Power outage

Quality:

Power outage - short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area. Article “Power outage” in English Wikipedia has 59.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 13 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Power outage”, its content was written by 291 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1466 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1166 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4305 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #102 in August 2003
• Global: #38 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17062 in November 2014
• Global: #4117 in March 2011

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 July 1, 2025 (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) Stromausfall		61.3627
2	English (en) Power outage		59.135
3	Dutch (nl) Stroomuitval		51.2962
4	Italian (it) Black out		40.8746
5	Czech (cs) Výpadek dodávky elektřiny		39.3612
6	Uzbek (uz) Elektr uzilishi		37.9129
7	Spanish (es) Apagón eléctrico		36.4831
8	Chinese (zh) 停電		36.4678
9	Portuguese (pt) Apagão		36.2855
10	Swedish (sv) Elavbrott		32.5729

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Power outage		3 370 946
2	Japanese (ja) 停電		714 876
3	German (de) Stromausfall		626 117
4	Spanish (es) Apagón eléctrico		442 971
5	Italian (it) Black out		422 633
6	Portuguese (pt) Apagão		351 935
7	Russian (ru) Авария в энергосистеме		304 811
8	French (fr) Panne de courant		168 982
9	Polish (pl) Awaria zasilania		147 922
10	Chinese (zh) 停電		146 275

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) Power outage		12 042
2	Spanish (es) Apagón eléctrico		2 331
3	German (de) Stromausfall		1 228
4	Italian (it) Black out		944
5	Japanese (ja) 停電		839
6	Russian (ru) Авария в энергосистеме		812
7	French (fr) Panne de courant		756
8	Portuguese (pt) Apagão		511
9	Indonesian (id) Mati listrik		508
10	Chinese (zh) 停電		399

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Power outage		291
2	German (de) Stromausfall		248
3	Japanese (ja) 停電		108
4	Dutch (nl) Stroomuitval		101
5	Spanish (es) Apagón eléctrico		85
6	Russian (ru) Авария в энергосистеме		83
7	French (fr) Panne de courant		81
8	Italian (it) Black out		77
9	Portuguese (pt) Apagão		51
10	Hebrew (he) הפסקת חשמל		40

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	Finnish (fi) Sähkökatkos		2
2	Russian (ru) Авария в энергосистеме		2
3	Basque (eu) Itzalaldi elektriko		1
4	Italian (it) Black out		1
5	Dutch (nl) Stroomuitval		1
6	Arabic (ar) انقطاع الطاقة		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Cərəyanın kəsilməsi		0
8	Czech (cs) Výpadek dodávky elektřiny		0
9	Danish (da) Strømsvigt		0
10	German (de) Stromausfall		0

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

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