικλ Φελπς		75.6234
5	French (fr) Michael Phelps		74.7765
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Michael Phelps		69.0183
7	Hungarian (hu) Michael Phelps		62.847
8	Latin (la) Michael Fred Phelps		61.8962
9	Persian (fa) مایکل فلپس		60.0978
10	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		58.1274

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Michael Phelps		47 498 553
2	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		6 648 681
3	French (fr) Michael Phelps		3 288 180
4	Russian (ru) Фелпс, Майкл		3 267 290
5	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		2 887 606
6	German (de) Michael Phelps		2 681 712
7	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		2 278 294
8	Japanese (ja) マイケル・フェルプス		1 991 671
9	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·菲尔普斯		1 380 182
10	Polish (pl) Michael Phelps		1 360 977

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) Michael Phelps		1 321 688
2	French (fr) Michael Phelps		349 811
3	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		164 312
4	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		123 753
5	German (de) Michael Phelps		116 175
6	Polish (pl) Michael Phelps		60 934
7	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		60 134
8	Russian (ru) Фелпс, Майкл		51 830
9	Persian (fa) مایکل فلپس		37 368
10	Japanese (ja) マイケル・フェルプス		31 353

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Michael Phelps		1 364
2	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		298
3	French (fr) Michael Phelps		292
4	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		268
5	German (de) Michael Phelps		267
6	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		158
7	Russian (ru) Фелпс, Майкл		158
8	Hebrew (he) מייקל פלפס		151
9	Chinese (zh) 迈克尔·菲尔普斯		139
10	Dutch (nl) Michael Phelps		128

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	Spanish (es) Michael Phelps		10
2	English (en) Michael Phelps		6
3	French (fr) Michael Phelps		6
4	Persian (fa) مایکل فلپس		5
5	German (de) Michael Phelps		3
6	Greek (el) Μάικλ Φελπς		3
7	Hebrew (he) מייקל פלפס		3
8	Italian (it) Michael Phelps		3
9	Portuguese (pt) Michael Phelps		3
10	Polish (pl) Michael Phelps		2

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

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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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from August, 2024. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from July 2024 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2023... More information