February 26 incident

Quality:

February 26 Incident - failed 1936 coup d'état in Japan. Article “February 26 incident” in English Wikipedia has 98.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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.

In June 2026 the article “February 26 incident” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “February 26 incident”, its content was written by 242 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1155 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 757 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3740 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2880 in February 2010
• Global: #7407 in February 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6103 in July 2022
• Global: #1095 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, 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	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		99.7695
4	English (en) February 26 incident		98.3663
5	Italian (it) Incidente del 26 febbraio		98.1423
6	Japanese (ja) 二・二六事件		88.7261
7	Korean (ko) 2·26 사건		52.3648
8	Finnish (fi) Helmikuun 26. päivän välikohtaus		40.0795
9	Arabic (ar) حادثة 26 فبراير		30.8675
10	Estonian (et) 26. veebruari riigipöördekatse		30.3042

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		14 933 467
2	English (en) February 26 incident		2 203 032
3	Chinese (zh) 二二六事件		1 183 198
4	Russian (ru) Инцидент 26 февраля		235 852
5	German (de) Putschversuch in Japan vom 26. Februar 1936		135 023
6	Korean (ko) 2·26 사건		116 599
7	French (fr) Incident du 26 février		90 014
8	Spanish (es) Incidente del 26 de febrero		84 889
9	Italian (it) Incidente del 26 febbraio		63 946
10	Polish (pl) Incydent z 26 lutego		53 076

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		41 109
2	English (en) February 26 incident		13 091
3	Chinese (zh) 二二六事件		6 342
4	Russian (ru) Инцидент 26 февраля		992
5	German (de) Putschversuch in Japan vom 26. Februar 1936		488
6	Spanish (es) Incidente del 26 de febrero		458
7	Italian (it) Incidente del 26 febbraio		411
8	French (fr) Incident du 26 février		391
9	Korean (ko) 2·26 사건		304
10	Polish (pl) Incydent z 26 lutego		183

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		378
2	English (en) February 26 incident		242
3	Chinese (zh) 二二六事件		93
4	German (de) Putschversuch in Japan vom 26. Februar 1936		76
5	French (fr) Incident du 26 février		63
6	Russian (ru) Инцидент 26 февраля		49
7	Italian (it) Incidente del 26 febbraio		43
8	Korean (ko) 2·26 사건		38
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	German (de) Putschversuch in Japan vom 26. Februar 1936		3
2	English (en) February 26 incident		2
3	Italian (it) Incidente del 26 febbraio		2
4	Japanese (ja) 二・二六事件		1
5	Arabic (ar) حادثة 26 فبراير		0
6	Czech (cs) Incident 26. února		0
7	Greek (el) Στρατιωτικό κίνημα στην Ιαπωνία (1936)		0
8	Spanish (es) Incidente del 26 de febrero		0
9	Estonian (et) 26. veebruari riigipöördekatse		0
10	Persian (fa) حادثه ۲۶ فوریه		0

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

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