Bento Rodrigues dam disaster

Quality:

Bento Rodrigues dam disaster - iron ore tailings dam failure in Brazil, disaster which occurred on 5 November 2015. Article “Bento Rodrigues dam disaster” in Simple English Wikipedia has 48.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Bento Rodrigues dam disaster”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 355 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 332 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #209 in July 2021
• Global: #367 in November 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7020 in July 2021
• Global: #2870 in January 2019

There are 12 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	Portuguese (pt) Rompimento de barragem em Mariana		84.9139
2	English (en) Mariana dam disaster		81.9388
3	Chinese (zh) 班托羅德里格斯水壩災難		68.4948
4	Simple English (simple) Bento Rodrigues dam disaster		48.3113
5	German (de) Dammbruch von Bento Rodrigues		44.1614
6	Spanish (es) Catástrofe de las represas de Bento Rodrigues		40.641
7	Serbian (sr) Катастрофа на јаловишту Бенто Родригес		31.119
8	French (fr) Rupture de barrages de Bento Rodrigues		30.5952
9	Arabic (ar) كارثة سد بينتو رودريغس		26.3695
10	Italian (it) Disastro ambientale di Bento Rodrigues		22.0887

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Portuguese (pt) Rompimento de barragem em Mariana		1 870 125
2	English (en) Mariana dam disaster		529 025
3	Spanish (es) Catástrofe de las represas de Bento Rodrigues		65 692
4	German (de) Dammbruch von Bento Rodrigues		59 858
5	French (fr) Rupture de barrages de Bento Rodrigues		47 908
6	Italian (it) Disastro ambientale di Bento Rodrigues		20 584
7	Chinese (zh) 班托羅德里格斯水壩災難		14 371
8	Finnish (fi) Bento Rodriguesin pato-onnettomuus		4 245
9	Arabic (ar) كارثة سد بينتو رودريغس		2 185
10	Simple English (simple) Bento Rodrigues dam disaster		1 674

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Portuguese (pt) Rompimento de barragem em Mariana		6 139
2	English (en) Mariana dam disaster		2 360
3	Spanish (es) Catástrofe de las represas de Bento Rodrigues		274
4	German (de) Dammbruch von Bento Rodrigues		226
5	French (fr) Rupture de barrages de Bento Rodrigues		120
6	Italian (it) Disastro ambientale di Bento Rodrigues		89
7	Catalan (ca) Catàstrofe de les preses de Bento Rodrigues		77
8	Chinese (zh) 班托羅德里格斯水壩災難		63
9	Simple English (simple) Bento Rodrigues dam disaster		52
10	Serbian (sr) Катастрофа на јаловишту Бенто Родригес		18

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mariana dam disaster		114
2	Portuguese (pt) Rompimento de barragem em Mariana		95
3	German (de) Dammbruch von Bento Rodrigues		35
4	French (fr) Rupture de barrages de Bento Rodrigues		33
5	Italian (it) Disastro ambientale di Bento Rodrigues		29
6	Catalan (ca) Catàstrofe de les preses de Bento Rodrigues		11
7	Spanish (es) Catástrofe de las represas de Bento Rodrigues		11
8	Serbian (sr) Катастрофа на јаловишту Бенто Родригес		8
9	Chinese (zh) 班托羅德里格斯水壩災難		8
10	Finnish (fi) Bento Rodriguesin pato-onnettomuus		4

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	Arabic (ar) كارثة سد بينتو رودريغس		0
2	Catalan (ca) Catàstrofe de les preses de Bento Rodrigues		0
3	German (de) Dammbruch von Bento Rodrigues		0
4	English (en) Mariana dam disaster		0
5	Spanish (es) Catástrofe de las represas de Bento Rodrigues		0
6	Finnish (fi) Bento Rodriguesin pato-onnettomuus		0
7	French (fr) Rupture de barrages de Bento Rodrigues		0
8	Italian (it) Disastro ambientale di Bento Rodrigues		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Rompimento de barragem em Mariana		0
10	Simple English (simple) Bento Rodrigues dam disaster		0

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

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