West Nile virus

Quality:

West Nile virus - species of virus. This taxon is the 820^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 947^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “West Nile virus” in Simple English Wikipedia has 67.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 947^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 820^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4168^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “West Nile virus” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4168^th place) and written by 11 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 801 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

West Nile virus is on the 947^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 820^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 34 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1746 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #340 in May 2016
• Global: #4689 in August 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3101 in March 2020
• Global: #1641 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, 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	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Virus Zapadnog Nila		100
2	English (en) West Nile virus		97.9661
3	German (de) West-Nil-Virus		85.3326
4	Catalan (ca) Virus del Nil occidental		76.6486
5	Serbian (sr) Вирус Западног Нила		75.7443
6	Simple English (simple) West Nile virus		67.8297
7	Japanese (ja) ウエストナイルウイルス		57.8247
8	French (fr) Virus du Nil occidental		41.0941
9	Polish (pl) Wirus Zachodniego Nilu		39.7833
10	Greek (el) Ιός του Δυτικού Νείλου		33.8308

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) West Nile virus		6 907 135
2	German (de) West-Nil-Virus		1 312 139
3	Italian (it) Virus del Nilo occidentale		1 119 015
4	Spanish (es) Virus del Nilo Occidental		988 186
5	French (fr) Virus du Nil occidental		534 919
6	Russian (ru) Вирус лихорадки Западного Нила		425 807
7	Portuguese (pt) Vírus do Nilo Ocidental		238 905
8	Chinese (zh) 西尼羅河病毒		161 450
9	Dutch (nl) Westnijlvirus		124 851
10	Arabic (ar) فيروس غرب النيل		108 196

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		17 928
2	German (de) West-Nil-Virus		8 700
3	Finnish (fi) Länsi-Niilin virus		814
4	Spanish (es) Virus del Nilo Occidental		787
5	French (fr) Virus du Nil occidental		724
6	Russian (ru) Вирус лихорадки Западного Нила		548
7	Italian (it) Virus del Nilo occidentale		480
8	Chinese (zh) 西尼羅河病毒		366
9	Japanese (ja) ウエストナイルウイルス		152
10	Persian (fa) ویروس نیل غربی		131

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		161
2	English (en) West Nile virus		110
3	Italian (it) Virus del Nilo occidentale		100
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		29
9	Chinese (zh) 西尼羅河病毒		27
10	Serbian (sr) Вирус Западног Нила		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	German (de) West-Nil-Virus		3
2	Arabic (ar) فيروس غرب النيل		1
3	Catalan (ca) Virus del Nil occidental		1
4	Dutch (nl) Westnijlvirus		1
5	Romanian (ro) Virusul West Nile		1
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Virus Zapadnog Nila		1
7	Simple English (simple) West Nile virus		1
8	Serbian (sr) Вирус Западног Нила		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Virus Tây sông Nile		1
10	Greek (el) Ιός του Δυτικού Νείλου		0

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

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