Smallpox

Quality:

Smallpox - eradicated human disease. Article “Smallpox” in English Wikipedia has 98.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 375 references and 32 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2432^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 2695^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1237^th most popular in all topics.

The 2029^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8771^st most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 8617^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4025^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4964^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Smallpox” was edited by 9 authors in English Wikipedia (8617^th place) and written by 29 authors in all languages (4964^th place).

Since the creation of article “Smallpox”, its content was written by 1441 registered users of English Wikipedia (2695^th place) and edited by 5059 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (2029^th place).

The article is cited 4806 times in English Wikipedia (5225^th place) and cited 24703 times in all languages (6843^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #271 in June 2001
• Global: #292 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #208 in March 2020
• Global: #73 in March 2020

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	Korean (ko) 천연두		100
2	Turkish (tr) Çiçek hastalığı		100
3	Greek (el) Ευλογιά		100
4	Chinese (zh) 天花		99.9179
5	English (en) Smallpox		98.326
6	Vietnamese (vi) Đậu mùa		93.4748
7	Persian (fa) آبله		91.9199
8	German (de) Pocken		91.8958
9	Slovenian (sl) Črne koze		88.0762
10	Italian (it) Vaiolo		87.9172

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smallpox		30 644 117
2	Japanese (ja) 天然痘		8 221 528
3	Spanish (es) Viruela		7 617 039
4	Russian (ru) Натуральная оспа		6 571 211
5	German (de) Pocken		5 305 187
6	French (fr) Variole		5 000 644
7	Italian (it) Vaiolo		3 168 947
8	Portuguese (pt) Varíola		2 991 347
9	Chinese (zh) 天花		2 636 538
10	Polish (pl) Ospa prawdziwa		2 202 663

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) Smallpox		65 321
2	Russian (ru) Натуральная оспа		34 306
3	Japanese (ja) 天然痘		17 749
4	German (de) Pocken		11 810
5	French (fr) Variole		9 863
6	Chinese (zh) 天花		5 956
7	Spanish (es) Viruela		5 949
8	Italian (it) Vaiolo		4 538
9	Polish (pl) Ospa prawdziwa		3 146
10	Portuguese (pt) Varíola		2 170

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Smallpox		1 441
2	German (de) Pocken		432
3	French (fr) Variole		373
4	Russian (ru) Натуральная оспа		228
5	Spanish (es) Viruela		227
6	Japanese (ja) 天然痘		207
7	Italian (it) Vaiolo		163
8	Chinese (zh) 天花		156
9	Dutch (nl) Pokken		144
10	Hebrew (he) אבעבועות שחורות		133

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) Smallpox		9
2	Galician (gl) Varíola		3
3	Arabic (ar) جدري		2
4	German (de) Pocken		2
5	Spanish (es) Viruela		2
6	Portuguese (pt) Varíola		2
7	Chinese (zh) 天花		2
8	Catalan (ca) Verola		1
9	Danish (da) Kopper		1
10	Basque (eu) Baztanga		1

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.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information