2009 Victorian bushfires

Quality:

Black Saturday bushfires - bushfires that occurred in February 2009 in Victoria, Australia. Article “2009 Victorian bushfires” in Simple English Wikipedia has 99.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 137 references and 15 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “2009 Victorian bushfires”, its content was written by 74 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1199^th place) and edited by 1200 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 780 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #41 in December 2017
• Global: #7 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #511 in March 2009
• Global: #1095 in February 2009

There are 24 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	Simple English (simple) 2009 Victorian bushfires		99.322
2	Spanish (es) Incendios forestales en Victoria de febrero de 2009		91.4286
3	English (en) Black Saturday bushfires		90.0369
4	German (de) Buschfeuer in Victoria 2009		72.0211
5	Malay (ms) Kebakaran hutan Victoria 2009		43.842
6	Polish (pl) Pożary buszu w Wiktorii (2009)		38.344
7	Chinese (zh) 2009年维多利亚森林大火		35.7449
8	Finnish (fi) Australian maastopalot 2009		31.5178
9	Russian (ru) Лесные пожары в Австралии (2009)		29.2912
10	Ukrainian (uk) Лісові пожежі в Австралії (2009)		26.5417

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Saturday bushfires		5 095 483
2	Simple English (simple) 2009 Victorian bushfires		120 283
3	German (de) Buschfeuer in Victoria 2009		108 340
4	Spanish (es) Incendios forestales en Victoria de febrero de 2009		70 664
5	Chinese (zh) 2009年维多利亚森林大火		53 054
6	French (fr) Incendies de végétation du Victoria de 2009		48 129
7	Polish (pl) Pożary buszu w Wiktorii (2009)		46 109
8	Japanese (ja) 2009年ビクトリア州森林火災		43 761
9	Russian (ru) Лесные пожары в Австралии (2009)		41 715
10	Swedish (sv) Skogsbränderna i Australien 2009		26 420

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) Black Saturday bushfires		8 978
2	Simple English (simple) 2009 Victorian bushfires		640
3	Chinese (zh) 2009年维多利亚森林大火		274
4	German (de) Buschfeuer in Victoria 2009		122
5	Spanish (es) Incendios forestales en Victoria de febrero de 2009		119
6	Japanese (ja) 2009年ビクトリア州森林火災		107
7	Russian (ru) Лесные пожары в Австралии (2009)		83
8	French (fr) Incendies de végétation du Victoria de 2009		75
9	Norwegian (no) Skogbrannene i Australia 2009		59
10	Polish (pl) Pożary buszu w Wiktorii (2009)		48

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black Saturday bushfires		650
2	Simple English (simple) 2009 Victorian bushfires		74
3	German (de) Buschfeuer in Victoria 2009		73
4	French (fr) Incendies de végétation du Victoria de 2009		52
5	Chinese (zh) 2009年维多利亚森林大火		36
6	Polish (pl) Pożary buszu w Wiktorii (2009)		34
7	Spanish (es) Incendios forestales en Victoria de febrero de 2009		33
8	Russian (ru) Лесные пожары в Австралии (2009)		33
9	Norwegian (no) Skogbrannene i Australia 2009		31
10	Vietnamese (vi) Cháy rừng tại Victoria 2009		28

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	Spanish (es) Incendios forestales en Victoria de febrero de 2009		2
2	English (en) Black Saturday bushfires		1
3	Finnish (fi) Australian maastopalot 2009		1
4	Hindi (hi) ऑस्ट्रेलिया मे जंगली आग २००९		1
5	Chinese (zh) 2009年维多利亚森林大火		1
6	Arabic (ar) حرائق أحراش فكتوريا (2009)		0
7	Danish (da) Bushbrandene i Australien 2009		0
8	German (de) Buschfeuer in Victoria 2009		0
9	Persian (fa) آتش‌سوزی شنبه سیاه		0
10	French (fr) Incendies de végétation du Victoria de 2009		0

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

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