2012 phenomenon

Quality:

2012 phenomenon - eschatological beliefs surrounding 21 December 2012. Article “2012 phenomenon” in English Wikipedia has 96 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 269 references and 31 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 891^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 6526^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1627^th most popular in all topics.

The 7290^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “2012 phenomenon”, its content was written by 1023 registered users of English Wikipedia (6526^th place) and edited by 3000 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7290^th place).

The article is cited 928 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3869 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #23 in December 2012
• Global: #6 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1 in December 2012
• Global: #1 in December 2012

There are 40 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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) 2012-fenomenet		100
2	English (en) 2012 phenomenon		95.981
3	Chinese (zh) 2012年現象		95.4238
4	Russian (ru) Конец света (2012)		95.1611
5	Polish (pl) Fenomen roku 2012		92.9533
6	Vietnamese (vi) Hiện tượng 2012		92.4137
7	Malay (ms) Fenomena 2012		86.6667
8	French (fr) Prédictions pour décembre 2012		80.2915
9	Indonesian (id) Fenomena 2012		79.3418
10	Arabic (ar) ظاهرة 2012		76.1547

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2012 phenomenon		48 252 575
2	Japanese (ja) 2012年人類滅亡説		6 298 603
3	Italian (it) Profezie sul 21 dicembre 2012		4 382 267
4	French (fr) Prédictions pour décembre 2012		3 994 821
5	Russian (ru) Конец света (2012)		3 849 100
6	Spanish (es) Fenómeno de 2012		2 964 079
7	Portuguese (pt) Fenômeno 2012		1 366 804
8	Chinese (zh) 2012年現象		1 015 259
9	Dutch (nl) 2012-fenomeen		557 897
10	Vietnamese (vi) Hiện tượng 2012		538 165

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) 2012 phenomenon		22 552
2	Russian (ru) Конец света (2012)		7 302
3	Spanish (es) Fenómeno de 2012		2 781
4	Chinese (zh) 2012年現象		1 845
5	Japanese (ja) 2012年人類滅亡説		1 150
6	Italian (it) Profezie sul 21 dicembre 2012		1 143
7	Polish (pl) Fenomen roku 2012		893
8	French (fr) Prédictions pour décembre 2012		873
9	Portuguese (pt) Fenômeno 2012		817
10	Persian (fa) پدیده ۲۰۱۲		634

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2012 phenomenon		1 023
2	French (fr) Prédictions pour décembre 2012		257
3	Italian (it) Profezie sul 21 dicembre 2012		255
4	Russian (ru) Конец света (2012)		162
5	Spanish (es) Fenómeno de 2012		127
6	Chinese (zh) 2012年現象		123
7	Japanese (ja) 2012年人類滅亡説		88
8	Dutch (nl) 2012-fenomeen		74
9	Czech (cs) Předpovědi konce světa v roce 2012		73
10	Polish (pl) Fenomen roku 2012		73

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) Profezie sul 21 dicembre 2012		3
2	Chinese (zh) 2012年現象		2
3	Azerbaijani (az) 2012-ci il fenomeni		1
4	Finnish (fi) 2012-ilmiö		1
5	French (fr) Prédictions pour décembre 2012		1
6	Korean (ko) 2012년 종말론		1
7	Romanian (ro) Apocalipsa din 21 decembrie 2012		1
8	Russian (ru) Конец света (2012)		1
9	Swedish (sv) 2012-fenomen		1
10	Tamil (ta) 2012 நிகழ்வு		1

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

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