2012 Aurora theater shooting

Quality:

2012 Aurora shooting - mass shooting in a movie theater in the United States. Article “2012 Aurora theater shooting” in English Wikipedia has 93.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 230 references and 26 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “2012 Aurora theater shooting” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “2012 Aurora theater shooting”, its content was written by 894 registered users of English Wikipedia (8916^th place) and edited by 1890 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 524 times in English Wikipedia and cited 963 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in July 2012
• Global: #2 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #34 in July 2012
• Global: #67 in July 2012

There are 35 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) 2012 Aurora theater shooting		93.1256
2	Chinese (zh) 2012年奥罗拉枪击事件		90.0519
3	Thai (th) เหตุยิงกันในออโรรา ค.ศ. 2012		69.175
4	German (de) Amoklauf von Aurora		55.7322
5	Spanish (es) Masacre de Aurora de 2012		52.5342
6	Finnish (fi) Auroran elokuvateatteriampuminen		50.0368
7	Polish (pl) Strzelanina w kinie w Aurorze		45.3394
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Aurora-massakren		44.4961
9	Russian (ru) Массовое убийство в городе Орора		43.1033
10	Hebrew (he) פיגוע הירי באורורה		42.0876

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2012 Aurora theater shooting		11 371 202
2	Spanish (es) Masacre de Aurora de 2012		669 860
3	German (de) Amoklauf von Aurora		591 046
4	Russian (ru) Массовое убийство в городе Орора		378 288
5	Japanese (ja) オーロラ銃乱射事件		344 491
6	French (fr) Fusillade d'Aurora		331 554
7	Italian (it) Massacro di Aurora		322 649
8	Chinese (zh) 2012年奥罗拉枪击事件		183 770
9	Portuguese (pt) Massacre em Aurora em 2012		147 137
10	Polish (pl) Strzelanina w kinie w Aurorze		119 555

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) 2012 Aurora theater shooting		32 497
2	French (fr) Fusillade d'Aurora		1 660
3	Russian (ru) Массовое убийство в городе Орора		1 185
4	German (de) Amoklauf von Aurora		1 083
5	Spanish (es) Masacre de Aurora de 2012		955
6	Japanese (ja) オーロラ銃乱射事件		783
7	Italian (it) Massacro di Aurora		650
8	Portuguese (pt) Massacre em Aurora em 2012		333
9	Chinese (zh) 2012年奥罗拉枪击事件		284
10	Polish (pl) Strzelanina w kinie w Aurorze		215

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2012 Aurora theater shooting		894
2	German (de) Amoklauf von Aurora		172
3	French (fr) Fusillade d'Aurora		84
4	Spanish (es) Masacre de Aurora de 2012		78
5	Italian (it) Massacro di Aurora		76
6	Russian (ru) Массовое убийство в городе Орора		65
7	Dutch (nl) Schietpartij in Aurora op 20 juli 2012		51
8	Chinese (zh) 2012年奥罗拉枪击事件		40
9	Hebrew (he) פיגוע הירי באורורה		35
10	Hungarian (hu) 2012-es aurorai lövöldözés		35

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) 2012 Aurora theater shooting		3
2	Spanish (es) Masacre de Aurora de 2012		1
3	French (fr) Fusillade d'Aurora		1
4	Hungarian (hu) 2012-es aurorai lövöldözés		1
5	Arabic (ar) مذبحة أورورا 2012		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Масово убийство в Аурора		0
7	Catalan (ca) Massacre d'Aurora de 2012		0
8	Danish (da) Skyderierne i Aurora 2012		0
9	German (de) Amoklauf von Aurora		0
10	Estonian (et) 2012. aasta Aurora kinotulistamine		0

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

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