February 26 incident

Quality:

February 26 Incident - failed 1936 coup d'état in Japan. Article “February 26 incident” in English Wikipedia has 98.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 146 references and 26 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “February 26 incident”, its content was written by 229 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1101 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 707 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3928 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2878 in February 2010
• Global: #7401 in February 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6100 in July 2022
• Global: #1090 in February 2016

There are 27 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	Chinese (zh) 二二六事件		100
2	German (de) Putschversuch in Japan vom 26. Februar 1936		100
3	Indonesian (id) Insiden 26 Februari		99.8093
4	English (en) February 26 incident		98.5667
5	Italian (it) Incidente del 26 febbraio		98.4961
6	Japanese (ja) 二・二六事件		89.0365
7	Estonian (et) 26. veebruari riigipöördekatse		31.427
8	Arabic (ar) حادثة 26 فبراير		30.9245
9	Russian (ru) Инцидент 26 февраля		30.1106
10	Ukrainian (uk) Інцидент 26 лютого		24.8531

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 二・二六事件		14 216 153
2	English (en) February 26 incident		2 007 996
3	Chinese (zh) 二二六事件		1 084 959
4	Russian (ru) Инцидент 26 февраля		215 443
5	German (de) Putschversuch in Japan vom 26. Februar 1936		119 495
6	Korean (ko) 2·26 사건		112 431
7	French (fr) Incident du 26 février		83 850
8	Spanish (es) Incidente del 26 de febrero		77 719
9	Italian (it) Incidente del 26 febbraio		58 146
10	Polish (pl) Incydent z 26 lutego		49 159

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 二・二六事件		45 919
2	English (en) February 26 incident		13 454
3	Chinese (zh) 二二六事件		8 401
4	Russian (ru) Инцидент 26 февраля		1 144
5	Spanish (es) Incidente del 26 de febrero		526
6	Italian (it) Incidente del 26 febbraio		476
7	French (fr) Incident du 26 février		379
8	German (de) Putschversuch in Japan vom 26. Februar 1936		322
9	Korean (ko) 2·26 사건		318
10	Polish (pl) Incydent z 26 lutego		158

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 二・二六事件		361
2	English (en) February 26 incident		229
3	Chinese (zh) 二二六事件		91
4	German (de) Putschversuch in Japan vom 26. Februar 1936		73
5	French (fr) Incident du 26 février		63
6	Russian (ru) Инцидент 26 февраля		46
7	Italian (it) Incidente del 26 febbraio		38
8	Korean (ko) 2·26 사건		37
9	Spanish (es) Incidente del 26 de febrero		31
10	Hebrew (he) מרד הנפל של 26 בפברואר 1936		20

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	Japanese (ja) 二・二六事件		2
2	Korean (ko) 2·26 사건		1
3	Thai (th) เหตุการณ์ 26 กุมภาพันธ์		1
4	Chinese (zh) 二二六事件		1
5	Arabic (ar) حادثة 26 فبراير		0
6	Czech (cs) Incident 26. února		0
7	German (de) Putschversuch in Japan vom 26. Februar 1936		0
8	Greek (el) Στρατιωτικό κίνημα στην Ιαπωνία (1936)		0
9	English (en) February 26 incident		0
10	Spanish (es) Incidente del 26 de febrero		0

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

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