American Civil War

Quality:

American Civil War - 1861–1865 civil war in the United States between the North and the South over the enslavement of African-Americans. This event is the 8^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 2^nd most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “American Civil War” in English Wikipedia has 93.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 397 references and 56 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 153^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 261^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 2^nd most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 222^nd most popular in all topics.

The 351^st most popular in AI.

The 8^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 912^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 5980^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 846^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3395^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “American Civil War” was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (5980^th place) and written by 35 authors in all languages (3395^th place).

Since the creation of article “American Civil War”, its content was written by 2783 registered users of English Wikipedia (261^st place) and edited by 9081 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (351^st place).

American Civil War is on the 2^nd place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 8^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 45735 times in English Wikipedia (256^th place) and cited 117329 times in all languages (1089^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #33 in August 2001
• Global: #40 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #52 in June 2020
• Global: #41 in June 2020

There are 54 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	Croatian (hr) Američki građanski rat		100
2	Latin (la) Bellum Civile Americanum		100
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Američki građanski rat		99.9012
4	Hebrew (he) מלחמת האזרחים האמריקנית		99.8902
5	Arabic (ar) الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية		98.7823
6	Slovenian (sl) Ameriška državljanska vojna		94.5171
7	Spanish (es) Guerra de Secesión		94.3558
8	Portuguese (pt) Guerra Civil Americana		93.9057
9	English (en) American Civil War		93.8869
10	Thai (th) สงครามกลางเมืองอเมริกา		92.343

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) American Civil War		93 413 003
2	Spanish (es) Guerra de Secesión		12 365 553
3	German (de) Sezessionskrieg		10 761 698
4	French (fr) Guerre de Sécession		9 825 106
5	Russian (ru) Гражданская война в США		8 850 199
6	Japanese (ja) 南北戦争		5 499 460
7	Italian (it) Guerra civile americana		5 119 974
8	Polish (pl) Wojna secesyjna		5 000 332
9	Portuguese (pt) Guerra Civil Americana		4 630 801
10	Chinese (zh) 南北战争		3 472 252

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) American Civil War		258 197
2	German (de) Sezessionskrieg		31 025
3	French (fr) Guerre de Sécession		24 882
4	Spanish (es) Guerra de Secesión		22 382
5	Russian (ru) Гражданская война в США		21 895
6	Japanese (ja) 南北戦争		16 352
7	Italian (it) Guerra civile americana		12 696
8	Chinese (zh) 南北战争		10 136
9	Polish (pl) Wojna secesyjna		9 463
10	Portuguese (pt) Guerra Civil Americana		7 332

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) American Civil War		2 783
2	German (de) Sezessionskrieg		701
3	French (fr) Guerre de Sécession		623
4	Spanish (es) Guerra de Secesión		371
5	Italian (it) Guerra civile americana		365
6	Russian (ru) Гражданская война в США		358
7	Dutch (nl) Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog		324
8	Hebrew (he) מלחמת האזרחים האמריקנית		247
9	Polish (pl) Wojna secesyjna		238
10	Chinese (zh) 南北战争		231

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) American Civil War		10
2	German (de) Sezessionskrieg		4
3	Spanish (es) Guerra de Secesión		4
4	Arabic (ar) الحرب الأهلية الأمريكية		2
5	French (fr) Guerre de Sécession		2
6	Hungarian (hu) Amerikai polgárháború		2
7	Polish (pl) Wojna secesyjna		2
8	Belarusian (be) Грамадзянская вайна ў ЗША		1
9	Catalan (ca) Guerra Civil dels Estats Units		1
10	Czech (cs) Americká občanská válka		1

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

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