Pollution

Quality:

Pollution - introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Article “Pollution” in English Wikipedia has 92.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 123 references and 23 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 1837^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3860^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 567^th most popular in all topics.

The 1756^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Pollution” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Pollution”, its content was written by 1254 registered users of English Wikipedia (3860^th place) and edited by 5318 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1756^th place).

The article is cited 3606 times in English Wikipedia (8012^th place) and cited 21264 times in all languages (8100^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #133 in March 2010
• Global: #293 in March 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #529 in November 2014
• Global: #145 in May 2010

There are 53 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) Pollution		92.8656
2	Basque (eu) Kutsadura		91.9707
3	Uzbek (uz) Ifloslanish		87.653
4	Spanish (es) Contaminación		82.5515
5	Chinese (zh) 污染		81.1068
6	Arabic (ar) تلوث		71.3086
7	Tamil (ta) சுற்றுச்சூழல் மாசுபாடு		63.5487
8	Romanian (ro) Poluare		61.1392
9	French (fr) Pollution		57.6477
10	Turkish (tr) Çevre kirliliği		50.9469

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Contaminación		39 692 254
2	English (en) Pollution		34 755 671
3	French (fr) Pollution		7 430 771
4	Arabic (ar) تلوث		5 877 141
5	Hindi (hi) प्रदूषण		5 117 159
6	Portuguese (pt) Poluição		4 742 514
7	Simple English (simple) Pollution		3 637 669
8	Vietnamese (vi) Ô nhiễm môi trường		3 556 286
9	Italian (it) Inquinamento		3 031 885
10	Romanian (ro) Poluare		2 932 055

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) Pollution		17 524
2	Spanish (es) Contaminación		8 842
3	French (fr) Pollution		2 191
4	Simple English (simple) Pollution		1 067
5	Romanian (ro) Poluare		888
6	Russian (ru) Загрязнение		832
7	German (de) Umweltverschmutzung		799
8	Italian (it) Inquinamento		763
9	Chinese (zh) 污染		739
10	Turkish (tr) Çevre kirliliği		545

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pollution		1 254
2	Spanish (es) Contaminación		522
3	French (fr) Pollution		501
4	Italian (it) Inquinamento		309
5	German (de) Umweltverschmutzung		302
6	Portuguese (pt) Poluição		196
7	Arabic (ar) تلوث		192
8	Simple English (simple) Pollution		186
9	Turkish (tr) Çevre kirliliği		155
10	Hindi (hi) प्रदूषण		123

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	Spanish (es) Contaminación		8
2	Chinese (zh) 污染		4
3	Danish (da) Forurening		2
4	English (en) Pollution		2
5	Arabic (ar) تلوث		1
6	Basque (eu) Kutsadura		1
7	Romanian (ro) Poluare		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Ô nhiễm môi trường		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Çirklənmə		0
10	Belarusian (be) Забруджванне		0

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

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