Mayday

Quality:

Mayday - emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal. Article "Mayday" in English Wikipedia has 34.1 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 18 references and 9 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Mayday", its content was written by 304 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1168 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 282 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1236 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #2051 in November 2002
  • Global: #1968 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #5215 in May 2020
  • Global: #6344 in February 2015

There are 33 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Turkish (tr)
Mayday
44.2461
2Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Mayday
37.7004
3English (en)
Mayday
34.1073
4German (de)
Mayday (Notruf)
33.8185
5Catalan (ca)
Mayday
28.8631
6Hebrew (he)
Mayday
27.0003
7Korean (ko)
메이데이
24.1432
8Urdu (ur)
مے ڈے
23.5184
9Ukrainian (uk)
Mayday
22.5065
10Dutch (nl)
Mayday (radiosignaal)
19.4745
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Mayday" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Mayday
6 228 676
2Spanish (es)
Mayday
1 363 688
3Russian (ru)
Mayday (сигнал бедствия)
1 233 736
4French (fr)
Mayday
1 201 820
5German (de)
Mayday (Notruf)
1 150 694
6Japanese (ja)
メーデー (遭難信号)
1 067 923
7Chinese (zh)
Mayday
784 906
8Italian (it)
Mayday
777 702
9Polish (pl)
Mayday
346 364
10Portuguese (pt)
Mayday
301 671
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Mayday" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Mayday
18 524
2Russian (ru)
Mayday (сигнал бедствия)
6 388
3French (fr)
Mayday
5 968
4German (de)
Mayday (Notruf)
4 360
5Spanish (es)
Mayday
4 335
6Japanese (ja)
メーデー (遭難信号)
3 768
7Italian (it)
Mayday
2 430
8Chinese (zh)
Mayday
2 173
9Polish (pl)
Mayday
1 222
10Korean (ko)
메이데이
973
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Mayday" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Mayday
304
2German (de)
Mayday (Notruf)
151
3French (fr)
Mayday
91
4Dutch (nl)
Mayday (radiosignaal)
56
5Russian (ru)
Mayday (сигнал бедствия)
55
6Spanish (es)
Mayday
52
7Italian (it)
Mayday
52
8Polish (pl)
Mayday
45
9Finnish (fi)
Mayday
42
10Chinese (zh)
Mayday
42
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Mayday" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Mayday (Notruf)
1
2Arabic (ar)
ماي داي
0
3Belarusian (be)
Mayday (сігнал бедства)
0
4Catalan (ca)
Mayday
0
5Czech (cs)
Mayday
0
6Danish (da)
Mayday
0
7English (en)
Mayday
0
8Spanish (es)
Mayday
0
9Estonian (et)
Mayday
0
10Basque (eu)
Mayday
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Mayday" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Mayday
282
2French (fr)
Mayday
131
3Turkish (tr)
Mayday
119
4German (de)
Mayday (Notruf)
95
5Italian (it)
Mayday
81
6Japanese (ja)
メーデー (遭難信号)
66
7Spanish (es)
Mayday
56
8Russian (ru)
Mayday (сигнал бедствия)
48
9Chinese (zh)
Mayday
39
10Dutch (nl)
Mayday (radiosignaal)
32
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
ماي داي
beBelarusian
Mayday (сігнал бедства)
caCatalan
Mayday
csCzech
Mayday
daDanish
Mayday
deGerman
Mayday (Notruf)
enEnglish
Mayday
esSpanish
Mayday
etEstonian
Mayday
euBasque
Mayday
faPersian
می‌دی
fiFinnish
Mayday
frFrench
Mayday
glGalician
Mayday
heHebrew
Mayday
huHungarian
Mayday (vészjelzés)
idIndonesian
Mayday (tanda bahaya)
itItalian
Mayday
jaJapanese
メーデー (遭難信号)
koKorean
메이데이
nlDutch
Mayday (radiosignaal)
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Mayday
noNorwegian
Mayday
plPolish
Mayday
ptPortuguese
Mayday
ruRussian
Mayday (сигнал бедствия)
svSwedish
Mayday
thThai
เมย์เดย์ (สัญญาณ)
trTurkish
Mayday
ukUkrainian
Mayday
urUrdu
مے ڈے
viVietnamese
Mayday (tín hiệu báo nguy)
zhChinese
Mayday

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#5215
05.2020
Global:
#6344
02.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#2051
11.2002
Global:
#1968
11.2002

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Mayday from Wikipedia articles about SOS, Pan-pan, Mayday, Distress signal and CQD. Whereas reading the article about Mayday people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Pan-pan, SOS, Distress signal, Jianmao 9 and Mayday.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Mayday
es: Mayday
fr: Mayday
zh: Mayday
it: Mayday
pl: Mayday
pt: Mayday
tr: Mayday
sv: Mayday
cs: Mayday
fi: Mayday
da: Mayday
uk: Mayday
he: Mayday
no: Mayday
ca: Mayday
et: Mayday
gl: Mayday
eu: Mayday
nn: Mayday

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