Chernobyl disaster

Quality:

Chernobyl disaster - 1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union. Article “Chernobyl disaster” in Simple English Wikipedia has 48.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 9 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 481^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 801^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 49^th most popular in all topics.

The 141^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1942^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2525^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 497^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 517^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Chernobyl disaster” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2525^th place) and written by 85 authors in all languages (517^th place).

Since the creation of article “Chernobyl disaster”, its content was written by 95 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (801^st place) and edited by 11415 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (141^st place).

The article is cited 83 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16921 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #42 in May 2019
• Global: #5 in June 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in May 2019
• Global: #1 in June 2019

There are 54 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	German (de) Nuklearkatastrophe von Tschernobyl		100
2	Slovak (sk) Černobyľská havária		100
3	Hungarian (hu) Csernobili atomerőmű-baleset		98.6066
4	Portuguese (pt) Acidente nuclear de Chernobil		95.2866
5	Japanese (ja) チェルノブイリ原子力発電所事故		95
6	English (en) Chernobyl disaster		94.8697
7	Thai (th) ภัยพิบัติเชียร์โนบีล		92.6593
8	Ukrainian (uk) Чорнобильська катастрофа		89.9277
9	Lithuanian (lt) Černobylio avarija		87.8536
10	Korean (ko) 체르노빌 원자력 발전소 사고		87.2531

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chernobyl disaster		108 342 638
2	Spanish (es) Accidente de Chernóbil		31 357 541
3	Russian (ru) Авария на Чернобыльской АЭС		25 849 920
4	German (de) Nuklearkatastrophe von Tschernobyl		18 508 341
5	Japanese (ja) チェルノブイリ原子力発電所事故		14 715 257
6	French (fr) Catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl		12 590 123
7	Italian (it) Disastro di Černobyl'		11 379 196
8	Portuguese (pt) Acidente nuclear de Chernobil		8 679 467
9	Polish (pl) Katastrofa w Czarnobylskiej Elektrowni Jądrowej		8 382 504
10	Chinese (zh) 切尔诺贝利核事故		5 567 948

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) Chernobyl disaster		262 818
2	German (de) Nuklearkatastrophe von Tschernobyl		54 008
3	Russian (ru) Авария на Чернобыльской АЭС		52 180
4	Spanish (es) Accidente de Chernóbil		33 972
5	French (fr) Catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl		28 194
6	Italian (it) Disastro di Černobyl'		26 664
7	Japanese (ja) チェルノブイリ原子力発電所事故		24 952
8	Persian (fa) فاجعه چرنوبیل		22 710
9	Chinese (zh) 切尔诺贝利核事故		22 085
10	Polish (pl) Katastrofa w Czarnobylskiej Elektrowni Jądrowej		12 903

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chernobyl disaster		2 762
2	German (de) Nuklearkatastrophe von Tschernobyl		1 190
3	French (fr) Catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl		825
4	Russian (ru) Авария на Чернобыльской АЭС		803
5	Italian (it) Disastro di Černobyl'		601
6	Spanish (es) Accidente de Chernóbil		571
7	Dutch (nl) Kernramp van Tsjernobyl		395
8	Chinese (zh) 切尔诺贝利核事故		364
9	Japanese (ja) チェルノブイリ原子力発電所事故		357
10	Polish (pl) Katastrofa w Czarnobylskiej Elektrowni Jądrowej		294

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) Chernobyl disaster		17
2	French (fr) Catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl		8
3	Spanish (es) Accidente de Chernóbil		7
4	Russian (ru) Авария на Чернобыльской АЭС		6
5	German (de) Nuklearkatastrophe von Tschernobyl		4
6	Polish (pl) Katastrofa w Czarnobylskiej Elektrowni Jądrowej		4
7	Chinese (zh) 切尔诺贝利核事故		4
8	Azerbaijani (az) Çernobıl faciəsi		3
9	Czech (cs) Černobylská havárie		3
10	Hungarian (hu) Csernobili atomerőmű-baleset		3

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

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