2015 Thalys train attack

Quality:

2015 Thalys train attack - attempted mass shooting on a Thalys train on 21 August 2015. Article “2015 Thalys train attack” in English Wikipedia has 89.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 199 references and 24 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.71 points.

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

Since the creation of article “2015 Thalys train attack”, its content was written by 222 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 563 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 198 times in English Wikipedia and cited 826 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #37 in August 2015
• Global: #38 in August 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #956 in February 2018
• Global: #1154 in February 2018

There are 14 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) 2015 Thalys train attack		89.5714
2	Spanish (es) Atentado del tren Thalys de 2015		63.9732
3	French (fr) Attentat du train Thalys le 21 août 2015		63.947
4	Swedish (sv) Attentatet mot Thalys-tåget 2015		62.4468
5	German (de) Anschlag im Thalys-Zug 9364		47.9519
6	Persian (fa) حمله به قطار تالیس ۲۰۱۵		34.5978
7	Hungarian (hu) Terrortámadás a Thalys vonaton (2015)		33.6184
8	Chinese (zh) 大力士高速列車槍擊案		33.6074
9	Japanese (ja) タリス銃乱射事件		28.3396
10	Armenian (hy) Հրաձգություն Թալի Zug 9364 գնացքում		27.8796

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2015 Thalys train attack		2 173 191
2	French (fr) Attentat du train Thalys le 21 août 2015		666 256
3	Japanese (ja) タリス銃乱射事件		469 219
4	German (de) Anschlag im Thalys-Zug 9364		319 315
5	Italian (it) Attacco al treno Thalys del 21 agosto 2015		241 498
6	Spanish (es) Atentado del tren Thalys de 2015		214 066
7	Chinese (zh) 大力士高速列車槍擊案		91 195
8	Czech (cs) Útok ve vlaku Thalys (2015)		12 372
9	Swedish (sv) Attentatet mot Thalys-tåget 2015		11 480
10	Norwegian (no) Attentatet mot Thalys-toget 2015		4 767

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) 2015 Thalys train attack		4 018
2	Italian (it) Attacco al treno Thalys del 21 agosto 2015		2 013
3	French (fr) Attentat du train Thalys le 21 août 2015		1 666
4	Japanese (ja) タリス銃乱射事件		788
5	German (de) Anschlag im Thalys-Zug 9364		445
6	Spanish (es) Atentado del tren Thalys de 2015		444
7	Chinese (zh) 大力士高速列車槍擊案		131
8	Czech (cs) Útok ve vlaku Thalys (2015)		112
9	Hungarian (hu) Terrortámadás a Thalys vonaton (2015)		25
10	Portuguese (pt) Atentado ao trem Thalys		21

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2015 Thalys train attack		222
2	French (fr) Attentat du train Thalys le 21 août 2015		152
3	German (de) Anschlag im Thalys-Zug 9364		80
4	Spanish (es) Atentado del tren Thalys de 2015		22
5	Italian (it) Attacco al treno Thalys del 21 agosto 2015		22
6	Japanese (ja) タリス銃乱射事件		15
7	Chinese (zh) 大力士高速列車槍擊案		12
8	Persian (fa) حمله به قطار تالیس ۲۰۱۵		10
9	Swedish (sv) Attentatet mot Thalys-tåget 2015		8
10	Czech (cs) Útok ve vlaku Thalys (2015)		5

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	French (fr) Attentat du train Thalys le 21 août 2015		1
2	Czech (cs) Útok ve vlaku Thalys (2015)		0
3	German (de) Anschlag im Thalys-Zug 9364		0
4	English (en) 2015 Thalys train attack		0
5	Spanish (es) Atentado del tren Thalys de 2015		0
6	Persian (fa) حمله به قطار تالیس ۲۰۱۵		0
7	Hungarian (hu) Terrortámadás a Thalys vonaton (2015)		0
8	Armenian (hy) Հրաձգություն Թալի Zug 9364 գնացքում		0
9	Italian (it) Attacco al treno Thalys del 21 agosto 2015		0
10	Japanese (ja) タリス銃乱射事件		0

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

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