Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Quality:

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress - 1935 bomber aircraft family by Boeing. Article “Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress” in English Wikipedia has 97 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 301 references and 33 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7488^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 7696^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9455^th most popular in all topics.

The 7070^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress”, its content was written by 954 registered users of English Wikipedia (7696^th place) and edited by 3040 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7070^th place).

The article is cited 4227 times in English Wikipedia (6280^th place) and cited 13776 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #325 in June 2010
• Global: #932 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #258 in June 2011
• Global: #835 in June 2011

There are 46 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	Polish (pl) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		100
2	English (en) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		97.0492
3	Danish (da) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		96.9516
4	Chinese (zh) B-17轟炸機		93.4662
5	Vietnamese (vi) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		91.7002
6	Italian (it) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		85.1558
7	Russian (ru) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		77.2869
8	Hebrew (he) בואינג B-17 מבצר מעופף		76.9344
9	German (de) Boeing B-17		71.1658
10	Bulgarian (bg) Боинг B-17		70.6401

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		17 224 223
2	German (de) Boeing B-17		2 443 063
3	Japanese (ja) B-17 (航空機)		1 964 772
4	Russian (ru) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		1 426 575
5	French (fr) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		1 022 748
6	Spanish (es) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		888 563
7	Italian (it) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		766 081
8	Polish (pl) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		764 120
9	Chinese (zh) B-17轟炸機		503 310
10	Portuguese (pt) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		323 517

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) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		54 967
2	German (de) Boeing B-17		8 115
3	Japanese (ja) B-17 (航空機)		6 209
4	Russian (ru) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		4 268
5	French (fr) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		3 582
6	Italian (it) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		2 298
7	Spanish (es) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		2 290
8	Polish (pl) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		2 098
9	Chinese (zh) B-17轟炸機		1 960
10	Persian (fa) بوئینگ بی-۱۷ فلایینگ فورترس		905

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		954
2	French (fr) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		232
3	German (de) Boeing B-17		223
4	Russian (ru) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		156
5	Italian (it) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		154
6	Japanese (ja) B-17 (航空機)		138
7	Hebrew (he) בואינג B-17 מבצר מעופף		106
8	Dutch (nl) B-17 Flying Fortress		96
9	Polish (pl) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		84
10	Spanish (es) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		73

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) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		5
2	Azerbaijani (az) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		2
3	French (fr) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		1
4	Italian (it) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		1
5	Japanese (ja) B-17 (航空機)		1
6	Polish (pl) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		1
7	Russian (ru) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress		1
9	Arabic (ar) بوينغ بي-17 القلعة الطائرة		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Боинг B-17		0

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

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