Mayday

Quality:

Mayday - emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal. Article “Mayday” in Finnish Wikipedia has 8.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 3061^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Mayday”, its content was written by 42 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia and edited by 1213 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 22 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 1357 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Finnish): #511 in January 2020
• Global: #1963 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Finnish): #4376 in September 2019
• Global: #3061 in June 2025

There are 35 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	Turkish (tr) Mayday		45.6939
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Mayday		40.0815
3	German (de) Mayday (Notruf)		33.8227
4	English (en) Mayday		33.3058
5	Catalan (ca) Mayday		28.857
6	Esperanto (eo) Mayday		27.3866
7	Hebrew (he) Mayday		26.9499
8	Korean (ko) 메이데이		24.1423
9	Urdu (ur) مے ڈے		21.7797
10	Ukrainian (uk) Mayday		21.2077

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mayday		6 602 099
2	Spanish (es) Mayday		1 402 029
3	Russian (ru) Mayday (сигнал бедствия)		1 320 785
4	French (fr) Mayday		1 260 878
5	German (de) Mayday (Notruf)		1 199 485
6	Japanese (ja) メーデー (遭難信号)		1 125 056
7	Chinese (zh) Mayday		843 979
8	Italian (it) Mayday		801 683
9	Polish (pl) Mayday		364 100
10	Portuguese (pt) Mayday		322 683

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) Mayday		161 280
2	French (fr) Mayday		10 431
3	Portuguese (pt) Mayday		9 641
4	Russian (ru) Mayday (сигнал бедствия)		7 930
5	Japanese (ja) メーデー (遭難信号)		7 826
6	Chinese (zh) Mayday		7 184
7	German (de) Mayday (Notruf)		6 924
8	Spanish (es) Mayday		4 641
9	Tamil (ta) மேடே		3 870
10	Polish (pl) Mayday		3 262

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mayday		308
2	German (de) Mayday (Notruf)		156
3	French (fr) Mayday		99
4	Dutch (nl) Mayday (radiosignaal)		56
5	Russian (ru) Mayday (сигнал бедствия)		55
6	Spanish (es) Mayday		54
7	Italian (it) Mayday		54
8	Polish (pl) Mayday		46
9	Chinese (zh) Mayday		43
10	Finnish (fi) Mayday		42

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	Tamil (ta) மேடே		3
2	English (en) Mayday		2
3	Esperanto (eo) Mayday		2
4	Spanish (es) Mayday		2
5	Hebrew (he) Mayday		2
6	German (de) Mayday (Notruf)		1
7	Turkish (tr) Mayday		1
8	Arabic (ar) ماي داي		0
9	Belarusian (be) Mayday (сігнал бедства)		0
10	Catalan (ca) Mayday		0

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

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