Beaufort scale

Quality:

Beaufort Scale - empirical measure describing wind speed based on observed conditions. Article "Beaufort scale" in English Wikipedia has 51.8 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 21 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Tamil Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 5284^th most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7441^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article "Beaufort scale", its content was written by 422 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1998 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 732 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4385 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1468 in September 2003
• Global: #799 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3929 in September 2017
• Global: #1332 in February 2020

There are 49 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 August 1, 2024 (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	Tamil (ta) போஃபார்ட்டு காற்றுவீச்சு அளவீடு		52.6482
2	English (en) Beaufort scale		51.8148
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Beaufortskalaen		50.8131
4	Vietnamese (vi) Thang sức gió Beaufort		50.2018
5	Croatian (hr) Beaufortova ljestvica		49.6151
6	Estonian (et) Beauforti skaala		47.5738
7	Serbian (sr) Бофорова скала		45.4072
8	German (de) Beaufortskala		42.5443
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Beaufortova skala		39.6151
10	Portuguese (pt) Escala de Beaufort		37.5437

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Beaufort scale		10 357 886
2	German (de) Beaufortskala		6 454 443
3	French (fr) Échelle de Beaufort		3 045 210
4	Dutch (nl) Schaal van Beaufort		2 756 147
5	Russian (ru) Шкала Бофорта		2 388 643
6	Polish (pl) Skala Beauforta		1 870 711
7	Spanish (es) Escala de Beaufort		1 529 117
8	Italian (it) Scala di Beaufort		1 284 177
9	Norwegian (no) Beauforts skala		1 207 605
10	Chinese (zh) 蒲福氏風級		1 033 018

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) Beaufort scale		32 890
2	Chinese (zh) 蒲福氏風級		20 544
3	German (de) Beaufortskala		20 259
4	Russian (ru) Шкала Бофорта		12 895
5	French (fr) Échelle de Beaufort		11 496
6	Polish (pl) Skala Beauforta		8 260
7	Dutch (nl) Schaal van Beaufort		5 722
8	Greek (el) Κλίμακα Μποφόρ		5 119
9	Spanish (es) Escala de Beaufort		4 604
10	Italian (it) Scala di Beaufort		4 344

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Beaufort scale		422
2	German (de) Beaufortskala		255
3	Dutch (nl) Schaal van Beaufort		138
4	French (fr) Échelle de Beaufort		125
5	Italian (it) Scala di Beaufort		80
6	Russian (ru) Шкала Бофорта		74
7	Chinese (zh) 蒲福氏風級		73
8	Norwegian (no) Beauforts skala		62
9	Polish (pl) Skala Beauforta		60
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thang sức gió Beaufort		54

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	Dutch (nl) Schaal van Beaufort		2
2	Czech (cs) Beaufortova stupnice		1
3	German (de) Beaufortskala		1
4	Hebrew (he) סולם בופורט		1
5	Italian (it) Scala di Beaufort		1
6	Serbian (sr) Бофорова скала		1
7	Swedish (sv) Beauforts skala		1
8	Turkish (tr) Beaufort rüzgâr şiddeti skalası		1
9	Arabic (ar) سلم بوفورت		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Bofort şkalası		0

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

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