Common cold

Quality:

Common cold - common viral infection of upper respiratory tract. Article "Common cold" in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 201 references and 23 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8250^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4108^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4089^th most popular in all topics.

The 3440^th most popular in AI.

In July 2024 the article "Common cold" was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Common cold", its content was written by 1166 registered users of English Wikipedia (4108^th place) and edited by 4111 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3440^th place).

The article is cited 1028 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7671 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #912 in September 2002
• Global: #577 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #536 in March 2020
• Global: #418 in March 2020

There are 53 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Common cold		100
2	Chinese (zh) 普通感冒		96.6667
3	German (de) Erkältung		94.2857
4	Simple English (simple) Common cold		90
5	Indonesian (id) Pilek		89.3296
6	Estonian (et) Tavaline nohu		88.8889
7	Slovenian (sl) Prehlad		88.711
8	Turkish (tr) Nezle		87.3804
9	Croatian (hr) Obična prehlada		85.9098
10	Persian (fa) سرماخوردگی		85.0123

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common cold		14 744 852
2	German (de) Erkältung		4 436 727
3	Spanish (es) Resfriado común		4 087 035
4	Japanese (ja) 風邪		3 745 604
5	French (fr) Rhume		1 827 528
6	Persian (fa) سرماخوردگی		1 695 820
7	Russian (ru) Простуда		1 328 866
8	Chinese (zh) 普通感冒		1 221 468
9	Italian (it) Raffreddore comune		1 077 059
10	Arabic (ar) زكام		953 702

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) Common cold		22 980
2	Persian (fa) سرماخوردگی		9 051
3	Chinese (zh) 普通感冒		6 494
4	German (de) Erkältung		5 545
5	Russian (ru) Простуда		5 200
6	Spanish (es) Resfriado común		3 580
7	French (fr) Rhume		3 382
8	Japanese (ja) 風邪		2 630
9	Greek (el) Κοινό κρυολόγημα		1 586
10	Dutch (nl) Verkoudheid		1 206

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Common cold		1 166
2	German (de) Erkältung		402
3	French (fr) Rhume		192
4	Spanish (es) Resfriado común		183
5	Japanese (ja) 風邪		173
6	Italian (it) Raffreddore comune		149
7	Dutch (nl) Verkoudheid		133
8	Hebrew (he) הצטננות		114
9	Persian (fa) سرماخوردگی		101
10	Chinese (zh) 普通感冒		97

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) Common cold		8
2	Arabic (ar) زكام		3
3	French (fr) Rhume		3
4	Japanese (ja) 風邪		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Zökəm		1
6	Hindi (hi) ज़ुकाम		1
7	Lithuanian (lt) Peršalimas		1
8	Slovenian (sl) Prehlad		1
9	Chinese (zh) 普通感冒		1
10	Belarusian (be) Прастуда		0

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

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