West Nile virus

Quality:

West Nile virus - species of virus. This taxon is the 828^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 813^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “West Nile virus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 71.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 42 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 813^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 828^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8963^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 6425^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “West Nile virus” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (6425^th place) and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “West Nile virus”, its content was written by 15 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 802 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

West Nile virus is on the 813^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 828^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 34 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1766 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #340 in May 2016
• Global: #4688 in August 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3098 in March 2020
• Global: #1728 in August 2012

There are 34 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	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Virus Zapadnog Nila		100
2	English (en) West Nile virus		98.2203
3	German (de) West-Nil-Virus		84.3808
4	Catalan (ca) Virus del Nil occidental		76.5738
5	Serbian (sr) Вирус Западног Нила		76.1933
6	Simple English (simple) West Nile virus		71.698
7	Japanese (ja) ウエストナイルウイルス		58.335
8	French (fr) Virus du Nil occidental		41.2439
9	Polish (pl) Wirus Zachodniego Nilu		40.9726
10	Italian (it) Virus del Nilo occidentale		36.8875

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) West Nile virus		6 658 665
2	German (de) West-Nil-Virus		1 232 314
3	Italian (it) Virus del Nilo occidentale		969 017
4	Spanish (es) Virus del Nilo Occidental		938 309
5	French (fr) Virus du Nil occidental		517 149
6	Russian (ru) Вирус лихорадки Западного Нила		351 922
7	Portuguese (pt) Vírus do Nilo Ocidental		235 540
8	Chinese (zh) 西尼羅河病毒		155 308
9	Dutch (nl) Westnijlvirus		118 901
10	Arabic (ar) فيروس غرب النيل		105 662

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) West Nile virus		17 856
2	Spanish (es) Virus del Nilo Occidental		6 680
3	German (de) West-Nil-Virus		3 337
4	Italian (it) Virus del Nilo occidentale		1 230
5	French (fr) Virus du Nil occidental		1 053
6	Simple English (simple) West Nile virus		770
7	Russian (ru) Вирус лихорадки Западного Нила		705
8	Chinese (zh) 西尼羅河病毒		510
9	Portuguese (pt) Vírus do Nilo Ocidental		267
10	Romanian (ro) Virusul West Nile		244

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) West-Nil-Virus		157
2	Italian (it) Virus del Nilo occidentale		105
3	English (en) West Nile virus		96
4	Russian (ru) Вирус лихорадки Западного Нила		62
5	Spanish (es) Virus del Nilo Occidental		56
6	Dutch (nl) Westnijlvirus		45
7	Portuguese (pt) Vírus do Nilo Ocidental		30
8	Japanese (ja) ウエストナイルウイルス		28
9	Chinese (zh) 西尼羅河病毒		27
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Se Nî-lô-hô pēⁿ-to̍k		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	Serbian (sr) Вирус Западног Нила		3
2	English (en) West Nile virus		2
3	Portuguese (pt) Vírus do Nilo Ocidental		1
4	Simple English (simple) West Nile virus		1
5	Arabic (ar) فيروس غرب النيل		0
6	Catalan (ca) Virus del Nil occidental		0
7	German (de) West-Nil-Virus		0
8	Greek (el) Ιός του Δυτικού Νείλου		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Okcidentnila viruso		0
10	Spanish (es) Virus del Nilo Occidental		0

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

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