Beslan school siege

Quality:

Beslan school siege - 2004 terrorist attack in North Ossetia, Russian Federation. Article “Beslan school siege” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7780^th most popular in all topics.

The 7661^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7923^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 7433^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Beslan school siege”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2928 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7661^st place).

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2548 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2894 in September 2025
• Global: #4 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9640 in March 2026
• Global: #203 in September 2019

There are 43 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	English (en) Beslan school siege		100
2	Russian (ru) Террористический акт в Беслане		100
3	Turkish (tr) Beslan Katliamı		100
4	Portuguese (pt) Massacre de Beslan		100
5	Esperanto (eo) Terorisma atako en Beslano		100
6	Armenian (hy) Բեսլանի ահաբեկչական հարձակում		95.5556
7	Ukrainian (uk) Терористичний акт у Беслані		86.5556
8	Serbian (sr) Терористички напад у Беслану		74.5081
9	Danish (da) Terrorangrebet i Beslan		73.9288
10	Italian (it) Strage di Beslan		67.9271

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Террористический акт в Беслане		15 206 129
2	English (en) Beslan school siege		9 881 461
3	Japanese (ja) ベスラン学校占拠事件		1 009 722
4	Polish (pl) Atak terrorystyczny na szkołę w Biesłanie		997 683
5	Italian (it) Strage di Beslan		992 355
6	German (de) Geiselnahme von Beslan		899 599
7	Spanish (es) Masacre de la escuela de Beslán		689 109
8	French (fr) Prise d'otages de Beslan		598 440
9	Chinese (zh) 别斯兰人质危机		454 603
10	Turkish (tr) Beslan Katliamı		322 072

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) Beslan school siege		50 913
2	Russian (ru) Террористический акт в Беслане		42 885
3	German (de) Geiselnahme von Beslan		3 188
4	Japanese (ja) ベスラン学校占拠事件		2 603
5	Polish (pl) Atak terrorystyczny na szkołę w Biesłanie		2 213
6	Italian (it) Strage di Beslan		2 113
7	Spanish (es) Masacre de la escuela de Beslán		1 763
8	Turkish (tr) Beslan Katliamı		1 610
9	French (fr) Prise d'otages de Beslan		1 601
10	Chinese (zh) 别斯兰人质危机		1 445

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Beslan school siege		896
2	Russian (ru) Террористический акт в Беслане		408
3	German (de) Geiselnahme von Beslan		197
4	Italian (it) Strage di Beslan		151
5	French (fr) Prise d'otages de Beslan		139
6	Polish (pl) Atak terrorystyczny na szkołę w Biesłanie		105
7	Hebrew (he) משבר בני הערובה בבסלאן		82
8	Chinese (zh) 别斯兰人质危机		72
9	Japanese (ja) ベスラン学校占拠事件		71
10	Dutch (nl) Gijzeling in Beslan in september 2004		64

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) Beslan school siege		8
2	Azerbaijani (az) Beslanda terror aktı (2004)		2
3	Polish (pl) Atak terrorystyczny na szkołę w Biesłanie		2
4	Vietnamese (vi) Vụ bắt giữ con tin trường học Beslan		2
5	Spanish (es) Masacre de la escuela de Beslán		1
6	Basque (eu) Beslango eskolako sarraskia		1
7	Finnish (fi) Beslanin koulukaappaus		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Beszláni túszdráma		1
9	Italian (it) Strage di Beslan		1
10	Japanese (ja) ベスラン学校占拠事件		1

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

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