January 6 United States Capitol attack

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January 6 United States Capitol attack - 2021 attempt to prevent presidential electoral vote count. This event is the 298^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 158^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. On English Wikipedia article about January 6 United States Capitol attack recently has been very popular. Article "January 6 United States Capitol attack" in English Wikipedia has 90 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 840 references and 52 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8579^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 1183^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 158^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4164^th most popular in AI.

The 298^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 609^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1052^nd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1064^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1267^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "January 6 United States Capitol attack" was edited by 28 authors in English Wikipedia (1052^nd place) and written by 65 authors in all languages (1267^th place).

Since the creation of article "January 6 United States Capitol attack", its content was written by 1801 registered users of English Wikipedia (1183^rd place) and edited by 3747 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4164^th place).

January 6 United States Capitol attack is on the 158^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 298^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 3397 times in English Wikipedia (7567^th place) and cited 7032 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in January 2021
• Global: #1 in January 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12 in January 2021
• Global: #19 in January 2021

There are 44 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Sturm auf das Kapitol in Washington 2021		100
2	Japanese (ja) 2021年アメリカ合衆国議会議事堂襲撃事件		99.7006
3	Korean (ko) 2021년 미국 국회의사당 습격		98.2384
4	Hungarian (hu) Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok Capitoliumának ostroma		95
5	Vietnamese (vi) Bạo loạn tại Điện Capitol Hoa Kỳ 2021		94.6726
6	Norwegian (no) Stormingen av den amerikanske kongressen 2021		94.4941
7	Indonesian (id) Penyerbuan Gedung Kapitol 2021		93.9136
8	Chinese (zh) 国会山骚乱		93.862
9	Portuguese (pt) Ataque ao Capitólio dos Estados Unidos em 2021		90.8
10	Malay (ms) Serangan Kapitol Amerika Syarikat 2021		90.6667

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) January 6 United States Capitol attack		14 378 826
2	German (de) Sturm auf das Kapitol in Washington 2021		804 819
3	Russian (ru) Захват Капитолия США (2021)		529 597
4	Japanese (ja) 2021年アメリカ合衆国議会議事堂襲撃事件		407 911
5	French (fr) Assaut du Capitole par des partisans de Donald Trump		388 431
6	Spanish (es) Asalto al Capitolio de los Estados Unidos de 2021		361 681
7	Chinese (zh) 国会山骚乱		330 957
8	Italian (it) Assalto al Campidoglio degli Stati Uniti d'America del 2021		225 899
9	Polish (pl) Atak na Kapitol Stanów Zjednoczonych		124 359
10	Portuguese (pt) Ataque ao Capitólio dos Estados Unidos em 2021		121 050

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) January 6 United States Capitol attack		384 208
2	German (de) Sturm auf das Kapitol in Washington 2021		19 471
3	Japanese (ja) 2021年アメリカ合衆国議会議事堂襲撃事件		15 583
4	Russian (ru) Захват Капитолия США (2021)		14 298
5	Chinese (zh) 国会山骚乱		13 789
6	Spanish (es) Asalto al Capitolio de los Estados Unidos de 2021		10 628
7	Italian (it) Assalto al Campidoglio degli Stati Uniti d'America del 2021		10 388
8	French (fr) Assaut du Capitole par des partisans de Donald Trump		9 679
9	Polish (pl) Atak na Kapitol Stanów Zjednoczonych		6 122
10	Dutch (nl) Bestorming van het Amerikaanse Capitool in 2021		2 600

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) January 6 United States Capitol attack		1 801
2	German (de) Sturm auf das Kapitol in Washington 2021		378
3	French (fr) Assaut du Capitole par des partisans de Donald Trump		212
4	Chinese (zh) 国会山骚乱		137
5	Spanish (es) Asalto al Capitolio de los Estados Unidos de 2021		117
6	Russian (ru) Захват Капитолия США (2021)		110
7	Japanese (ja) 2021年アメリカ合衆国議会議事堂襲撃事件		98
8	Italian (it) Assalto al Campidoglio degli Stati Uniti d'America del 2021		88
9	Hebrew (he) ההסתערות על הקפיטול (2021)		73
10	Dutch (nl) Bestorming van het Amerikaanse Capitool in 2021		65

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) January 6 United States Capitol attack		28
2	German (de) Sturm auf das Kapitol in Washington 2021		8
3	French (fr) Assaut du Capitole par des partisans de Donald Trump		6
4	Russian (ru) Захват Капитолия США (2021)		3
5	Simple English (simple) January 6 United States Capitol attack		3
6	Persian (fa) یورش ۲۰۲۱ به کاخ کنگره ایالات متحده		2
7	Japanese (ja) 2021年アメリカ合衆国議会議事堂襲撃事件		2
8	Polish (pl) Atak na Kapitol Stanów Zjednoczonych		2
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Upad u Kapitol Sjedinjenih Država 6. januara 2021.		2
10	Arabic (ar) اقتحام كابيتول الولايات المتحدة 2021		1

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

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