Independence Day

Quality:

Independence Day - 1996 film directed by Roland Emmerich. This film is the 440^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of films and the 257^th most popular film in Basque Wikipedia. Article “Independence Day” in Basque Wikipedia has 4.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Basque) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Basque Wikipedia:

The 257^th most popular in films in Basque Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8301^st most popular in all topics.

The 6167^th most popular in AI.

The 440^th most popular in films.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6429^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4644^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Independence Day” was edited by 1 authors in Basque Wikipedia and written by 30 authors in all languages (4644^th place).

Since the creation of article “Independence Day”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Basque Wikipedia and edited by 3256 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6167^th place).

Independence Day is on the 257^th place in local ranking of films in Basque Wikipedia and on the 440^th place in global ranking of films in all the time.

The article is cited 13 times in Basque Wikipedia and cited 5863 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Basque): #193 in May 2019
• Global: #577 in June 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Basque): #13856 in March 2012
• Global: #165 in July 2016

There are 46 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) Independence Day (1996 film)		86.593
2	Portuguese (pt) Independence Day		84.4894
3	Chinese (zh) 天煞-地球反擊戰		56.2048
4	French (fr) Independence Day (film, 1996)		47.4428
5	Slovenian (sl) Dan neodvisnosti (film)		45.1158
6	Spanish (es) Independence Day		42.0846
7	German (de) Independence Day (1996)		40.9326
8	Arabic (ar) يوم الاستقلال (فلم)		40.1442
9	Armenian (hy) Անկախության օրը (ֆիլմ)		39.266
10	Urdu (ur) انڈی پینڈنس ڈے (1996ء کی فلم)		38.4689

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Independence Day (1996 film)		14 653 065
2	Japanese (ja) インデペンデンス・デイ		4 212 953
3	German (de) Independence Day (1996)		3 368 643
4	Spanish (es) Independence Day		2 165 937
5	French (fr) Independence Day (film, 1996)		1 585 432
6	Italian (it) Independence Day		1 190 527
7	Chinese (zh) 天煞-地球反擊戰		997 627
8	Russian (ru) День независимости (фильм, 1996)		769 171
9	Portuguese (pt) Independence Day		765 818
10	Polish (pl) Dzień Niepodległości (film)		297 822

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) Independence Day (1996 film)		83 900
2	Japanese (ja) インデペンデンス・デイ		10 268
3	French (fr) Independence Day (film, 1996)		8 909
4	German (de) Independence Day (1996)		6 906
5	Russian (ru) День независимости (фильм, 1996)		4 718
6	Chinese (zh) 天煞-地球反擊戰		4 665
7	Spanish (es) Independence Day		3 581
8	Italian (it) Independence Day		3 372
9	Portuguese (pt) Independence Day		1 562
10	Polish (pl) Dzień Niepodległości (film)		1 268

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Independence Day (1996 film)		1 256
2	German (de) Independence Day (1996)		228
3	French (fr) Independence Day (film, 1996)		195
4	Japanese (ja) インデペンデンス・デイ		193
5	Italian (it) Independence Day		177
6	Spanish (es) Independence Day		135
7	Russian (ru) День независимости (фильм, 1996)		115
8	Chinese (zh) 天煞-地球反擊戰		103
9	Dutch (nl) Independence Day (film)		72
10	Hebrew (he) היום השלישי		70

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) Independence Day (1996 film)		15
2	French (fr) Independence Day (film, 1996)		4
3	Lithuanian (lt) Nepriklausomybės diena (filmas)		2
4	Arabic (ar) يوم الاستقلال (فلم)		1
5	Belarusian (be) Дзень незалежнасці (фільм, 1996)		1
6	Basque (eu) Independence Day		1
7	Italian (it) Independence Day		1
8	Japanese (ja) インデペンデンス・デイ		1
9	Polish (pl) Dzień Niepodległości (film)		1
10	Romanian (ro) Ziua Independenței (film)		1

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

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