Battle of Yorktown (1781)

Quality:

Siege of Yorktown - siege, part of American Revolutionary War. This event is the 424^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 58^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article "Battle of Yorktown (1781)" in Simple English Wikipedia has 54.8 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 46 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2937^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1736^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 58^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 424^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8204^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Battle of Yorktown (1781)", its content was written by 59 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1736^th place) and edited by 2089 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Siege of Yorktown is on the 58^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 424^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 25 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3698 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #32 in December 2017
• Global: #1806 in December 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #556 in October 2017
• Global: #2895 in July 2020

There are 37 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Siege of Yorktown		100
2	Chinese (zh) 約克鎮圍城戰役		97.1376
3	Vietnamese (vi) Cuộc vây hãm Yorktown		65.1014
4	Simple English (simple) Battle of Yorktown (1781)		54.7501
5	Finnish (fi) Yorktownin piiritys		38.0196
6	Arabic (ar) معركة يوركتاون		34.0498
7	Indonesian (id) Pengepungan Yorktown		33.8431
8	Persian (fa) محاصره یورک‌تاون (۱۷۸۱)		32.2678
9	Ukrainian (uk) Облога Йорктауна		30.7004
10	Russian (ru) Осада Йорктауна		26.3028

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Siege of Yorktown		10 401 987
2	German (de) Schlacht bei Yorktown		648 188
3	Spanish (es) Batalla de Yorktown (1781)		556 143
4	French (fr) Bataille de Yorktown		531 988
5	Japanese (ja) ヨークタウンの戦い		224 862
6	Polish (pl) Oblężenie Yorktown		159 404
7	Italian (it) Battaglia di Yorktown		151 985
8	Chinese (zh) 約克鎮圍城戰役		145 066
9	Simple English (simple) Battle of Yorktown (1781)		119 045
10	Russian (ru) Осада Йорктауна		84 165

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) Siege of Yorktown		43 495
2	Spanish (es) Batalla de Yorktown (1781)		2 823
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Yorktown		2 759
4	French (fr) Bataille de Yorktown		2 163
5	Japanese (ja) ヨークタウンの戦い		1 149
6	Italian (it) Battaglia di Yorktown		912
7	Chinese (zh) 約克鎮圍城戰役		910
8	Simple English (simple) Battle of Yorktown (1781)		541
9	Russian (ru) Осада Йорктауна		391
10	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Yorktown		371

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Siege of Yorktown		1 103
2	French (fr) Bataille de Yorktown		161
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Yorktown		126
4	Italian (it) Battaglia di Yorktown		67
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Yorktown (1781)		64
6	Simple English (simple) Battle of Yorktown (1781)		59
7	Hebrew (he) המצור על יורקטאון		41
8	Norwegian (no) Beleiringen av Yorktown		41
9	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Yorktown (1781)		36
10	Hungarian (hu) Yorktowni csata		35

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) Siege of Yorktown		6
2	Russian (ru) Осада Йорктауна		2
3	Bulgarian (bg) Обсада на Йорктаун		1
4	Spanish (es) Batalla de Yorktown (1781)		1
5	French (fr) Bataille de Yorktown		1
6	Arabic (ar) معركة يوركتاون		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Yorktaunun mühasirəsi		0
8	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Yorktown (1781)		0
9	Czech (cs) Bitva u Yorktownu (1781)		0
10	Danish (da) Belejringen af Yorktown		0

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

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