Dam failure

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Dam failure

Quality:

Dam failure - catastrophic failure of dam barrier by uncontrolled release of water. Article “Dam failure” in English Wikipedia has 54.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 53 references and 7 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Dam failure” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Dam failure”, its content was written by 213 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 456 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 279 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2304 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #6622 in June 2023
  • Global: #10325 in June 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #23823 in February 2017
  • Global: #41881 in February 2017

There are 15 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Chinese (zh)
水壩潰決
55.147
2English (en)
Dam failure
54.7341
3Spanish (es)
Rotura de presa
29.0391
4German (de)
Dammbruch
24.7831
5Ukrainian (uk)
Руйнування греблі
23.9663
6French (fr)
Rupture de barrage
19.3816
7Arabic (ar)
تحطم السدود
18.8405
8Indonesian (id)
Kebobolan bendungan
17.9469
9Romanian (ro)
Rupere a barajului
17.8776
10Vietnamese (vi)
Vỡ đập
15.1377
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Dam failure" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Dam failure
1 753 124
2French (fr)
Rupture de barrage
221 492
3German (de)
Dammbruch
168 583
4Spanish (es)
Rotura de presa
163 895
5Chinese (zh)
水壩潰決
100 558
6Czech (cs)
Selhání přehrad
35 622
7Thai (th)
การวิบัติของเขื่อน
29 695
8Lithuanian (lt)
Užtvankos griūtis
4 999
9Vietnamese (vi)
Vỡ đập
2 564
10Indonesian (id)
Kebobolan bendungan
2 372
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Dam failure" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Dam failure
5 096
2French (fr)
Rupture de barrage
1 076
3Chinese (zh)
水壩潰決
461
4German (de)
Dammbruch
360
5Spanish (es)
Rotura de presa
338
6Czech (cs)
Selhání přehrad
109
7Lithuanian (lt)
Užtvankos griūtis
105
8Thai (th)
การวิบัติของเขื่อน
67
9Romanian (ro)
Rupere a barajului
58
10Indonesian (id)
Kebobolan bendungan
22
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Dam failure" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Dam failure
213
2French (fr)
Rupture de barrage
64
3German (de)
Dammbruch
61
4Spanish (es)
Rotura de presa
35
5Chinese (zh)
水壩潰決
28
6Czech (cs)
Selhání přehrad
21
7Thai (th)
การวิบัติของเขื่อน
8
8Indonesian (id)
Kebobolan bendungan
6
9Vietnamese (vi)
Vỡ đập
6
10Ukrainian (uk)
Руйнування греблі
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Dam failure" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
تحطم السدود
3
2English (en)
Dam failure
1
3Indonesian (id)
Kebobolan bendungan
1
4Belarusian (be)
Разбурэнне дамбы
0
5Czech (cs)
Selhání přehrad
0
6German (de)
Dammbruch
0
7Spanish (es)
Rotura de presa
0
8French (fr)
Rupture de barrage
0
9Lithuanian (lt)
Užtvankos griūtis
0
10Dutch (nl)
Dambreuk
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Dam failure" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
Rupture de barrage
1 693
2English (en)
Dam failure
279
3German (de)
Dammbruch
140
4Chinese (zh)
水壩潰決
73
5Arabic (ar)
تحطم السدود
45
6Spanish (es)
Rotura de presa
21
7Romanian (ro)
Rupere a barajului
15
8Thai (th)
การวิบัติของเขื่อน
7
9Czech (cs)
Selhání přehrad
6
10Indonesian (id)
Kebobolan bendungan
6
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تحطم السدود
beBelarusian
Разбурэнне дамбы
csCzech
Selhání přehrad
deGerman
Dammbruch
enEnglish
Dam failure
esSpanish
Rotura de presa
frFrench
Rupture de barrage
idIndonesian
Kebobolan bendungan
ltLithuanian
Užtvankos griūtis
nlDutch
Dambreuk
roRomanian
Rupere a barajului
thThai
การวิบัติของเขื่อน
ukUkrainian
Руйнування греблі
viVietnamese
Vỡ đập
zhChinese
水壩潰決

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#23823
02.2017
Global:
#41881
02.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#6622
06.2023
Global:
#10325
06.2023

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Dam failure from Wikipedia articles about St. Francis Dam, Dam, Vega de Tera disaster, Lists of disasters and Malpasset Dam. Whereas reading the article about Dam failure people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Teton Dam, 1975 Banqiao Dam failure, Vajont Dam, 2023 Derna floods and Vega de Tera disaster.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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