Day of the Dead

Quality:

Day of the Dead - Mesoamerican and South American festival. This event is the 36^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 271^st most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Day of the Dead” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8904^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 271^st most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1312^th most popular in all topics.

The 7171^st most popular in AI.

The 36^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6180^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Day of the Dead”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8904^th place) and edited by 2977 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7171^st place).

Day of the Dead is on the 271^st place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 36^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3453 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #40 in November 2017
• Global: #308 in October 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2785 in October 2020
• Global: #24 in October 2013

There are 44 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	English (en) Day of the Dead		80.8747
2	Spanish (es) Día de Muertos		78.9628
3	French (fr) Jour des morts (Mexique)		52.2722
4	Portuguese (pt) Dia dos Mortos		47.198
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Día de Muertos		45.0406
6	Polish (pl) Dzień Zmarłych		40.6046
7	Dutch (nl) Dag van de Doden		38.4273
8	Finnish (fi) Kuolleiden päivä		36.9147
9	Azerbaijani (az) Ölülər Günü		36.3742
10	Estonian (et) Mehhiko surnutepäev		35.7714

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Day of the Dead		41 496 904
2	Spanish (es) Día de Muertos		25 570 095
3	Portuguese (pt) Dia dos Mortos		2 479 533
4	German (de) Tag der Toten		2 382 721
5	French (fr) Jour des morts (Mexique)		2 261 556
6	Russian (ru) День мёртвых		1 399 057
7	Japanese (ja) 死者の日 (メキシコ)		1 168 241
8	Dutch (nl) Dag van de Doden		692 197
9	Chinese (zh) 亡灵节		681 227
10	Polish (pl) Dzień Zmarłych		607 464

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) Day of the Dead		48 771
2	Spanish (es) Día de Muertos		15 400
3	German (de) Tag der Toten		4 704
4	Japanese (ja) 死者の日 (メキシコ)		3 521
5	French (fr) Jour des morts (Mexique)		3 479
6	Russian (ru) День мёртвых		3 339
7	Chinese (zh) 亡灵节		3 123
8	Portuguese (pt) Dia dos Mortos		2 960
9	Italian (it) Giorno dei morti (America)		1 601
10	Dutch (nl) Dag van de Doden		1 147

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Day of the Dead		1 141
2	Spanish (es) Día de Muertos		562
3	French (fr) Jour des morts (Mexique)		168
4	German (de) Tag der Toten		151
5	Dutch (nl) Dag van de Doden		111
6	Portuguese (pt) Dia dos Mortos		85
7	Italian (it) Giorno dei morti (America)		69
8	Russian (ru) День мёртвых		69
9	Hebrew (he) יום המתים		58
10	Polish (pl) Dzień Zmarłych		48

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	Spanish (es) Día de Muertos		5
2	English (en) Day of the Dead		2
3	German (de) Tag der Toten		1
4	Italian (it) Giorno dei morti (America)		1
5	Turkish (tr) Ölüler Günü		1
6	Arabic (ar) يوم الموتى		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Ölülər Günü		0
8	Belarusian (be) Дзень мёртвых		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Ден на мъртвите		0
10	Catalan (ca) Dia de Morts		0

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

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In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Manon Bannerman, Black, List of European countries, XXXTentacion, Jeffrey Epstein, Megan Skiendiel, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Katseye, List of people who have walked on the Moon, Golden Edge.

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