Disaster

Quality:

Disaster - hazard resulting in an event causing significant physical damage, destruction or death. Article “Disaster” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5169^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5546^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8028^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Disaster”, its content was written by 34 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5546^th place) and edited by 2863 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8028^th place).

The article is cited 83 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9529 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #236 in March 2008
• Global: #317 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1523 in June 2010
• Global: #5660 in March 2011

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, 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) Disaster		81.2882
2	Czech (cs) Katastrofa		46.9437
3	Spanish (es) Desastre		43.8332
4	Catalan (ca) Desastre		40.0464
5	French (fr) Catastrophe		39.3446
6	Korean (ko) 재난		37.9757
7	Japanese (ja) 災害		34.8975
8	Turkish (tr) Afet		32.9978
9	Portuguese (pt) Desastre		29.752
10	Hindi (hi) आपदा		28.6561

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Disaster		9 560 020
2	Spanish (es) Desastre		2 856 619
3	Japanese (ja) 災害		1 736 447
4	German (de) Katastrophe		1 342 725
5	French (fr) Catastrophe		1 267 930
6	Russian (ru) Катастрофа		999 502
7	Hindi (hi) आपदा		842 622
8	Polish (pl) Katastrofa		645 506
9	Thai (th) ภัยพิบัติ		450 187
10	Turkish (tr) Afet		325 282

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Polish (pl) Katastrofa		15 974
2	English (en) Disaster		7 875
3	German (de) Katastrophe		2 995
4	Japanese (ja) 災害		2 199
5	Russian (ru) Катастрофа		846
6	Turkish (tr) Afet		690
7	Spanish (es) Desastre		658
8	French (fr) Catastrophe		580
9	Chinese (zh) 灾害		550
10	Korean (ko) 재난		307

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Disaster		911
2	French (fr) Catastrophe		361
3	German (de) Katastrophe		251
4	Japanese (ja) 災害		112
5	Dutch (nl) Ramp		112
6	Spanish (es) Desastre		103
7	Turkish (tr) Afet		101
8	Russian (ru) Катастрофа		99
9	Polish (pl) Katastrofa		83
10	Czech (cs) Katastrofa		79

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	Azerbaijani (az) Fəlakət		1
2	Czech (cs) Katastrofa		1
3	Norwegian (no) Katastrofe		1
4	Arabic (ar) كارثة		0
5	Belarusian (be) Катастрофа		0
6	Catalan (ca) Desastre		0
7	Danish (da) Katastrofe		0
8	German (de) Katastrophe		0
9	English (en) Disaster		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Katastrofo		0

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information