Herpes simplex

Quality:

Herpes simplex - viral disease caused by the herpes simplex virus. Article “Herpes simplex” in Simple English Wikipedia has 39.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan 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 6841^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1884^th most popular in all topics.

The 7188^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2576^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Herpes simplex” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2576^th place) and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Herpes simplex”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3019 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7188^th place).

The article is cited 35 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4617 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #294 in March 2023
• Global: #1439 in February 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #671 in July 2009
• Global: #549 in October 2012

There are 46 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	Catalan (ca) Herpes simple		100
2	English (en) Herpes		95
3	Tamil (ta) அக்கி		93.75
4	German (de) Herpes simplex		86.6667
5	Hindi (hi) सरल परिसर्प		84.2857
6	Slovenian (sl) Herpes		65.4731
7	Armenian (hy) Հասարակ հերպես		56.3319
8	French (fr) Herpès		54.1689
9	Italian (it) Herpes simplex		52.9148
10	Vietnamese (vi) Herpes đơn dạng		51.7717

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Herpes		29 664 120
2	Spanish (es) Herpes simple		10 336 295
3	German (de) Herpes simplex		6 204 158
4	Portuguese (pt) Herpes		4 458 713
5	French (fr) Herpès		4 156 016
6	Russian (ru) Простой герпес		2 014 858
7	Polish (pl) Zakażenia opryszczkowe		1 971 813
8	Japanese (ja) 単純疱疹		1 845 661
9	Arabic (ar) هربس		1 417 404
10	Persian (fa) تب‌خال		947 881

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) Herpes		23 708
2	French (fr) Herpès		4 378
3	German (de) Herpes simplex		4 313
4	Spanish (es) Herpes simple		2 747
5	Russian (ru) Простой герпес		2 626
6	Persian (fa) تب‌خال		2 076
7	Polish (pl) Zakażenia opryszczkowe		1 099
8	Chinese (zh) 单纯疱疹		1 080
9	Italian (it) Herpes simplex		996
10	Portuguese (pt) Herpes		780

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Herpes		1 245
2	German (de) Herpes simplex		402
3	French (fr) Herpès		199
4	Spanish (es) Herpes simple		192
5	Hebrew (he) הרפס		103
6	Portuguese (pt) Herpes		90
7	Polish (pl) Zakażenia opryszczkowe		57
8	Arabic (ar) هربس		47
9	Swedish (sv) Herpes simplex		45
10	Persian (fa) تب‌خال		44

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	Arabic (ar) هربس		2
2	English (en) Herpes		2
3	Catalan (ca) Herpes simple		1
4	Basque (eu) Herpes		1
5	Hindi (hi) सरल परिसर्प		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Herpesz		1
7	Lithuanian (lt) Herpesas		1
8	Simple English (simple) Herpes simplex		1
9	Slovenian (sl) Herpes		1
10	Tamil (ta) அக்கி		1

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

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