Pest

Quality:

Plague - specific contagious and frequently fatal human disease caused by Yersinia pestis. Article “Pest” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 19.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

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The 4424^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia.

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The 2499^th most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1615^th most popular in all topics.

The 1590^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7053^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Pest”, its content was written by 69 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia (2499^th place) and edited by 5506 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1590^th place).

The article is cited 399 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 35638 times in all languages (4738^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #174 in February 2015
• Global: #185 in March 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #97 in March 2020
• Global: #20 in March 2020

There are 51 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	Dutch (nl) Pest (ziekte)		99.2552
2	German (de) Pest		94.6667
3	Spanish (es) Peste		94.6013
4	Italian (it) Peste		93.7661
5	English (en) Plague (disease)		85.681
6	French (fr) Peste		84.2494
7	Hungarian (hu) Pestis		73.0159
8	Persian (fa) طاعون		64.1393
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Pest		63.2778
10	Ukrainian (uk) Чума		63.2734

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Чума		11 313 300
2	German (de) Pest		11 280 340
3	English (en) Plague (disease)		9 979 972
4	Japanese (ja) ペスト		7 188 562
5	French (fr) Peste		4 864 074
6	Italian (it) Peste		4 196 626
7	Polish (pl) Dżuma		3 991 676
8	Spanish (es) Peste		3 061 811
9	Dutch (nl) Pest (ziekte)		2 472 797
10	Arabic (ar) طاعون		1 921 731

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) Plague (disease)		25 773
2	German (de) Pest		21 230
3	Russian (ru) Чума		19 919
4	Japanese (ja) ペスト		9 242
5	Persian (fa) طاعون		7 965
6	French (fr) Peste		7 279
7	Polish (pl) Dżuma		4 897
8	Dutch (nl) Pest (ziekte)		4 369
9	Italian (it) Peste		4 121
10	Chinese (zh) 鼠疫		1 991

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plague (disease)		1 144
2	German (de) Pest		730
3	French (fr) Peste		377
4	Dutch (nl) Pest (ziekte)		347
5	Italian (it) Peste		321
6	Russian (ru) Чума		308
7	Spanish (es) Peste		163
8	Japanese (ja) ペスト		162
9	Hungarian (hu) Pestis		142
10	Hebrew (he) דבר (מחלה)		134

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	German (de) Pest		4
2	French (fr) Peste		2
3	Catalan (ca) Pesta		1
4	Danish (da) Pest		1
5	Greek (el) Πανώλη		1
6	English (en) Plague (disease)		1
7	Spanish (es) Peste		1
8	Estonian (et) Katk		1
9	Indonesian (id) Pes		1
10	Italian (it) Peste		1

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

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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