Extinction event

Quality:

Extinction event - widespread and rapid decrease in the amount of life on earth. Article “Extinction event” in English Wikipedia has 94.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 258 references and 26 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Extinction event” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Extinction event”, its content was written by 707 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2337 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1149 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6544 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #382 in November 2001
• Global: #434 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7217 in April 2015
• Global: #7846 in June 2015

There are 45 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	German (de) Massenaussterben		99.0553
2	English (en) Extinction event		94.0853
3	Russian (ru) Массовое вымирание		92.4615
4	Portuguese (pt) Extinção em massa		89.199
5	Croatian (hr) Masovna izumiranja		86.4741
6	Basque (eu) Iraungipen masibo		85
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Masovna izumiranja		73.2499
8	Estonian (et) Massiline väljasuremine		71.2472
9	Galician (gl) Extinción en masa		67.8397
10	Korean (ko) 대멸종		55.9742

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Extinction event		10 426 708
2	Japanese (ja) 大量絶滅		2 584 361
3	Spanish (es) Extinción masiva		1 955 415
4	German (de) Massenaussterben		1 517 970
5	French (fr) Extinction massive		1 022 121
6	Russian (ru) Массовое вымирание		1 000 278
7	Chinese (zh) 生物集群灭绝		697 659
8	Italian (it) Estinzione di massa		617 154
9	Portuguese (pt) Extinção em massa		459 227
10	Polish (pl) Masowe wymieranie		447 026

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) Extinction event		29 870
2	Japanese (ja) 大量絶滅		7 315
3	German (de) Massenaussterben		4 946
4	Russian (ru) Массовое вымирание		4 495
5	French (fr) Extinction massive		3 816
6	Spanish (es) Extinción masiva		2 605
7	Chinese (zh) 生物集群灭绝		2 552
8	Italian (it) Estinzione di massa		1 955
9	Polish (pl) Masowe wymieranie		1 298
10	Portuguese (pt) Extinção em massa		916

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Extinction event		707
2	German (de) Massenaussterben		264
3	French (fr) Extinction massive		171
4	Spanish (es) Extinción masiva		107
5	Italian (it) Estinzione di massa		89
6	Japanese (ja) 大量絶滅		89
7	Hebrew (he) הכחדה המונית		72
8	Portuguese (pt) Extinção em massa		71
9	Dutch (nl) Massa-extinctie		68
10	Chinese (zh) 生物集群灭绝		64

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	German (de) Massenaussterben		4
2	Hebrew (he) הכחדה המונית		3
3	English (en) Extinction event		2
4	Chinese (zh) 生物集群灭绝		2
5	Arabic (ar) حدث الانقراض		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Yox olma hadisəsi		1
7	Bulgarian (bg) Масово измиране		1
8	Catalan (ca) Extinció massiva		1
9	Esperanto (eo) Amasa formorto		1
10	Basque (eu) Iraungipen masibo		1

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

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