D.C. sniper attacks

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Beltway sniper attacks - The D.C. or Beltway sniper attacks were a series of coordinated shootings that took place over three weeks in October 2002 in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.. Article “D.C. sniper attacks” in English Wikipedia has 76 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 92 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.44 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “D.C. sniper attacks” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “D.C. sniper attacks”, its content was written by 737 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 949 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 221 times in English Wikipedia and cited 351 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5 in October 2002
• Global: #8 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #560 in November 2009
• Global: #1813 in November 2009

There are 11 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	Spanish (es) Tiroteos masivos en Washington D. C. en 2002		93.068
2	English (en) D.C. sniper attacks		75.9741
3	Tamil (ta) வாசிங்டன் டிசி மறைசுடுவீரர் தாக்குதல்		54.8019
4	Italian (it) Cecchino della Beltway		47.8322
5	Chinese (zh) 華盛頓特區狙擊手攻擊事件		18.3504
6	German (de) Beltway Sniper Attacks		18.2824
7	Dutch (nl) Sluipmoorden rond Washington		14.3299
8	Portuguese (pt) Ataques a tiros em Beltway		12.8731
9	Finnish (fi) Beltwayn ampumistapaukset		12.654
10	Korean (ko) D.C. 연속저격사건		9.6797

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) D.C. sniper attacks		11 888 661
2	German (de) Beltway Sniper Attacks		358 163
3	Dutch (nl) Sluipmoorden rond Washington		90 968
4	Chinese (zh) 華盛頓特區狙擊手攻擊事件		77 464
5	Italian (it) Cecchino della Beltway		45 055
6	Finnish (fi) Beltwayn ampumistapaukset		27 536
7	Simple English (simple) Beltway sniper attacks		11 622
8	Portuguese (pt) Ataques a tiros em Beltway		11 200
9	Spanish (es) Tiroteos masivos en Washington D. C. en 2002		4 812
10	Korean (ko) D.C. 연속저격사건		2 133

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) D.C. sniper attacks		54 770
2	German (de) Beltway Sniper Attacks		976
3	Chinese (zh) 華盛頓特區狙擊手攻擊事件		360
4	Spanish (es) Tiroteos masivos en Washington D. C. en 2002		297
5	Italian (it) Cecchino della Beltway		213
6	Dutch (nl) Sluipmoorden rond Washington		130
7	Portuguese (pt) Ataques a tiros em Beltway		73
8	Finnish (fi) Beltwayn ampumistapaukset		61
9	Simple English (simple) Beltway sniper attacks		42
10	Korean (ko) D.C. 연속저격사건		24

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) D.C. sniper attacks		737
2	German (de) Beltway Sniper Attacks		70
3	Dutch (nl) Sluipmoorden rond Washington		46
4	Italian (it) Cecchino della Beltway		37
5	Portuguese (pt) Ataques a tiros em Beltway		15
6	Simple English (simple) Beltway sniper attacks		13
7	Finnish (fi) Beltwayn ampumistapaukset		12
8	Chinese (zh) 華盛頓特區狙擊手攻擊事件		7
9	Spanish (es) Tiroteos masivos en Washington D. C. en 2002		6
10	Korean (ko) D.C. 연속저격사건		3

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) D.C. sniper attacks		3
2	Spanish (es) Tiroteos masivos en Washington D. C. en 2002		1
3	Italian (it) Cecchino della Beltway		1
4	German (de) Beltway Sniper Attacks		0
5	Finnish (fi) Beltwayn ampumistapaukset		0
6	Korean (ko) D.C. 연속저격사건		0
7	Dutch (nl) Sluipmoorden rond Washington		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Ataques a tiros em Beltway		0
9	Simple English (simple) Beltway sniper attacks		0
10	Tamil (ta) வாசிங்டன் டிசி மறைசுடுவீரர் தாக்குதல்		0

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

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