American Civil War

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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 9^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 94.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 375 references and 56 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 148^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 267^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 223^rd most popular in all topics.

The 351^st most popular in AI.

The 9^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 645^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 581^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1670^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “American Civil War” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 49 authors in all languages (1670^th place).

Since the creation of article “American Civil War”, its content was written by 2711 registered users of English Wikipedia (267^th place) and edited by 8974 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 9^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 44043 times in English Wikipedia (261^st place) and cited 111782 times in all languages (1156^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #22 in August 2001
• Global: #29 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #52 in June 2020
• Global: #42 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, 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	Hebrew (he) מלחמת האזרחים האמריקנית		100
2	Croatian (hr) Američki građanski rat		100
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Američki građanski rat		100
4	Latin (la) Bellum Civile Americanum		100
5	Slovenian (sl) Ameriška državljanska vojna		99.6807
6	Spanish (es) Guerra de Secesión		94.6337
7	English (en) American Civil War		94.1108
8	Slovak (sk) Americká občianska vojna		93.7689
9	Portuguese (pt) Guerra de Secessão		93.2859
10	Thai (th) สงครามกลางเมืองอเมริกา		92.564

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) American Civil War		89 917 334
2	Spanish (es) Guerra de Secesión		11 971 840
3	German (de) Sezessionskrieg		10 325 525
4	French (fr) Guerre de Sécession		9 452 010
5	Russian (ru) Гражданская война в США		8 010 601
6	Japanese (ja) 南北戦争		5 278 671
7	Italian (it) Guerra civile americana		4 918 617
8	Polish (pl) Wojna secesyjna		4 796 722
9	Portuguese (pt) Guerra de Secessão		4 504 990
10	Chinese (zh) 南北战争		3 305 555

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) American Civil War		322 614
2	Spanish (es) Guerra de Secesión		34 124
3	German (de) Sezessionskrieg		32 946
4	French (fr) Guerre de Sécession		29 954
5	Russian (ru) Гражданская война в США		29 791
6	Japanese (ja) 南北戦争		22 331
7	Portuguese (pt) Guerra de Secessão		17 885
8	Italian (it) Guerra civile americana		15 924
9	Chinese (zh) 南北战争		15 813
10	Polish (pl) Wojna secesyjna		11 985

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		2 711
2	German (de) Sezessionskrieg		695
3	French (fr) Guerre de Sécession		616
4	Italian (it) Guerra civile americana		362
5	Spanish (es) Guerra de Secesión		359
6	Russian (ru) Гражданская война в США		352
7	Dutch (nl) Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog		319
8	Hebrew (he) מלחמת האזרחים האמריקנית		242
9	Polish (pl) Wojna secesyjna		234
10	Chinese (zh) 南北战争		220

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		8
2	German (de) Sezessionskrieg		7
3	Russian (ru) Гражданская война в США		4
4	Indonesian (id) Perang Saudara Amerika		3
5	Italian (it) Guerra civile americana		3
6	Catalan (ca) Guerra Civil dels Estats Units		2
7	Basque (eu) Ameriketako Estatu Batuetako gerra zibila		2
8	Hebrew (he) מלחמת האזרחים האמריקנית		2
9	Romanian (ro) Războiul Civil American		2
10	Slovenian (sl) Ameriška državljanska vojna		2

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

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