1971 Aral smallpox incident

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1971 Aral smallpox incident

Quality:

1971 Aral smallpox incident - smallpox outbreak from a Soviet bioweapon test. Article “1971 Aral smallpox incident” in English Wikipedia has 25.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “1971 Aral smallpox incident”, its content was written by 30 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 39 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 34 times in English Wikipedia and cited 38 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #102723 in October 2012
  • Global: #295483 in April 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #249299 in August 2015
  • Global: #420024 in August 2015

There are 4 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, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Uzbek (uz)
Orol chechak hodisasi
28.3344
2Kazakh (kk)
Аралдағы шешек оқиғасы
27.5809
3English (en)
1971 Aral smallpox incident
25.4133
4Polish (pl)
Epidemia ospy w Aralsku
18.9757
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "1971 Aral smallpox incident" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
1971 Aral smallpox incident
237 876
2Polish (pl)
Epidemia ospy w Aralsku
1 956
3Uzbek (uz)
Orol chechak hodisasi
283
4Kazakh (kk)
Аралдағы шешек оқиғасы
142
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "1971 Aral smallpox incident" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
1971 Aral smallpox incident
1 208
2Polish (pl)
Epidemia ospy w Aralsku
49
3Uzbek (uz)
Orol chechak hodisasi
12
4Kazakh (kk)
Аралдағы шешек оқиғасы
7
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "1971 Aral smallpox incident" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
1971 Aral smallpox incident
30
2Polish (pl)
Epidemia ospy w Aralsku
5
3Kazakh (kk)
Аралдағы шешек оқиғасы
2
4Uzbek (uz)
Orol chechak hodisasi
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "1971 Aral smallpox incident" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
1971 Aral smallpox incident
0
2Kazakh (kk)
Аралдағы шешек оқиғасы
0
3Polish (pl)
Epidemia ospy w Aralsku
0
4Uzbek (uz)
Orol chechak hodisasi
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "1971 Aral smallpox incident" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
1971 Aral smallpox incident
34
2Polish (pl)
Epidemia ospy w Aralsku
3
3Uzbek (uz)
Orol chechak hodisasi
1
4Kazakh (kk)
Аралдағы шешек оқиғасы
0
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
1971 Aral smallpox incident
kkKazakh
Аралдағы шешек оқиғасы
plPolish
Epidemia ospy w Aralsku
uzUzbek
Orol chechak hodisasi

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#249299
08.2015
Global:
#420024
08.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#102723
10.2012
Global:
#295483
04.2023

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on 1971 Aral smallpox incident from Wikipedia articles about Smallpox, Vozrozhdeniya island, Aral Sea, List of accidents and incidents involving laboratory biosecurity and Aral. Whereas reading the article about 1971 Aral smallpox incident people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Vozrozhdeniya island, Smallpox, Aral Sea, Soviet biological weapons program and Aral.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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