May Day

Quality:

May Day - ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday. This event is the 362^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 166^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “May Day” in English Wikipedia has 76.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 83 references and 32 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.47 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 8151^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 6837^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 166^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 362^nd most popular in events.

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

Since the creation of article “May Day”, its content was written by 1003 registered users of English Wikipedia (6837^th place) and edited by 1447 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

May Day is on the 166^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 362^nd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1566 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3069 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #260 in May 2014
• Global: #1400 in May 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #153 in May 2014
• Global: #619 in May 2017

There are 23 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) May Day		76.2017
2	Spanish (es) Festividad de los Mayos		56.0422
3	Chinese (zh) 五朔節		49.8914
4	Hindi (hi) मई दिवस		47.8871
5	Russian (ru) Первомайские обычаи		42.3949
6	Galician (gl) Festa dos maios		38.6109
7	Italian (it) Calendimaggio		36.6165
8	Ukrainian (uk) Травневе свято		36.2664
9	French (fr) Fêtes de mai		33.7403
10	Latin (la) Kalendae Maiae		33

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) May Day		16 416 578
2	Hindi (hi) मई दिवस		491 111
3	Spanish (es) Festividad de los Mayos		489 610
4	Czech (cs) První máj (svátek zamilovaných)		365 530
5	Japanese (ja) ヨーロッパの五月祭		316 833
6	German (de) Brauchtum im Mai		237 698
7	Italian (it) Calendimaggio		235 412
8	Greek (el) Πρωτομαγιά		217 591
9	Chinese (zh) 五朔節		102 446
10	Serbian (sr) Први мај		97 976

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) May Day		15 623
2	Japanese (ja) ヨーロッパの五月祭		1 019
3	Italian (it) Calendimaggio		554
4	Spanish (es) Festividad de los Mayos		491
5	Chinese (zh) 五朔節		382
6	German (de) Brauchtum im Mai		223
7	Polish (pl) Gaik (święto)		216
8	French (fr) Fêtes de mai		192
9	Russian (ru) Первомайские обычаи		125
10	Czech (cs) První máj (svátek zamilovaných)		104

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) May Day		1 003
2	Spanish (es) Festividad de los Mayos		100
3	Italian (it) Calendimaggio		60
4	Hindi (hi) मई दिवस		36
5	Serbian (sr) Први мај		30
6	Japanese (ja) ヨーロッパの五月祭		25
7	Polish (pl) Gaik (święto)		24
8	Galician (gl) Festa dos maios		23
9	German (de) Brauchtum im Mai		22
10	Greek (el) Πρωτομαγιά		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	English (en) May Day		2
2	French (fr) Fêtes de mai		2
3	German (de) Brauchtum im Mai		1
4	Greek (el) Πρωτομαγιά		1
5	Italian (it) Calendimaggio		1
6	Japanese (ja) ヨーロッパの五月祭		1
7	Russian (ru) Первомайские обычаи		1
8	Arabic (ar) يوم مايو		0
9	Czech (cs) První máj (svátek zamilovaných)		0
10	Spanish (es) Festividad de los Mayos		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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