Black Death

Quality:

Black Death - 1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa. Article “Black Death” in English Wikipedia has 86.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 272 references and 22 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.59 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 328^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 569^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 378^th most popular in all topics.

The 696^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2208^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1897^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 6306^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Black Death” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 26 authors in all languages (6306^th place).

Since the creation of article “Black Death”, its content was written by 2295 registered users of English Wikipedia (569^th place) and edited by 7293 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (696^th place).

The article is cited 3141 times in English Wikipedia and cited 17726 times in all languages (9803^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #51 in December 2001
• Global: #57 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12 in March 2020
• Global: #9 in March 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	Georgian (ka) შავი ჭირი		97.1429
2	Italian (it) Peste nera		96.9491
3	Belarusian (be) Чорная смерць		96.3038
4	Azerbaijani (az) Qara ölüm		95.966
5	Ukrainian (uk) Чорна смерть		95.9111
6	Portuguese (pt) Peste Negra		95.6127
7	Simple English (simple) Black Death		95.5093
8	Russian (ru) Чёрная смерть		95.4334
9	French (fr) Peste noire		92.5255
10	Romanian (ro) Moartea neagră		92.381

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Death		72 060 485
2	Spanish (es) Peste negra		19 585 097
3	Portuguese (pt) Peste Negra		7 309 785
4	Russian (ru) Чёрная смерть		6 187 900
5	French (fr) Peste noire		5 744 113
6	German (de) Schwarzer Tod		5 064 217
7	Italian (it) Peste nera		4 356 609
8	Chinese (zh) 黑死病		3 337 209
9	Polish (pl) Czarna śmierć		2 926 782
10	Swedish (sv) Digerdöden		1 940 865

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) Black Death		154 941
2	Spanish (es) Peste negra		25 971
3	French (fr) Peste noire		18 867
4	Russian (ru) Чёрная смерть		14 320
5	German (de) Schwarzer Tod		11 166
6	Chinese (zh) 黑死病		6 959
7	Italian (it) Peste nera		6 288
8	Portuguese (pt) Peste Negra		6 206
9	Japanese (ja) 黒死病		5 207
10	Polish (pl) Czarna śmierć		4 711

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black Death		2 295
2	German (de) Schwarzer Tod		504
3	Spanish (es) Peste negra		454
4	French (fr) Peste noire		445
5	Russian (ru) Чёрная смерть		325
6	Italian (it) Peste nera		305
7	Portuguese (pt) Peste Negra		271
8	Norwegian (no) Svartedauden		231
9	Swedish (sv) Digerdöden		231
10	Hebrew (he) המוות השחור		186

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) Black Death		5
2	Spanish (es) Peste negra		2
3	Norwegian (no) Svartedauden		2
4	Russian (ru) Чёрная смерть		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Qara ölüm		1
6	Catalan (ca) Pesta Negra		1
7	Czech (cs) Černá smrt		1
8	Danish (da) Den sorte død		1
9	German (de) Schwarzer Tod		1
10	Estonian (et) Must surm		1

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

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