2013 horse meat scandal

Quality:

2013 meat adulteration scandal - food scandal in Europe. Article “2013 horse meat scandal” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “2013 horse meat scandal”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 580 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #901 in March 2013
• Global: #72 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #16865 in March 2013
• Global: #7139 in February 2013

There are 16 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	French (fr) Fraude à la viande de cheval de 2013		88.4211
2	English (en) 2013 horse meat scandal		86.4804
3	German (de) Pferdefleischskandal in Europa 2013		45.3636
4	Swedish (sv) Hästköttsskandalen		43.7498
5	Indonesian (id) Skandal pencampuran daging 2013		30.1384
6	Vietnamese (vi) Vụ bê bối thịt giả 2013		27.2885
7	Estonian (et) Hobuselihaskandaal		26.8055
8	Simple English (simple) 2013 horse meat scandal		18.7558
9	Chinese (zh) 2013年欧洲马肉冒充牛肉事件		15.1848
10	Japanese (ja) 馬肉混入問題		12.6318

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2013 horse meat scandal		1 589 751
2	French (fr) Fraude à la viande de cheval de 2013		349 503
3	German (de) Pferdefleischskandal in Europa 2013		206 776
4	Swedish (sv) Hästköttsskandalen		60 543
5	Japanese (ja) 馬肉混入問題		54 962
6	Chinese (zh) 2013年欧洲马肉冒充牛肉事件		35 675
7	Arabic (ar) فضيحة لحوم الخيل		5 932
8	Indonesian (id) Skandal pencampuran daging 2013		4 815
9	Portuguese (pt) Escândalo da adulteração de carne em 2013		3 545
10	Simple English (simple) 2013 horse meat scandal		3 380

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) 2013 horse meat scandal		10 032
2	French (fr) Fraude à la viande de cheval de 2013		1 516
3	German (de) Pferdefleischskandal in Europa 2013		872
4	Chinese (zh) 2013年欧洲马肉冒充牛肉事件		522
5	Swedish (sv) Hästköttsskandalen		239
6	Japanese (ja) 馬肉混入問題		181
7	Simple English (simple) 2013 horse meat scandal		28
8	Portuguese (pt) Escândalo da adulteração de carne em 2013		20
9	Romanian (ro) Scandalul cărnii de cal în Europa, 2013		16
10	Vietnamese (vi) Vụ bê bối thịt giả 2013		8

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2013 horse meat scandal		241
2	French (fr) Fraude à la viande de cheval de 2013		143
3	German (de) Pferdefleischskandal in Europa 2013		79
4	Swedish (sv) Hästköttsskandalen		35
5	Chinese (zh) 2013年欧洲马肉冒充牛肉事件		19
6	Japanese (ja) 馬肉混入問題		14
7	Arabic (ar) فضيحة لحوم الخيل		7
8	Simple English (simple) 2013 horse meat scandal		7
9	Indonesian (id) Skandal pencampuran daging 2013		6
10	Vietnamese (vi) Vụ bê bối thịt giả 2013		6

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) 2013 horse meat scandal		3
2	Arabic (ar) فضيحة لحوم الخيل		0
3	German (de) Pferdefleischskandal in Europa 2013		0
4	Estonian (et) Hobuselihaskandaal		0
5	French (fr) Fraude à la viande de cheval de 2013		0
6	Indonesian (id) Skandal pencampuran daging 2013		0
7	Japanese (ja) 馬肉混入問題		0
8	Korean (ko) 말고기 파동		0
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Hestekjøttskandalen		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Escândalo da adulteração de carne em 2013		0

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

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