Great Molasses Flood

Quality:

Great Molasses Flood - wave of molasses which killed 21 people in 1919 in Boston. Article “Great Molasses Flood” in Simple English Wikipedia has 65.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 9 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Great Molasses Flood” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2859^th place) and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Great Molasses Flood”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1173 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 209 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1101 in March 2025
• Global: #3110 in January 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3175 in April 2025
• Global: #6485 in January 2019

There are 27 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) Great Molasses Flood		81.7944
2	Simple English (simple) Great Molasses Flood		65.4142
3	Korean (ko) 보스턴 당밀 홍수		59.7072
4	Indonesian (id) Bencana Molase Boston		56.9834
5	Chinese (zh) 波士顿糖蜜灾难		56.0396
6	Japanese (ja) ボストン糖蜜災害		38.9222
7	Thai (th) เหตุกากน้ำตาลท่วมครั้งใหญ่		31.5701
8	Portuguese (pt) Inundação de melaço de Boston		28.7668
9	Finnish (fi) Melassikatastrofi		27.1816
10	Polish (pl) Wielka powódź melasowa		26.0507

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Great Molasses Flood		5 744 736
2	Japanese (ja) ボストン糖蜜災害		834 896
3	Russian (ru) Затопление Бостона патокой		419 899
4	German (de) Melassekatastrophe von Boston		262 397
5	French (fr) Grande inondation de mélasse de Boston		200 399
6	Italian (it) Inondazione di melassa di Boston		146 411
7	Chinese (zh) 波士顿糖蜜灾难		126 508
8	Spanish (es) Gran inundación de melaza de Boston		45 308
9	Portuguese (pt) Inundação de melaço de Boston		38 517
10	Czech (cs) Bostonská melasová tragédie		33 788

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) Great Molasses Flood		40 930
2	Japanese (ja) ボストン糖蜜災害		1 755
3	Russian (ru) Затопление Бостона патокой		1 305
4	German (de) Melassekatastrophe von Boston		1 052
5	French (fr) Grande inondation de mélasse de Boston		920
6	Italian (it) Inondazione di melassa di Boston		474
7	Chinese (zh) 波士顿糖蜜灾难		468
8	Simple English (simple) Great Molasses Flood		356
9	Spanish (es) Gran inundación de melaza de Boston		277
10	Polish (pl) Wielka powódź melasowa		253

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Great Molasses Flood		650
2	French (fr) Grande inondation de mélasse de Boston		71
3	Italian (it) Inondazione di melassa di Boston		52
4	Russian (ru) Затопление Бостона патокой		48
5	Hebrew (he) אסון הדבשה של בוסטון		46
6	German (de) Melassekatastrophe von Boston		44
7	Japanese (ja) ボストン糖蜜災害		40
8	Chinese (zh) 波士顿糖蜜灾难		36
9	Norwegian (no) Melasseulykken i Boston		32
10	Danish (da) Melasseulykken i Boston		22

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	German (de) Melassekatastrophe von Boston		2
2	English (en) Great Molasses Flood		2
3	Simple English (simple) Great Molasses Flood		2
4	Polish (pl) Wielka powódź melasowa		1
5	Chinese (zh) 波士顿糖蜜灾难		1
6	Arabic (ar) كارثة دبس بوسطن		0
7	Catalan (ca) Gran inundació de melassa de Boston		0
8	Czech (cs) Bostonská melasová tragédie		0
9	Danish (da) Melasseulykken i Boston		0
10	Spanish (es) Gran inundación de melaza de Boston		0

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

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