Pig War (1859)

Quality:

Pig War - confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the British Empire. This event is the 2495^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Pig War (1859)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2495^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “Pig War (1859)”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 954 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Pig War is on the 2495^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 529 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #119 in April 2018
• Global: #4629 in December 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #13128 in December 2021
• Global: #6721 in December 2021

There are 26 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) Pig War (1859)		75.5046
2	Thai (th) สงครามหมู (ค.ศ. 1859)		67.903
3	Ukrainian (uk) Свиняча війна (1859)		64.2701
4	Italian (it) Guerra del maiale		42.797
5	Norwegian (no) Grisekrigen av 1859		42.7773
6	Japanese (ja) ブタ戦争 (サンフアン諸島)		31.6331
7	Spanish (es) Guerra del Cerdo		28.6317
8	Simple English (simple) Pig War (1859)		24.7579
9	Basque (eu) Txerriaren Gerra		22.6513
10	Finnish (fi) Sikasota		21.8871

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pig War (1859)		2 032 111
2	Russian (ru) Война из-за свиньи		393 879
3	German (de) Schweinekonflikt		194 575
4	Japanese (ja) ブタ戦争 (サンフアン諸島)		125 973
5	Polish (pl) Świńska wojna		80 729
6	Spanish (es) Guerra del Cerdo		74 661
7	French (fr) Guerre du cochon		35 655
8	Hebrew (he) מלחמת החזיר		35 331
9	Arabic (ar) حرب الخنزير		28 097
10	Chinese (zh) 猪战		27 841

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) Pig War (1859)		17 352
2	Russian (ru) Война из-за свиньи		1 418
3	German (de) Schweinekonflikt		981
4	Japanese (ja) ブタ戦争 (サンフアン諸島)		877
5	Spanish (es) Guerra del Cerdo		525
6	French (fr) Guerre du cochon		396
7	Hebrew (he) מלחמת החזיר		325
8	Arabic (ar) حرب الخنزير		286
9	Polish (pl) Świńska wojna		245
10	Thai (th) สงครามหมู (ค.ศ. 1859)		187

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pig War (1859)		470
2	German (de) Schweinekonflikt		93
3	Russian (ru) Война из-за свиньи		61
4	Hebrew (he) מלחמת החזיר		43
5	Polish (pl) Świńska wojna		36
6	Italian (it) Guerra del maiale		31
7	Spanish (es) Guerra del Cerdo		25
8	French (fr) Guerre du cochon		25
9	Chinese (zh) 猪战		19
10	Vietnamese (vi) Cuộc chiến Con lợn		18

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) Pig War (1859)		7
2	Japanese (ja) ブタ戦争 (サンフアン諸島)		1
3	Portuguese (pt) Guerra do Porco		1
4	Thai (th) สงครามหมู (ค.ศ. 1859)		1
5	Arabic (ar) حرب الخنزير		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Donuz müharibəsi		0
7	Danish (da) Svinekrigen (1859)		0
8	German (de) Schweinekonflikt		0
9	Spanish (es) Guerra del Cerdo		0
10	Basque (eu) Txerriaren Gerra		0

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

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