Blood libel

Quality:

Blood libel - rumor that Jews killed Christians to use blood in ceremonies. Article “Blood libel” in English Wikipedia has 90.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 168 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.75 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.

In June 2026 the article “Blood libel” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Blood libel”, its content was written by 900 registered users of English Wikipedia (8749^th place) and edited by 2233 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1665 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6205 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #88 in January 2011
• Global: #409 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #58 in January 2011
• Global: #250 in January 2011

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) Blood libel		90.3326
2	Italian (it) Accusa del sangue		87.2163
3	German (de) Ritualmordlegende		86.6667
4	Hebrew (he) עלילת דם		86.3731
5	Polish (pl) Oskarżenia o mord rytualny względem Żydów		74.4397
6	Turkish (tr) Kan iftirası		73.9738
7	Russian (ru) Кровавый навет на евреев		71.5143
8	French (fr) Accusation de meurtre rituel		70.8731
9	Persian (fa) تهمت خون		69.6193
10	Spanish (es) Libelo de sangre		51.347

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Blood libel		6 187 408
2	Russian (ru) Кровавый навет на евреев		821 325
3	German (de) Ritualmordlegende		614 122
4	Spanish (es) Libelo de sangre		372 675
5	French (fr) Accusation de meurtre rituel		242 995
6	Hebrew (he) עלילת דם		232 069
7	Polish (pl) Oskarżenia o mord rytualny względem Żydów		175 825
8	Italian (it) Accusa del sangue		159 292
9	Japanese (ja) 血の中傷		148 156
10	Arabic (ar) فرية الدم		94 200

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) Blood libel		23 928
2	Russian (ru) Кровавый навет на евреев		3 020
3	German (de) Ritualmordlegende		2 185
4	Italian (it) Accusa del sangue		1 483
5	Spanish (es) Libelo de sangre		1 252
6	Polish (pl) Oskarżenia o mord rytualny względem Żydów		857
7	French (fr) Accusation de meurtre rituel		791
8	Hebrew (he) עלילת דם		724
9	Persian (fa) تهمت خون		683
10	Japanese (ja) 血の中傷		637

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Blood libel		900
2	German (de) Ritualmordlegende		311
3	Hebrew (he) עלילת דם		191
4	Russian (ru) Кровавый навет на евреев		145
5	French (fr) Accusation de meurtre rituel		138
6	Spanish (es) Libelo de sangre		97
7	Italian (it) Accusa del sangue		65
8	Hungarian (hu) Vérvád		60
9	Polish (pl) Oskarżenia o mord rytualny względem Żydów		52
10	Portuguese (pt) Libelo de sangue		31

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	Hebrew (he) עלילת דם		5
2	English (en) Blood libel		3
3	Spanish (es) Libelo de sangre		2
4	Arabic (ar) فرية الدم		1
5	French (fr) Accusation de meurtre rituel		1
6	Indonesian (id) Fitnah darah		1
7	Italian (it) Accusa del sangue		1
8	Russian (ru) Кровавый навет на евреев		1
9	Slovak (sk) Krvná žaloba		1
10	Bulgarian (bg) Кръвна клевета срещу евреите		0

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

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