Pollutant

Quality:

Pollutant - substance or energy source damaging to the environment. Article “Pollutant” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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 “Pollutant”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 489 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2119 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1396 in December 2019
• Global: #1851 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2280 in February 2018
• Global: #61609 in April 2008

There are 23 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) Pollutant		51.8205
2	German (de) Schadstoff		48.2831
3	Slovenian (sl) Onesnaževalo		41.9021
4	Greek (el) Ρύπος		35.8898
5	Spanish (es) Contaminante		32.9329
6	Czech (cs) Znečišťující látky		30.8529
7	Arabic (ar) ملوث		30.3671
8	Uzbek (uz) Ifloslantiruvchi modda		20.7181
9	Basque (eu) Kutsatzaile		19.8595
10	Korean (ko) 공해물질		18.2623

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pollutant		1 710 676
2	Indonesian (id) Polutan		508 388
3	German (de) Schadstoff		369 030
4	Spanish (es) Contaminante		285 062
5	Italian (it) Inquinante		58 657
6	Chinese (zh) 污染物		46 730
7	Czech (cs) Znečišťující látky		43 319
8	Hindi (hi) प्रदूषक		41 439
9	Persian (fa) آلاینده		37 749
10	Ukrainian (uk) Забруднювач		37 223

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) Pollutant		1 194
2	German (de) Schadstoff		220
3	Spanish (es) Contaminante		135
4	Chinese (zh) 污染物		131
5	Persian (fa) آلاینده		115
6	Czech (cs) Znečišťující látky		95
7	Italian (it) Inquinante		58
8	Indonesian (id) Polutan		57
9	Estonian (et) Saasteaine		37
10	Greek (el) Ρύπος		31

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Schadstoff		178
2	English (en) Pollutant		151
3	Italian (it) Inquinante		37
4	Czech (cs) Znečišťující látky		12
5	Ukrainian (uk) Забруднювач		12
6	Simple English (simple) Pollutant		11
7	Spanish (es) Contaminante		10
8	Chinese (zh) 污染物		10
9	Indonesian (id) Polutan		8
10	Lithuanian (lt) Teršalai		8

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	Basque (eu) Kutsatzaile		1
2	Arabic (ar) ملوث		0
3	Czech (cs) Znečišťující látky		0
4	German (de) Schadstoff		0
5	Greek (el) Ρύπος		0
6	English (en) Pollutant		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Poluilo		0
8	Spanish (es) Contaminante		0
9	Estonian (et) Saasteaine		0
10	Persian (fa) آلاینده		0

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

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