Hand washing

Quality:

Hand washing - act of cleaning one's hands. Article “Hand washing” in English Wikipedia has 96 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 145 references and 30 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Hand washing” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Hand washing”, its content was written by 559 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1295 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 563 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3390 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #875 in March 2020
• Global: #352 in March 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6147 in March 2020
• Global: #7475 in March 2020

There are 39 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	English (en) Hand washing		95.9918
2	Russian (ru) Мытьё рук		93.3136
3	Turkish (tr) El yıkama		85.6747
4	Indonesian (id) Mencuci tangan		70.701
5	Ukrainian (uk) Миття рук		65.7243
6	Malay (ms) Membasuh tangan		63.5776
7	Vietnamese (vi) Rửa tay		57.0927
8	Hungarian (hu) Kézmosás		52.5791
9	German (de) Händewaschen		52.275
10	Arabic (ar) غسل اليدين		48.7242

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hand washing		3 244 290
2	Spanish (es) Higiene de manos		1 125 586
3	French (fr) Hygiène des mains		570 337
4	Indonesian (id) Mencuci tangan		536 205
5	Arabic (ar) غسل اليدين		215 564
6	Japanese (ja) 手洗い		181 637
7	Russian (ru) Мытьё рук		170 607
8	German (de) Händewaschen		105 606
9	Persian (fa) شستن دست‌ها		65 726
10	Hindi (hi) हाथ धोना		44 589

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) Hand washing		3 677
2	Spanish (es) Higiene de manos		520
3	Russian (ru) Мытьё рук		477
4	Persian (fa) شستن دست‌ها		350
5	Japanese (ja) 手洗い		266
6	French (fr) Hygiène des mains		200
7	German (de) Händewaschen		191
8	Italian (it) Lavaggio delle mani		138
9	Chinese (zh) 洗手		129
10	Turkish (tr) El yıkama		84

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hand washing		559
2	French (fr) Hygiène des mains		107
3	Spanish (es) Higiene de manos		87
4	German (de) Händewaschen		60
5	Russian (ru) Мытьё рук		40
6	Japanese (ja) 手洗い		39
7	Simple English (simple) Hand washing		35
8	Indonesian (id) Mencuci tangan		32
9	Swedish (sv) Handhygien		28
10	Arabic (ar) غسل اليدين		25

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) Hand washing		2
2	Italian (it) Lavaggio delle mani		2
3	Persian (fa) شستن دست‌ها		1
4	French (fr) Hygiène des mains		1
5	Indonesian (id) Mencuci tangan		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Миття рук		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Rửa tay		1
8	Arabic (ar) غسل اليدين		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Миене на ръце		0
10	Catalan (ca) Higiene de mans		0

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

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