Sinking of the MS Estonia

Quality:

Sinking of the MS Estonia - disaster on the Baltic Sea on 28 September 1994. Article “Sinking of the MS Estonia” in English Wikipedia has 66.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 73 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 11.67 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Sinking of the MS Estonia” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sinking of the MS Estonia”, its content was written by 90 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 681 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 309 times in English Wikipedia and cited 659 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2731 in May 2003
• Global: #3946 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #11687 in September 2024
• Global: #6101 in September 2024

There are 9 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	Russian (ru) Крушение парома «Эстония»		100
2	Estonian (et) Estonia katastroof		92.6573
3	Finnish (fi) Estonian uppoaminen		89.8059
4	Swedish (sv) Estoniakatastrofen		88.7122
5	English (en) Sinking of the MS Estonia		66.1199
6	Galician (gl) Naufraxio do MS Estonia		54.2422
7	Norwegian (no) «Estonia»-forliset		43.7941
8	Italian (it) Naufragio dell'Estonia		25.7123
9	Basque (eu) Estonia (naufragioa)		17.8537

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Swedish (sv) Estoniakatastrofen		2 070 995
2	Finnish (fi) Estonian uppoaminen		1 141 858
3	English (en) Sinking of the MS Estonia		997 511
4	Russian (ru) Крушение парома «Эстония»		487 626
5	Norwegian (no) «Estonia»-forliset		323 529
6	Estonian (et) Estonia katastroof		257 869
7	Italian (it) Naufragio dell'Estonia		43 149
8	Basque (eu) Estonia (naufragioa)		201
9	Galician (gl) Naufraxio do MS Estonia		117

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) Sinking of the MS Estonia		17 307
2	Russian (ru) Крушение парома «Эстония»		6 462
3	Finnish (fi) Estonian uppoaminen		3 245
4	Swedish (sv) Estoniakatastrofen		3 052
5	Norwegian (no) «Estonia»-forliset		1 236
6	Estonian (et) Estonia katastroof		1 061
7	Italian (it) Naufragio dell'Estonia		410
8	Galician (gl) Naufraxio do MS Estonia		11
9	Basque (eu) Estonia (naufragioa)		5

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Finnish (fi) Estonian uppoaminen		228
2	Swedish (sv) Estoniakatastrofen		201
3	English (en) Sinking of the MS Estonia		90
4	Norwegian (no) «Estonia»-forliset		69
5	Russian (ru) Крушение парома «Эстония»		39
6	Estonian (et) Estonia katastroof		34
7	Italian (it) Naufragio dell'Estonia		14
8	Basque (eu) Estonia (naufragioa)		3
9	Galician (gl) Naufraxio do MS Estonia		3

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) Sinking of the MS Estonia		2
2	Russian (ru) Крушение парома «Эстония»		2
3	Galician (gl) Naufraxio do MS Estonia		1
4	Swedish (sv) Estoniakatastrofen		1
5	Estonian (et) Estonia katastroof		0
6	Basque (eu) Estonia (naufragioa)		0
7	Finnish (fi) Estonian uppoaminen		0
8	Italian (it) Naufragio dell'Estonia		0
9	Norwegian (no) «Estonia»-forliset		0

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

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