Spanish flu

Quality:

1918–1920 flu pandemic - 1918–1920 global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. Article “Spanish flu” in English Wikipedia has 98 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 518 references and 37 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 910^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 2208^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 615^th most popular in all topics.

The 1797^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7680^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Spanish flu”, its content was written by 1533 registered users of English Wikipedia (2208^th place) and edited by 5278 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1797^th place).

The article is cited 3953 times in English Wikipedia (6988^th place) and cited 15274 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #84 in March 2020
• Global: #13 in April 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4 in March 2020
• Global: #3 in April 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	German (de) Spanische Grippe		100
2	Azerbaijani (az) İspan qripi		97.9869
3	English (en) Spanish flu		97.9577
4	Portuguese (pt) Gripe espanhola		97.5926
5	Thai (th) ไข้หวัดใหญ่สเปน		91.8823
6	Ukrainian (uk) Іспанський грип		86.4771
7	Chinese (zh) 西班牙流感		83.6071
8	Italian (it) Influenza spagnola		82.406
9	Czech (cs) Španělská chřipka		81.22
10	Norwegian (no) Spanskesyken		78.9359

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spanish flu		47 849 698
2	German (de) Spanische Grippe		11 492 786
3	Spanish (es) Pandemia de gripe de 1918		9 414 132
4	French (fr) Grippe espagnole		7 512 428
5	Russian (ru) Испанский грипп		6 925 111
6	Japanese (ja) スペインかぜ		6 779 645
7	Italian (it) Influenza spagnola		6 544 103
8	Portuguese (pt) Gripe espanhola		4 267 626
9	Dutch (nl) Spaanse griep		2 322 988
10	Swedish (sv) Spanska sjukan		2 250 362

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) Spanish flu		53 620
2	German (de) Spanische Grippe		8 213
3	Spanish (es) Pandemia de gripe de 1918		7 207
4	Japanese (ja) スペインかぜ		6 854
5	French (fr) Grippe espagnole		6 729
6	Russian (ru) Испанский грипп		5 763
7	Italian (it) Influenza spagnola		5 341
8	Portuguese (pt) Gripe espanhola		3 674
9	Swedish (sv) Spanska sjukan		2 613
10	Polish (pl) Pandemia grypy hiszpanki		2 326

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Spanish flu		1 533
2	German (de) Spanische Grippe		490
3	French (fr) Grippe espagnole		458
4	Spanish (es) Pandemia de gripe de 1918		309
5	Italian (it) Influenza spagnola		225
6	Russian (ru) Испанский грипп		203
7	Japanese (ja) スペインかぜ		179
8	Dutch (nl) Spaanse griep		176
9	Chinese (zh) 西班牙流感		136
10	Portuguese (pt) Gripe espanhola		125

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	Azerbaijani (az) İspan qripi		3
2	French (fr) Grippe espagnole		2
3	Hungarian (hu) Spanyolnátha		2
4	Arabic (ar) الإنفلونزا الإسبانية		1
5	Belarusian (be) Іспанскі грып		1
6	Catalan (ca) Pandèmia de grip de 1918		1
7	Basque (eu) Espainiako gripea		1
8	Japanese (ja) スペインかぜ		1
9	Russian (ru) Испанский грипп		1
10	Simple English (simple) Influenza pandemic of 1918		1

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

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