Virus

Quality:

Virus - non-cellular, submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. This taxon is the 3^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 48^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Virus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 82.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 39 references and 16 sections.

This article has the best quality in Polish 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 1138^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 926^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 48^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 514^th most popular in all topics.

The 721^st most popular in AI.

The 3^rd most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 841^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5657^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Virus”, its content was written by 84 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (926^th place) and edited by 7119 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (721^st place).

Virus is on the 48^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 3^rd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 392 times in Simple English Wikipedia (6990^th place) and cited 37548 times in all languages (4354^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #32 in March 2020
• Global: #8 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #196 in March 2020
• Global: #12 in March 2020

There are 54 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	Polish (pl) Wirusy		100
2	Dutch (nl) Virus (biologie)		100
3	Arabic (ar) فيروس		100
4	Indonesian (id) Virus		100
5	Hungarian (hu) Vírus		100
6	Armenian (hy) Վիրուսներ		100
7	Catalan (ca) Virus		100
8	Vietnamese (vi) Virus		99.5491
9	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		99.476
10	Russian (ru) Вирусы		98.4362

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Virus		31 705 672
2	Spanish (es) Virus		22 800 454
3	Russian (ru) Вирусы		8 828 570
4	German (de) Viren		6 616 113
5	Portuguese (pt) Vírus		5 889 163
6	Japanese (ja) ウイルス		5 214 661
7	Indonesian (id) Virus		4 708 211
8	French (fr) Virus		4 605 697
9	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		3 874 692
10	Polish (pl) Wirusy		3 143 047

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) Virus		68 798
2	Russian (ru) Вирусы		15 619
3	Spanish (es) Virus		15 023
4	Chinese (zh) 病毒		6 117
5	Japanese (ja) ウイルス		5 996
6	German (de) Viren		5 187
7	Portuguese (pt) Vírus		4 078
8	French (fr) Virus		3 673
9	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		3 552
10	Simple English (simple) Virus		3 301

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Virus		1 303
2	German (de) Viren		564
3	French (fr) Virus		423
4	Spanish (es) Virus		391
5	Russian (ru) Вирусы		334
6	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		282
7	Dutch (nl) Virus (biologie)		236
8	Portuguese (pt) Vírus		234
9	Hebrew (he) נגיף		206
10	Chinese (zh) 病毒		193

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	Italian (it) Virus (biologia)		4
2	English (en) Virus		2
3	Catalan (ca) Virus		1
4	Persian (fa) ویروس		1
5	French (fr) Virus		1
6	Hungarian (hu) Vírus		1
7	Russian (ru) Вирусы		1
8	Slovak (sk) Vírus		1
9	Arabic (ar) فيروس		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Viruslar		0

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

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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