Disinfectant

Quality:

Disinfectant - antimicrobial agent that is applied to non-living objects (compare: antisepsis) to reduce the number of microorganisms (unwanted germs and parasites) on them (compare:sterilization). Article “Disinfectant” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.2 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.

Since the creation of article “Disinfectant”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 794 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 33 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3427 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #589 in May 2020
• Global: #5064 in April 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12374 in March 2020
• Global: #5269 in April 2020

There are 32 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) Disinfectant		91.0051
2	Greek (el) Απολυμαντικό		66.4041
3	Indonesian (id) Disinfektan		51.4394
4	Turkish (tr) Dezenfektan		37.0356
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Dezinfekcija		36.8678
6	Persian (fa) گندزدا		34.3161
7	Malay (ms) Disinfektan		27.5499
8	Serbian (sr) Дезинфекција		26.9831
9	Catalan (ca) Desinfectant		25.7029
10	Portuguese (pt) Desinfetante		25.0528

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Disinfectant		5 063 324
2	Portuguese (pt) Desinfetante		979 665
3	Indonesian (id) Disinfektan		645 106
4	Japanese (ja) 消毒薬		376 775
5	Uzbek (uz) Dezinfeksiya		182 201
6	Chinese (zh) 消毒		177 490
7	Turkish (tr) Dezenfektan		166 300
8	Persian (fa) گندزدا		137 337
9	Dutch (nl) Ontsmettingsmiddel		130 889
10	Romanian (ro) Dezinfectare		107 054

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) Disinfectant		7 792
2	Uzbek (uz) Dezinfeksiya		1 970
3	Portuguese (pt) Desinfetante		641
4	Chinese (zh) 消毒		506
5	Indonesian (id) Disinfektan		420
6	Persian (fa) گندزدا		272
7	Japanese (ja) 消毒薬		239
8	Simple English (simple) Disinfectant		185
9	Turkish (tr) Dezenfektan		161
10	Romanian (ro) Dezinfectare		150

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Disinfectant		372
2	Portuguese (pt) Desinfetante		53
3	Dutch (nl) Ontsmettingsmiddel		35
4	Turkish (tr) Dezenfektan		29
5	Finnish (fi) Desinfiointi		28
6	Hebrew (he) חיטוי		28
7	Persian (fa) گندزدا		26
8	Japanese (ja) 消毒薬		24
9	Chinese (zh) 消毒		22
10	Hindi (hi) निस्संक्रामक		19

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) Disinfectant		1
2	Romanian (ro) Dezinfectare		1
3	Arabic (ar) مطهر		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Дезинфекция		0
5	Catalan (ca) Desinfectant		0
6	Greek (el) Απολυμαντικό		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Seninfektigo		0
8	Basque (eu) Desinfektatzaile		0
9	Persian (fa) گندزدا		0
10	Finnish (fi) Desinfiointi		0

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

On 16 March 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 98th Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan, Sinners, Jessie Buckley, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Penn, One Battle After Another, Amy Madigan, Hamnet, Timothée Chalamet.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Black, Alba Baptista, List of European countries, XXXTentacion, Golden Edge, SOLID (object-oriented design), Strait of Hormuz, Megan Skiendiel, Manon Bannerman, Chris Evans.

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information